Traditional Srinagar, isolated by militancy for the past decade, is reinventing itself in the cyber age. A halfway house between the old city of Srinagar and its plusher areas, Dalgate is a colourful tumult of brick buildings, shops crammed with tourist kitsch, and a road too narrow by far to handle its traffic. Here, poised…
Ever wondered about the planning that goes into a restaurant? “It’s not unlike having a baby” chorus husband and wife team of Janis Fraser and Sumer Arora. When Janis and Sumer decided to go into the food business, they called in food consultants Under One Roof to thrash out a concept, plan a menu, design…
If you don’t wish to see a steamed up Chef Olaf Niemeier, try and refrain from muttering the mantra of fusion cuisine before him. “It’s become almost a term of abuse,” he explains of the trend, and pleads: “Please don’t refer to my style as fusion.” Eclectic international then, you say to yourself, mentally agreeing…
;Aquum (pronounced Acume) is run by the Qureshi brothers, offspring of the legendary Imtiaz Qureshi of ITC Welcomgroup fame. It has a heavy, dark look at lunch time, but sparkles at night. And though the kebabs run the gamut from barely passable to good, the curries are the best in their category anywhere in the…
It’s dinner time at the Oberoi’s La Rochelle and to do justice to the candle-lit ambience, Chef Jean Marc Gonzales has traded his toque for more suitable evening-wear. His attention, however, is riveted by the plates of food arriving at the next table. It’s easy to see the single passion that runs like a thread…
I’ve been to Blue Ginger three times since its inception last year. Once when the first pair of Vietnamese chefs were in the kitchen, then when a sous chef of Indian origin was handling operations, and most recently after the new pair arrived. I can safely say that the standard is uniformly high. In particular,…
All denizens of Kolkata who come to Delhi to visit or work start scouring the city in search of a European restaurant. Kolkata’s Park Street is full of European restaurants, most of them in the mid-range. Delhi, on the other hand, has very pricey restaurants serving European food and little in the middle range. I…