{"id":179636,"date":"2026-03-30T13:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/179636\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T13:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:34:10","slug":"hells-kitchens-biryani-specialist-hyderabadi-zaiqa-expands-on-9th-avenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/179636\/","title":{"rendered":"Hell\u2019s Kitchen\u2019s Biryani Specialist Hyderabadi Zaiqa Expands on 9th Avenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hyderabadi Zaiqa, the popular W52nd Street restaurant known for its biryani, is on a hot streak.\u00a0Last year, it <a href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/post\/hells-kitchens-finest-chalong-and-hyderabadi-zaiqa-join-the-michelin-guides-elite-nyc-roster\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">made the Michelin Guide list<\/a> and opened a location on Lexington Avenue that quickly became a favorite of Zohran Mamdani as he campaigned for mayor. Now, the restaurant has expanded to a much larger space just across the street from the quaint storefront that started it all.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"1250\" height=\"851\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/hyderabadi-zaiqa-expansion-978.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-136863\"\/>Hyderabadi Zaiqa has expanded to a much larger space on 9th Avenue. Photo: Brennan LaBrie<\/p>\n<p>The new location, on 9th Avenue between W52nd and W53rd Streets, can seat about 60 people between two dining rooms and a bar \u2014 far more than its original space that will now serve takeout customers only.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Success! Your account was created and you\u2019re signed in.<br \/>Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/my-account\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">My Account<\/a> to verify and manage your account.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/post\/author\/brennan-labrie\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img alt=\"Brennan LaBrie\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Brennan-LaBrie_Headshot-768x768-1-80x80.jpg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-80 photo\" height=\"80\" width=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brennan LaBrie is a Manhattan-based multimedia journalist who originally hails from Washington State. He began reporting in elementary school, when he published a handwritten weekly paper covering local news for three years, and reported on events like the 2010 Winter Olympics for TIME For Kids. He returned to journalism in college, reporting for the school paper and his hometown newspaper during summer breaks. He also co-directed three feature documentaries, one of which received a 2021 College Emmy. He moved to New York City in 2022, and, following a stint as a server in fine dining restaurants, began freelancing for publications around the city. His favorite topics to cover are urban development, housing, education and environmental issues, and his work can be found in The Rockaway Wave and the BK Reader.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/post\/author\/brennan-labrie\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tMore by Brennan LaBrie\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hyderabadi Zaiqa, the popular W52nd Street restaurant known for its biryani, is on a hot streak.\u00a0Last year, it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,1886,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-179636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-manhattan","9":"tag-manhattan-headlines","10":"tag-manhattan-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newcomers","14":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}