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My Gymkhana meal (with S and A) and Delhi’s best Club food

Posted by Anoothi Vishal on December 30th, 2011

By Anoothi Vishal

Over my monthly lunch with S and A (this time though it was more like a quarterly lunch), I discovered the best soup in Delhi. S is a member at the snobby Gymkhana; so we sat around a table in the dining hall, trying to look older and distinguished enough to fit in with all the other diners, to speak in hushed whispers and to not give in to the temptation of looking into our silenced-cellphones to check whether there could have been any other calls at all from non-random PR people.

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My (unannounced) review of Smoke House Room

Posted by Anoothi Vishal on December 29th, 2011

Smoke House Room in Delhi was quite the launch of 2011, I checked it out some time ago. Here’s how it went…

By Anoothi Vishal

First impression

The sleepy Crescent Mall, much of whose top floor Smoke House Room takes up, lies in darkness when I give my car to the valet.

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On Delhi’s 100th birthday: Coronation chicken, Shahjahanabad’s lost dishes, and a rant

Posted by Anoothi Vishal on December 12th, 2011

By Anoothi Vishal

Not because I wanted to particularly celebrate the Delhi Durbar of Dec 12, 1912, where George V may well have been following, ironically, the grand Mughal tradition of holding an ostentatious audience with his tributary princes. Not even because the day should be celebrated — with or without the government of India pitching in to mark what it does not quite what to acknowledge: the country’s colonial past—as the beginning of a newer, more powerful Delhi.

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My day at the Academia Barilla, Parma

Posted by Anoothi Vishal on December 11th, 2011

A meal in a library with some of Europe’s oldest recipe books and menus is even more special because of the gourmet cooking class that precedes it

By Anoothi Vishal

Last week, in the heart of Parma, that lovely region of Italy known for its ham and cheese amongst other things, I got a chance to live out my masterchef, er, apprentice dream!

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The winter brunch list

Posted by Anoothi Vishal on December 4th, 2011

The prettiest places to eat out at this season

By Anoothi Vishal

Unlike in other colder parts of the world (and country), winter is not a season full of blues for most of us in the Subcontinent. Instead, it is a particularly salubrious time; where the terrible heat and dust and sweat of the rest of the year give way to Lodhi Garden picnics, farmhouse revelry, Christmas lunches, beach BBQs and, in general, to much all-round consumption.

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Big, fat tables

Posted by Anoothi Vishal on December 4th, 2011

Top tables

Luxury dining comes of age in the capital with the likes of Le Cirque and Lebua’s ambitious gourmet- Indian plans…

By Anoothi Vishal

Will you pay $ 400 per person on a meal for a single person at a super-exclusive Indian food restaurant—no, not in New York or Chicago or even London, but here in the National Capital Region?

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Why Masterchef India is not (and will not be) as good as Masterchef Australia!

Posted by Anoothi Vishal on November 7th, 2011

By Anoothi Vishal

If you are struggling to make “party” conversation, a safe topic to touch upon, at least in young, metropolitan India, would be, well, Masterchef. Not Masterchef India, mind you. But Masterchef Australia, arguably one of the best cooking shows in the world, and one, let me confess right at the beginning, that I am absolutely devoted to.

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The mithai chronicle

Posted by Anoothi Vishal on October 20th, 2011

Sweet somethings during the festive season in India

By Anoothi Vishal

An interesting— if lesser known — reason proffered for failure of the uprising of 1857 had to do with, well, sweets! According to the Dihli Urdu Akhbar of August 23, 1857, chronicling those terrible days of murder and loot in Shahjahanabad, the rebels, who had congregated from other regions of the country, became “softened” with the luxuries of the Mughal capital — amongst them sweetmeats from Ghantewala, the halwai shop set up in 1790 that enjoyed the patronage of emperor Bahadur Shah.

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Asian stir-frying

Posted by Anoothi Vishal on September 30th, 2011

Forget samosas, as the season gets cooler, try stir-frys accented with pan-Asian flavours. But get the basics right first

By Anoothi Vishal

As I write this, the devout have just bid farewell to their beloved Ganpati. But even though the 10-day long festival marking the changing season is over, it continues to rain, clouding our days, bringing down temperatures and evoking amongst other things the natural desire to indulge in something hot, crisp and spicy.

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My six-year-old, the food critic…

Posted by Anoothi Vishal on September 17th, 2011

Reviewing restaurants through the eyes of my child

By Anoothi Vishal

At Sirocco, the world-famous bar and restaurant in Bangkok, I had a rather interesting companion for dinner one night: My daughter Aaliya. A live jazz band, a luxury menu with modern European food and a lovely, candle-lit ambience—this, after all, is the world’s highest al fresco restaurant, the limited tables much sought after by wannabes and celebrities, including those from Hollywood, alike—make this one of the most romantic dining out places in Asia.

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