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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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Tags: Beet Soup, Best Food, Butter And Cheese, Caramel, Cellphones, Clubby, Continental Food, Diners, Dining Hall, Hallowed Portals, Hushed Whispers, Kiev, Last Meal, Many Things, Paen, Repute, Rite Of Passage, Temptation, Vishal, Waiters

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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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Tags: Agrarian World, Bbqs, Brunches, Christmas Lunches, Country Winter, Food Retail, Heat And Dust, Inexorable March, Jaggery, Maternal Grandparents, Mild Sun, Propound, Puffed Rice, Seasonal Produce, Sweet Shop, Vishal, Waistlines, Weighing Scales, Winter Harvest, Winter Traditions

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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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Tags: Al Fresco, Asian Diner, Bangkok Hotel, Best Luxury Hotel, Deepak Ohri, Dwarka, European Food, First Steps, Food Menus, Food Restaurant, Food Writers, Foodies, Fresco Restaurant, Global Food, Le Cirque, Luxury Hotels, Management Contract, Traditional Indian Food, Tricky Territory, Vishal

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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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Tags: Cooks, Dieters, Egg, Exact Format, Gap, Glass Of Wine, Hoppers, Imaginations, Indians, Masterchef, Mummies, Neighbourhood, Party Conversation, Prime Time Tv, Stay At Home, Stay At Home Moms, Subtext, Top Manner, Vishal, Worldly Success

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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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Tags: Akhbar, Ancient Texts, Bahadur Shah, Bonhomie, Bura, Chandni, Festival Of Lights, Festive Season, Gond, Holi, Indian Sweets, Jaggery, Khoya, Laddoo, Mawa, Modak, Place Under The Sun, Refined Flour, Sweet Somethings, Vishal

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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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Tags: Ayurveda, Black Peppers, Colds, Commercial Premise, Concoction, Flavours, Ganpati, Germs, Ginger Tea, High Temperatures, Hot Ginger, Indian Cooking, Indian Science, Natural Desire, Pakoras, Pan Asian, Samosas, Spoilage, Strict Accordance, Vishal

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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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Tags: Al Fresco, Christmas Trees, European Food, Food Critic, Fresco Restaurant, Indulgences, Jazz Band, Khichdi, Live Jazz, Penne Pasta, Pizza Hut, Places In Asia, Prattle, Sky Bar, Sophisticated Taste, Strange Experience, Taste Buds, Tomato Sauce, Vishal, Working Mothers

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A very hungry god

Posted by Anoothi Vishal on August 14th, 2011

An economy in high gear, changing consumer preferences and evolving palates are driving the restaurant business in India. But the plate is hardly full

By Anoothi Vishal

“They say it about show biz, but there is no other business like the restaurant biz,” declares investment banker-turned-restaurateur Gaurav Rekhi. Rekhi should know– hopefully.

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Posted in Restaurants, Trends

Tags: Chinese Restaurant, Consumer Behavior, Consumer Preferences, Corporates, Execs, Goldman Sachs, High Finance, Hungry God, Investment Banker, Palates, Personal Attention, Profitability, Restaurant Biz, Restaurant Business, Restaurateur, Return On Investment, Returns On Investment, South Delhi, Street Food, Vishal

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Indian cuisines and Independence Day musings

Posted by Anoothi Vishal on July 27th, 2011

Unity in diversity may sound cliched, but it is exactly that defined Indid’s culinary heritage

By Anoothi Vishal

If you happened to be in Hyderabad and decided to go on a biryani crawl—a hopping expedition across restaurants and clubs, big fat wedding dinners (where indeed some of the best is to be had) and small
hole-in-the-wall shops — would you really be able to discern the best biryani of them all?

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Posted in Commonwealth, Culture in India, Destinations, Heritage

Tags: Biryani, Caste, Commercial Cooks, Concoction, Culinary Heritage, Grain Of Rice, Hole In The Wall, Hyderabad, Indian Cuisines, Local Flavours, Mishmash, Mothers In Law, Mutton, Nation Integration, Persia, Pulao, Slow Flame, Unity In Diversity, Vishal, Wedding Dinners

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Contemporarise, don’t cardboardise!

Posted by Anoothi Vishal on May 1st, 2011

Why are chefs at Amarata, the Oberoi’s contemporary coastal restaurant shying away from the soul of Indian cooking?

By Anoothi Vishal

What is the future of Indian food in India? This is a question that is often debated by chefs, restaurateurs and foodies. And clearly, looking at the spate of big launches in the last two years, one would have to acknowledge that while a wealth of regional and community cuisines lies unexplored, it is what is now known as “contemporary Indian dining” that is taking centrestage.

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Posted in Cuisines, Culture in India, Restaurants

Tags: Blue Cheese, Coastal Cuisine, Comfort Food, Curries, Fancy Restaurant, Foie Gras, Food In India, Foodies, Gastronomy, Great Expectations, Grouse, Gurgaon, Hot Thing, Indian Cooking, Indian Cuisine, Indian Food, Indian Restaurants, Oberoi, Restaurateurs, Vishal

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Posts Tagged ‘Vishal’

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

The winter brunch list

Big, fat tables

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

The mithai chronicle

Asian stir-frying

My six-year-old, the food critic…

A very hungry god

Indian cuisines and Independence Day musings

Contemporarise, don’t cardboardise!

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