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The first question I asked the chef as I sat down to sample the dishes at the ongoing Bengali food special in Masala Bay at Taj Land’s End was on his thought process behind a Bengali food festival when there is already an abundance of Bengali restaurants in Mumbai. The chef replied that though the…
February was coming to an end and the Mumbai evenings were once again starting to get hot and sultry – the kind where you just want to lie underneath a fan maybe with a stick of ice-cream in your hands – when I received the launch invite for Magnum’s newest flavor – the Choco Cappuccino.…
Fifteen days had passed since the summer vacations had started. Excessive work pressure and relentless travelling added to my being absent from home over long periods of time resulting in incessant complaining from the kids and a feeling of acute helplessness that any father feels in such a situa…
If you look at various websites for the most popular cuisines in the world, you’ll notice Indian food often takes the slot at number 2. In 2014, Google reported that the top three most searched ethnic cuisines were Chinese, Indian, and French. Surprisingly enough, more Brits searched for Indian f…
After a work induced break from reviews, I was finally heading to my first review in three months. I chose the Amritsari Food Festival at the Sofitel on this occasion.
Given that Parsis lived in Gujarat for several years and adopted most of their customs, it is perceived that Parsi and Gujarati food is quite similar. Except that one is purely non vegetarian while the other is the complete opposite.
A lady who happens to be the PR Manager of a highly reputed, Indian five star hotel group (with two properties next to each other in Gurgaon alone). She has left me with no option but to seek help from my readers to help me solve the puzzle she has put in front of me.
Even though we celebrate three new years in the span of a year, Parsi’s are a bit thin on the festival front. This is one of the reasons why we jump at celebrating just about anything.
Last one year has seen interesting food festivals like the Palanpuri, French, German charcuterie Malvani, Goan & Thai amongst others being hosted at the Sofitel under Chef Saha´s guidance. With each successive event, Sofitel has progressively consolidated its position as a food destination despit…
The Aperitivo menu that was put out to us by the chef at Olive was outstanding and went excellently with the beer.
“A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke”…..Rudyard Kipling The above lines might be interpreted by some as a bit of a sexist remark but they do convey the almost reverential passion that cigar aficionados seem to have for cigars…….and that kind of passion was displayed on a cold win…
The food diaspora of India is so vast that it is a mammoth task to compile a database of each and every possible regional cuisine that India has to offer. If you travel across the 13,000 plus kilometres of our country, you will find the food traditions changing almost every 200 kilometres. What i…
