For years Hema’s Kitchen, Hema Potla’s homey Indian restaurant, drew flocks of fans to a tiny, cramped storefront where food was often hustled out of the kitchen by the beaming proprietor herself. But ...

There’s a playpen in the corner of Hema’s Kitchen, a tiny, ten-year-old Indian restaurant on the edge of Rogers Park, where chef-owner Hema Potla keeps a careful eye on her two grandsons, Rahul and ...