Last year in May, we got a tip that the crew of Somebody Feed Phil—an American television travel documentary series on Netflix, presented by Philip Rosenthal—was in the city to shoot an episode. We were told sternly by every reference we contacted that he wasn’t doing interviews. We tried our luck one last time by writing an email to an ID shared by Chintan Pandya of Dhamaka Restaurant in New York, who had shot with the crew earlier that day at Soam, Babulnath.

Richard Rosenthal, Phil’s brother and a three-time Emmy Award-winning producer, who serves as showrunner and executive producer of the show, kindly invited us to watch the filming at a restaurant. The fact that the two brothers have the gift of producing compelling content is known to those familiar with the show, but watching the crew film at The Bombay Canteen was a study into what sharp filmmaking looks like.