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One would not associate the celebration of pasta witha place like Pizza hut, which is synonymous with pizzas, but that is just what it was. The in house head chef of Pizza Hut Chef Arjyo and his counterpart from Barilla, Chef Luca conducted an interactive and innovative pasta workshop. Barilla is…
This was one of those evening I could hardly afford to miss. It was a session at The Beer Cafe with Tulleho’s expert Rohan Jelkie who would be taking us through a special workshop on beer appreciation. I have always enjoyed my beer but my knowledge on them is as limited as any other person…
Usually I am quite disappointed at the dessert section of most of the sit down restaurants as they are generally clichéd and hard on innovations. However, of late I have been quite impressed with the abundance of dessert specialty places like Theobroma, Le 15 Patisserie and off course Chocolateri…
The buzz at the coffee shop of Hyatt never dies down. Specially flown in from Hyatt Regency Incheon, guest Chef Ik Sun Son and Chef Seunghyun Bae are showcasing Korean flavours at Café between 4 to 11 September, 2013. For this special week of Korean flavours the chefs have created a rotating menu…
Café Fresco located at Super Mart-1 is yet another small café however with a difference. It serves only vegetarian dishes in Italian, Thai, Chinese and Indian cuisine. The owner, Parul Singal, says “I always felt non-vegetarians are spoilt for choice in other restaurants while options for vegetar…
Scene 1: A railway station (Gurgaon Junction), with passengers who have just come out from a train and looking for eatables. Just that this railway station is much cleaner than any other I have seen in India. Scene 2: A hawker selling certain drinks from a small box he is carrying. Here is anothe…
I wasn’t expecting much from a restaurant located in Sapphire mall, Gurgaon. And rightly so, the mall that is located in a narrow road facing Orchid Petals apartment with no inside parking facility (as yet) and in case you plan to take escalators instead of a lift, you will have to roam around th…
Braving the heavy Mumbai rains on a Wednesday evening, I make way to California Pizza Kitchen’s (CPK), Lower Parel outlet for a preview of the new additions proposed to the standard menu. The debutantes are in three categories, drinks, appetizers and the main course. Some of these are deserving e…
It is a long drive from Gurgaon to Noida. And we have decided to undertake this voyage to taste food from Beijing. Radisson Blu Hotel at Noida is running the Beijing Food Promotion on from August 23to September 1, 2013 and has invited us to taste out their menu. Once we reach there, we are…
We Indians are unique. Anything we acquire from the outer world, we tend to Indianise it, to an extent that it becomes an entity in itself. One of such acquisitions has been the Chinese cuisine. India is said to have first gotten a taste of it over a hundred years ago, when it was localised…
Rice, rightly called the jewel of Asia is a staple for almost half of the world’s population. And what better way to showcase this jewel than to have a week-long food festival to celebrate the multi-faceted, multi-hued forms of this humble grain. This is exactly what Chef Veena Arora of Spice Rou…
At times I feel I overdo myself, and when I accepted an invitation to a dessert festival at Mamagoto, I knew this is another one of them. Not having a sweet tooth, I can barely finish a dessert…okay two at best, and going to a dessert festival meant I shall be going overboard. I have…
