Zambar @ Ambience Mall, Vasant Kunj

There aren’t too many south Indian restaurants in Delhi that serve non-vegetarian or coastal food. Swagath has a good recall. On my limited visits to Swagath, I have found the food not encouraging enough for me to go back. One that has made me go back many times is the newly-opened Zambar at Ambience Mall […]

Chilis at Ambience Mall, Vasant Kunj

The first thing that appealed to me about Chilis @ Ambience Mall in Vasant Kunj was the design. Just in front of the upcoming PVR property, Chilis has glass walls through which you can see the tables and customers biting into their food. There is a part though that is properly walled and has no […]

Dilli Ki Baarish

There’s something about Delhi monsoons. You never know whether they’ll arrive (I give a damn to our met department predictions), how long it will rain and when it will get over. The whole city goes in a tizzy when the rains come as the red lights suddenly stop working, the vengeful spirit in me cries […]

A great Italian job

Nestled in the greens along the MG Road, Tonino was an unheard entity for me till last evening. To begin with, Tonino is a great Italian restaurant that somehow banks largely on word-of-mouth marketing but enjoys great loyalty from its regulars. Everything about Tonino is absolutely magnificent, from service to food to ambience. It’s a […]

Anna or no Anna

Nothing is permanent – Buddha
It was only yesterday that I was intrigued to know ‘Who is Anna?’ May be it had to do with my dad continuously watching TV at full volume for two days without caring to eat a bite (a bit exaggerated) or the protestors that I witnessed on Jail Road near Tihar […]

Naee Ki Kahani

It took me several years to understanding the meaning of self-grooming. With men, it’s acquired knowledge unlike women who seem to be born with it. Quite honestly, I still do not see the need of facial/physical grooming when it comes to men. Aren’t we supposed to be brawn and macho who take pride in odd […]

Bad Service, Stinking Staff!

Either I have extreme standards of serving a client or there’s something wrong out there. I’ll start with an example, and that of one of my most favourite places. I was at Subway in DLF Promenade a few days back. It is a small counter if you have seen it; barely 3 people can stand […]

Of Hotel Saravanaa Bhawan & The China Kitchen

The weekend was some sort of a gastronomically journey even if I was down with some mysterious bug. I basically visited two restaurants, one on Friday evening and rounded off a filling weekend with an impromptu trip to China Kitchen at the Hyatt. The Friday evening trip to Saravanaa Bhawan was a planned with one […]

Veda at DLF Promenade

Ok, this is my second consecutive restaurant review, and I am happy reviewing restaurants than discussing Baba Ramdev here! It may be a coincidence that the restaurant that I am going to talk about today has a name that is reminiscent of yogis – Veda. Curiously named and designed by renowned designer Rohit Bal, Veda […]

What’s so special about Bukhara?

Bukhara at ITC Maurya Sheraton is one place that I’d been wanting to go for long, but due to lack of right company or some other reason, it’d remained on my must-visit restaurants for a long time. Finally, it happened last Friday that a friend of mine, in a mood to devour Indian food, accompanied […]