Food

Written by Shantanu David | Updated: February 22, 2015 12:00:16 am Spread over an indoor and terraced dining area, The Art Bar, at first glance, doesn’t resemble your typical HKV hangout. Accoutered with paintings and other objet d’ art, striated with variegated lighting strips, the interiors and exteriors are a ...

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Updated: March 1, 2015 12:00:31 am The best chaat bungs together so many little bits. By: Anoothi Vishal  Taazi gobhi-baasi paranthe hardly sounds like your quintessential Holi treat. But at my grandparents’ house, this was a breakfast tradition as firmly established as, well bhang, chaat, gujiya and all those other ...

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By: Indo-Asian News Service | New Delhi | Published: March 4, 2015 12:46:35 pm Widows eat meal after holy celebrations at the Meera Sahbhagini Ashram in Vrindavan.(Source: AP) After a splash of colours, mischief and some dancing, guests make a beeline for food at every Holi party. Plan convenient snacking ...

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By: Associated Press | New York | Published: March 4, 2015 10:11:37 pm McDonald’s Golden Arches logo (Source: AP) McDonald’s says it plans to start using chicken raised without antibiotics important to human health and milk from cows that are not treated with the artificial growth hormone rbST. The company ...

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Written by Shantanu David | Updated: March 11, 2015 12:00:38 am Gaggan Anand (second from right) with his team. At a meeting with Gaggan Anand late last year, the Indian-born, Thailand-based chef predicted rather nonchalantly that his Bangkok restaurant would be the best in Asia. Give the man a stuffed ...

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Written by Meenakshi Iyer | Mumbai | Updated: March 19, 2015 12:00:46 am Cookie Jar Yakitori Chicken Inside a cookie jar placed on our table, chunks of chicken on skewers sit amid applewood smoke. Once the lid is lifted, the aroma of the chicken, grilled to perfection, mixed with that ...

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Written by Shantanu David | Updated: March 24, 2015 12:00:34 am After more than 12 years in the retail industry, Vikrant Misra wanted a change. On coming home to Delhi, from Aurangabad, Maharashtra, he decided to venture into the food business and open a cafe with a beer and wine ...

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Written by Somya Lakhani | Published: April 4, 2015 1:37:42 am It was about two years ago that Chaitanya Mathur of BanginBeats, an online dance music portal, came up with the idea of a food festival in a park. After attending a ton of similar festivals across the world, he ...

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Written by Shantanu David | Updated: April 6, 2015 2:28:45 pm Given that it is under the aegis of Ritu Dalmia, Diva Spiced is eclectic to say the least The restaurant business in Delhi is much like the ancient dynasties of China, before the nation came to be ruled by ...

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Written by Meenakshi Iyer | Mumbai | Published: April 11, 2015 12:49:21 am Chef Laurent Peugeot was named the ‘Best Young Chef of the Year’ in 2007 by Gault Millau; as part of the pop-up menu, Peugeot serves fresh strawberry with syrup of strawberry, espuma kapao (thai basil). Overlooking the ...

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