But the curry house's current predicament shows that a national attachment to Indian food did not necessarily extend to the people who made it.
For those considering buying, the shifts in housing prices present a predicament.
Having so few housing choices is a predicament shared by about 100,000 Long Island young adults together with 200,000 more in the boroughs outside Manhattan and an additional 31,000 in the Hudson Valley.
Having so few housing choices is a predicament shared by about 17,700 young adults in Westchester and 1,200 young adults in Dutchess as well as 12,100 more in Rockland, Putnam, Orange, Ulster and Sullivan, an additional 100,000 on Long Island, and 200,000 more in the boroughs outside Manhattan.
I sped over to my mother-in-law's house and explained my predicament.
According to housing charity Shelter, Sanchez's predicament is symptomatic of an overheated property market and official inertia has left young people on tight budgets particularly vulnerable.
That is a significant drop which leaves many negatively and highly geared investors who bought properties in the last six months with interest-only financing in a seriously challenging predicament should the housing market not recover.
As we drove back to Alvarado's mother's house, Lopez contemplated mezcal's predicament: fated for ruin if it got its due.
