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All Greek To Me! Until now…… thanks to Skydeck Lounge in Leela, Gurgaon. Perhaps a teaser trailer of a new cuisine added to the ever changing and diverse food landscape of Gurgaon with a promise of better things to come? Welcome to Greek food delights at the Skydeck Lounge in Leela, Gurgaon – the…
I love attending wine dinners for two reasons. First of all, they are very educative and secondly, they are always enjoyable. There is the excitement of trying out wines from different parts of the world and India, and the curiosity to see how well the pairings will work, because each time there…
A few days back when I braved the rains to visit Intercontinental at Marine drive I came away a petulant hungry child. This time around I got romanced, intrigued, allured, loved and satiated. I felt young and excited. My visit to Koh for the Sriracha festival that runs upto 7th September, more th…
Some restaurants have wonderful memories attached to them. For me, Eddie’s Kitchen is one such place. I remember going to this small Chinese eatery way back in the 90’s. However, for some reason it was shut down for a long time to open under new management a couple of years ago. I have been to…
Recently The Westin Mumbai Garden City located at Goregaon area of Mumbai held a very interesting event where kids and their parents were invite to showcase the new nutritious and healthy offerings of their menu which they are planning to serve out to the business traveler on the move. The follow…
When a meal transports you straight to a little town in south-eastern Tamil Nadu, especially when it is a cuisine which has been brought back from the verge of extinction, to culinary limelight, you know it is a moment to be savoured. I encountered such a moment at The Park hotel, where I had gone…
Crystal Jade Restaurant, spanning over 10 Countries and 20 Cities, is in Central Plaza Mall on Golf Course Road in the very same premises where Hao Shi Nian Nian, a popular Chinese Restaurant, used to be housed but with a slight make over. It is spread over two floors with the second floor having…
Kafe Fontana, the all-day dining restaurant at Taj Palace, New Delhi is running a week long British Food Festival from 25th August to 1st September 2014. A special menu with few appetizers, soups, main course and dessert options has been created for this festival, which is being conducted by Dani…
Old World Hospitality, the company behind the hugely successful Indian Accent, has now launched its invitation-only private members’ club, Zehen at The Manor, New Delhi. The whole idea is that Zehen will help address each member’s health, well-being, nutritional and fitness needs; connect them wi…
Once bitten twice shy. After going through bad times at one of the pub at Vasant Vihar, I was in no mood to go through it again, and kept delaying my visit to Café Torque until I gave up to a very persistent PR person who religiously kept following up. I am so glad I…
We are all familiar with wine pairing events, but it isn’t very often that one hears of whiskey being paired with food. Though whiskey is the favourite tipple of Indians, the way we drink it is usually before dinner along with some snacks as we find the concept of pairing too engaging. While ther…
We’ve all heard the phrase ‘All Work and No Play makes Jack a Dull Boy’. Increasingly, I’ve found that many of us ‘Jack’s and ‘Jill’s’ are becoming quite dull spending as we do almost the entire day staring at our laptops on email, social media or whatever classifies as ‘work’. An unfortunate sid…
