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“East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet” – so claimed Rudyard Kipling but a new restaurant chain in Mumbai is set to bring these two extremes together through their new Chinese-Mexican restaurant chain called Loco Chino.
Despite its location – in the casual hangout Epicuria, famous for its food court and fast food joints – Fio Cookhouse has maintained its fine dine appeal. We are introduced to the chef’s winter menu on a sunny December afternoon. I am led from the pebbled patio, with al fresco seating, into luxe…
My earliest memories of a biryani are of how I used to devour the large Handi my dad’s friend in Surat used to bring every Eid. I swear it was the most delectable, scrumptious biryani I have ever had. I have searched for a similar one for ages and while I have enjoyed quite a…
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…
If I were to choose my favourite cuisine, it would most certainly be Japanese and if I were to choose my favourite city in India to eat in, it would most certainly be Delhi.
The area of Lower Parel is fast developing into a very popular restaurant and pub area in Mumbai. Due to a heavy concentration of major corporate offices, this area has become a popular hangout for people post office hours.
My search for good Lal Maas ended here! The meat pieces were chunky and moist, ginger-garlic tasted fresh and the gravy was red not only in color but the flavors were fiery too.
April Rain! A name that makes you wonder why a restaurant is named so. I asked Chef Milind Sovani about the same and he said he didn’t want run-of-the-mill restaurant names.
The beverage culture in the Indian gastronomy scene was quite limited till the last decade. With evolving tastes, the drink offerings have also expanded and more and more restaurants are experimenting with their beverage line up – in some cases, even daring to create a menu that fits around an en…
Having received an invitation to try food at an eatery going by the name “Smoked Biryani House”, I was intrigued as to why smoked would have been prefixed to Biryani! I was told that the joint serves authentic Hyderabadi cuisine and I was eager to test the claim Hyderabadi being one of my favorit…
Go Panda means baby panda in Japanese. There was a time when there was an immense craze among the Japanese for the Panda especially when China lent its two pandas to the Japanese zoo. It has immense importance in the spiritual philosophy and is a much revered animal as a symbol of abundance and p…
As biting as the name sounds, never have I been home-serviced to such perfection as I was by Bite Club – so much so that I still am reeling under it (or should I say reeled in by it?) The ease of use starts from the word “go”. Bite Club’s simple yet attractive and efficacious…
