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Yearning for a fresh, good cup of Americano and a hearty breakfast on a beautiful overcast Saturday morning, my wife and I drove around Fort/Kala Ghoda, Mumbai looking for a place we haven’t visited before. We stumbled upon The Pastry Café,a charming café located in a narrow by lane near Mamagoto…
The Irish proverb, ‘laughter is brightest when food is the best,’ came alive in the Slurp Cooking studio in Bangalore, when a group of foodies had a cook off organised by Licious, a company who has identified the need for food lovers to have fresh meat and poultry on their plates. The smell of te…
There is something unique about eating the street food on a street side; the satisfaction and contentment that can never come by eating those chaats and other stuff in a restaurant. The ambience plays a vital role, and when I was invited to Nukkadwala, near Vatika City in Gurgaon, this was the pr…
Last sunday I attended the launch of one of the most awaited restaurants in Mumbai. From the house of Massive Restaurants with the effervescent Zorawar Kalra at the helm of affairs comes Pa Pa Ya, his take on modern Pan Asian food. This restaurant combines elements of Molecular cuisines and displ…
Oktoberfest! That Bavarian tradition of beer and meats and all things fun, has caught up well in India over the last few years. India being primarily a beer guzzling nation, has adopted it well and many restaurants are doing throwing ‘specials’ throughout the month of October living up to the Okt…
The first thing that strikes me as I walk into Latest Recipe restaurant of Le Meridien, Gurgaon for the Shahjahanabad Food Festival is how the tables have turned for Osama Jalali. Osama, who is a seasoned food critic/reviewer and has over 2,000 reviews in his kitty, not only loves to write about…
As I drove towards The Westin, Goregaon, on a Friday night, to review their special Vegetarian Festival featuring Holi Food from four different temple cities of India, I asked myself, why on earth would I want to go to one of the best Indian restaurants in Mumbai, on a Friday night, to try out ve…
There was a time when home makers around the country would wait for Sunday mornings and would sit religiously in front of their TV sets to catch their favourite show Khana Khazana. The program, in a certain way, brought about a revolution in the way we used to see and know food. Cuisines that were…
A few days back, I revisited one of my favorite Japanese food restaurants in Mumbai, Shiro, for the review of their new menu launch. As always, the sense of space one feels when you enter the sprawling restaurant is amazing. The tastefully done up interior with the huge statue of Buddha completes…
Years back when life was simple, heart was full of hopes and mind full of dreams, pockets were always near-empty, the coveted dress was just out of reach and Five Star dining was a big deal for a small town girl like me, my hostel friend and I used to save and scrounge all month…
One of the much favored Chinese restaurants of Mumbai, Ming Yang located at Taj Lands’ End, Bandra reopens again in a brand new avatar. Mumbai Food Freak was there at its media preview to check it out. The first thing that impresses you upon entering the massive first floor restaurant is the open…
This was a first for me – an African food pop-up. While I had tried Moroccan food often, the rest of Africa remained a mystery. I believe, except for its geographical location in the continent, Moroccan food is way different than rest of Africa because of its influences from the Arabs, Mediterran…
