If there was a beauty pageant for the best looking restaurant in Khan Market, the prize would probably go to Urban Café. The lower floor has a stylish-meets-decadence look with a few overstuffed armchairs and black and white flooring, while the upper floor has a totally different appearance and caters to a different segment altogether.…
Sushi, South East Asian, pizzas Intro: The largest restaurant in Khan Market is headed by a popular sushi chef Atmospherics: Walk up the rather grubby staircase in the middle lane of Khan Market. You will reach the foyer of Town Hall. Inside that is the sushi counter, which itself leads onto the main dining area…
Modern European Blurb: Modern European food, simple elegant settings and plenty of parking! What do you get when two prominent chefs open their own place? You get this gem of a restaurant with a chef-driven menu. Atmospherics: Next door to the now defunct Chilli Seasons is this extremely attractive restaurant in shades of coffee and…
Modern Indian Fine Indian dining as it has never been seen before Atmospherics: On the ground floor of a deceptively simple cube of a building, Masala Library is all set to shake up the world of Indian gastronomy. As central and desirable an address as you could wish for; plush yet simple inside as it…
Cuisine: Italian Blurb: Straight from Milan is this café next door to a designer furnishings showroom. Visionnaire Café really does try to make a difference in Gurgaon. Especially in terms of the concept: a café next door to a luxury furniture showroom selling the designs of Ipe Cavalli and Fendi. Both are prototypes of the…
Multi cuisine Blurb: A fun place in the Inner Circle of Connaught Place that is a bar and a restaurant Intro: The multi cuisine format of yore gets a new makeover, but it still appeals to the cross-section of humanity that visit Connaught Place. Atmospherics: The (excellent) waiter who served our table informed us that…
Bookies are probably placing bets as to how many more restaurants are going to spring up in already crowded Khan Market. The latest is Watermelon, in the corner of the middle lane of Khan Market, just above the Shahnaz Husain clinic. You will see a health café in light, bright colours. Don’t let the words…
One thing I never tire of during my travels, is to see how the same plant, crop or tree is used so differently in various places where it grows. Take the chinar, for example. It dominates the horizon in Kashmir, especially in autumn when each tree in the Valley looks like a giant globe of…
A few days ago we had visitors to dinner. Nothing exceptional about that, except that rather a lot of mince was left over – an unusual occurrence in the Reshii household where, over the years, I’ve learnt to cook just enough because of an irrational dislike for eating stale food. As a consequence, I have…
If you think of Sri Lanka as a minuscule island that lies to the south of India, you may be right, but if you think that it is too small to offer much diversity, you had better plan a trip there sometime soon. Because if indications are anything to go by, the somnolent country that…