Every city has a few iconic places to eat – restaurant being too pretentious a term for some of them – that are part of the city’s social and cultural history. It is not only about the food they serve – which is usually fantastic – but about the ambience and quirks of the place.…
Metropolitan India is undergoing a global cuisine revolution. Descriptors such as niche, artisanal, authentic, creative and fusion now apply to numerous new restaurants in Mumbai, Bangalore and even Delhi (where the hippest restaurants are often found in its oldest villages - subject of a couple of posts previously). Foodies throng to these new places, discovering…
Kanchuki, Nika & I got away for short break to The Little Rann of Kutch (migratory birds & wild asses!), Ahmedabad (the Sankranthi Kite Festival) and Mumbai (the Mumbai marathon) a few weeks ago. At Ahmedabad, we stayed in a clean, friendly and cheap hotel called Hotel Volga, just off Relief Road. We checked in…
I must confess that its a task to figure out places to give treats, everyone is up for a free lunch specially in my team, there are a couple of places in Gurgaon that I would like to call food-joints-esentially-for-treats. Starting from a name that's really ALL-THAT-YOU-CAN-EAT experience is Barbeque Nation, its the one stop…
Saturday afternoon found us at a loose end around lunch time in Gurgaon - the wife and our 4 year old T, and I. We'd just wrapped up some work, and we'd had Thai food on our minds for some time, so out came the phone to search for options. Among the many names offered…
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