For the holiday, Kebab aur Sharab will be featuring a handful of specials, including punch amrit and halwa puri chana, with semolina halwa, fried bread, and spiced chickpea. In addition to dinner, available November 12 through 15, the Upper West Side restaurant is partnering with Tagmo in the Seaport to make mithai boxes for a collection of eight sweets ($50) with items like kaju katli (a North Indian sweet made with cashews, sugar, and cardamom) and kesar kaju pista katli (a traditional sweet made with saffron).

This elegant Hell’s Kitchen restaurant puts fine dining flourishes on Indian cuisine, with many dishes — including luscious marinated lamb chops — prepared in the tandoori oven. Vegetarian and meat-bearing curries are available including a particularly lively navratna korma with fresh paneer. There is a full bar with craft cocktails, some of them spicy.

A Punjabi restaurant that opened in August, Gulaabo, from the Baar Baar team, is offering specials for Diwali in addition to its full menu, including a chaat platter, a kebab platter, Diwali special thali ($25 vegetarian, $30 with meat), and a mithai platter of sweets.

Jackson Diner was founded in 1980, but by 1983 the typical menu of eggs and burgers had changed to an Indian one, reflecting the reinvention of this part of Jackson Heights as a South Asian shopping district. In this century it moved down the block into a much larger space and is now a favorite for its vegetable and meat curries.

Kailash Parbat is a restaurant founded in Mumbai (formerly called Bombay) in 1952, reflecting the Sindhi cuisine of what is now Pakistan. It has become an international chain. The food is strictly vegetarian, and the menu contains lots of festive snacks in addition to a marvelous spinach biryani. The dining room is filled with colorful photo murals and latticed wood.

On Sunday, November 12, Baar Baar will have a prix-fixe menu with live entertainment for $65 per person. The menu comes with an amuse bouche, appetizers, entrees, sides, dessert, chai, and mithai with vegetarian and meat-based options. That day, the restaurant also has a brunch menu with all-you-can-eat food stations, a live DJ set, and other entertainment for $45 per person.

This relaxed restaurant tucked under the BQE has a slight Bengali bent but it generally serves food from northern India. Try the mustardy goat curry from Kolkata called kosha mangsho, or the chile-laced pumpkin panch phoron, from Jharkand. Brick Lane-style English Balti curries are also available, in a space decorated with giant agrarian color photos.

From November 8 through 12, chef Surbhi Sahni will serve a five-course, prix fixe menu for Diwali with the flavors of Punjab, where she’s from, and Bengal, where her partner is from. “For this menu, I’ve picked a mix of Piali’s favorite Bengali dishes and some of my Punjabi childhood classics,” she says. It’s $85 per ticket and includes vegetarian and meat-based choices. Mithai is also available in various sizes and prices at the restaurant and online starting at $35.

The chef is from Goa, and the menu features food from that state, including several Portuguese-influenced dishes. But it also ventures beyond, including a chaat festively decorated with gold foil and coconut shrimp. The dining room is down a few steps from the street, colored blue and decorated with hanging brass lamps.