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Rivaayat : Traditions While I have visited Lucknow some years ago, the Lucknow I really know is through the movies set in Lucknow; the culture, the music, the dances and its courtesans, the nawabs and their affluence. For me, Lucknow means the mischief of Sadhana in Mere Mehboob, the naivete of B…
Japanese cuisine is one of my favourite cuisines probably because the freshness and earthiness of its ingredients appeal to the Sagittarian in me. This was one festival I was not inclined to miss.. Hence, inspite of a busy schedule, I worked this review into my calendar. We arrived promptly in ti…
A recent press release on Indian food freak caught my attention which referred to a Cherry Blossom Japanese food festival at the very beautiful hotel located close to the international airport – The Leela. Leela Palace in Delhi is well known for its very popular Japanese restaurant, Megu, but I h…
La buona cucinar ende allegri – Laughter is brightest where food is best You wake up in the morning and you feel it in your bones. It is going to be that sort of day; when sun will shine but not too scorchingly, breeze will flow but not too strongly, time will pass but not…
Kipos (Greek) : a garden or a tavern in a garden For me, food and romance go together – one without the other is hungry and boring! I entered Kipos with no high expectations on either front. After all, it was a continental food joint housed in a shopping mall on one of the busiest…
Villa Vandre is a relatively new entrant to the Bandra food scene. Those of you who know Bandra well must also be aware of the many small eateries throughout the area but not every eatery there can boast of a chef who is driven by the passion that is shown by Chef Aloysius (fondly called…
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.…
Andheri East area in Mumbai has the distinction of having the maximum number of five star hotels in Mumbai but somehow, the food offerings in these hotels barring a handful are not that well known. The Leela Hotel at Airport Road is one such example; despite having the world renowned Le Cirque in…
Walking distance from the Andheri Station (Eastern side), in the lanes of Teligali, lies this lounge cum restaurant which recently opened under a new management with a new name – Zouk (Earlier, part of the hotel-Imperial Palace)– and a completely revamped menu. I went there on the 1st of April wh…
Earlier this year, right before the beef ban and all its related hoopla hit the press, we visited Bandra’s Smokehouse Deli to try out their new menu. While I’ve been to Smokehouse on a couple of occasions before and loved their hand drawn walls, the bread baskets and their cheesecakes, their opti…
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.
