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3 days, 20 hours ago

For online: Taste of Kerala in Delhi

I found myself in a tiny Kerala enclave in the heart of Delhi a few days ago. I was in search of food from Kerala, and landed up at the Kerala House, where I remember having had an excellent fish curry several years ago. A guard politely told me that the Bhavan food was only for guests; I would have …

Food Delhi Online Taste Canteen Kerala

1 week, 4 days ago

Nita Ambani nails the less is more statement as she meets with Vikas Khanna at Antilia in a peach suit. Pics

Hindustan Times

Nita Ambani met with celebrity chef Vikas Khanna and his mother at the Ambani family's lavish Mumbai home, Antilia. Nita Ambani meets Vikas Khanna in Antilia The pictures shared by the fan page show Nita Ambani posing with Vikas Khanna and his mother as she receives tokens from them, including a flower bouquet and a cookbook by Vikas Khanna. “Nita …

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2 weeks, 1 day ago

Gourmet menus to celebrate Ramzan

Live Mint

The modern Indian restaurant specialising in dishes from Andhra and Telangana has a Ramzan menu featuring regional delicacies. Nksha, Mumbai At the colonial-Mumbai inspired restaurant, Nksha, co-founder and chef Vikram Arora joined hands with home chef Farhana Soomar for a month-long Ramzan-special menu. There’s Mushroom Patti Samosa, Mutton Kheema Samosa, Chicken Russian Cutlet, Gosht Khichda, Bohri Murg Biryani, Sheer Khurma, …

Mumbai Menu Ramzan Samosa Mutton

3 weeks ago

Taste history, culture and myriad flavours on a food trip to Thanjavur

Live Mint

Thanjavur, famous as the cultural capital of Tamil Nadu, is a melting pot of history, architecture and myriad flavors. There is a plethora of choices for culinary explorers too, including typical Tamil fare like adai and vada-curry, coexisting with Maratha-inspired dishes like poli and kothamalli mutton sukka. Since kokum wasn’t available in Thanjavur, the chef used tamarind as a souring …

Rice Tamil Maratha Coconut Chola Biryani Coriander

3 months ago

Delhiwale: A ‘purani jeans’ stroll

Hindustan Times

On the aged year’s last day, here’s a walking tour through Gurugram’s good old Sadar Bazar, with ‘stop-here’ recommendations for some of the market’s good old landmarks. Walk ahead along many pleasant distractions lining up both sides of the way, but make sure to stop by a gajak shop towards the end of the market road. Delicacies include til patti, …

Shop Gajak Purani Jeans

4 months, 3 weeks ago

Beyond curry: How Chef Sujan Sarkar is changing America’s perception of Indian food

Salon

Chef Sujan Sarkar is on a mission to redefine what Indian food looks and tastes like. Back in 2012, after spending almost 11 years in London, I moved back to India to learn more about Indian food — just going back to my roots. When the restaurant settled, I moved back to India and opened my first Indian cocktail bar …

Food India London Cuisine Indian Restaurant Diwali

6 months ago

Chef Gaggan Anand wants to bring equality to the table. What does that mean for fine dining?

The Hindu

There is palpable tension in the air. Gaggan Anand, the ‘bad boy’ of Indian haute cuisine, is in town to host an exclusive pop-up. Born in Kolkata to Punjabi parents, Gaggan was once called “the most famous Indian chef in the world” by The New York Times. His restaurants in Bangkok include the eponymous Gaggan, a progressive Indian restaurant, Ms. …

Bengaluru Indian Restaurant Singh Mexican Maria Gaggan

6 months, 2 weeks ago

Chef Prateek Sadhu takes the flavours of Naar on a culinary tour. Here’s what’s on the menu

The Hindu

Chef Prateek Sadhu calls himself an “accidental chef.” Through his formative years, cooking was never in the scheme of things. In the gap between the two, he joined the Institute of Hotel Management “for the fun of it.” He adds, “After three months in the kitchen — during the course — I knew this is what I wanted to do …

India Kashmir Restaurant Lot Leela Prateek Naar

8 months, 4 weeks ago

Anant Ambani, Radhika Merchant's wedding menu to serve specialties from Varanasi's Kashi Chaat Bhandaar

India TV News

The much-awaited wedding of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant is set to take place on July 12 at the Jio World Convention Centre in Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai. Image Source : ANIAnant Ambani, Radhika Merchant's wedding menu As part of the pre-wedding festivities, Reliance Foundation founder and chairman Nita Ambani visited Varanasi last month to seek blessings at the Kashi …

Wedding Varanasi Ambani Merchant Nita Ambani Nita Kashi

11 months, 1 week ago

The Taste by Vir Sanghvi: Top Indian Chefs elevating global gastronomy standards from London to Bangkok

Hindustan Times

Every time friends of mine travel abroad, they ask me to recommend Indian restaurants. The Taste by Vir Sanghvi: Top Indian Chefs elevating global gastronomy standards from London to Bangkok Well, yes, I have and I do sometimes go to Indian restaurants when I am abroad but I don’t go to enough of them to be able to speak with …

Food London Stars Indian Restaurants Restaurant Michelin

11 months, 1 week ago

Delhiwale: Sadar’s 5-star tour

Hindustan Times

Food tours in Old Delhi—nice, but now such a cliche! Jalebi star The venerable cooks of the neem-facing Sardar Jalebi shop have been deep-frying sweet twisted jalebis for more than seventy years. Kebab star The sole kebab stall outside Sadar’s Jama Masjid serves seekh and boti. Chhole kulche star Guptaji ke Mashoor Butter Walle Chhole Kulche, near Apna Bazar building, …

Doda Sadar Jalebi Old Gurugram

11 months, 2 weeks ago

Id-ul-Fitr is here and Bengalureans continue to throng food stalls

The Hindu

Id-ul-Fitr is here, after many days of abstinence and piety, bringing an end to the surfeit of food stalls that sprouted all across the city at night, during this period. Despite the mela being officially banned due to complaints from the area’s residents, the hustle in Frazer Town continues as food stalls are set up just outside the many restaurants …

Food Restaurant Chicken Stalls Ramzan Stall Koramangala

1 year, 3 months ago

The food story of Lucknow lives on: Chef Ranveer Brar

Hindustan Times

Lucknow’s world-famous food and celebrity chef Ranveer Brar complement each other. Ambassadors of food and culture Brar with visual heritage storyteller Maroof Umar Alongside the famous kebabs, biryanis, chaat and other delicacies, the chef feels it’s the culturally rooted Lucknowites who as proud ambassadors are taking the food legacy forward. My takeaway is that the food story of Lucknow lives …

Lucknow City Maroof Umar Chef Brar Chef Ranveer Brar Delhi Food

1 year, 5 months ago

MasterChef India 8 judges Vikas Khanna and Ranveer Brar love cooking videos on Instagram, reveal their comfort food

Hindustan Times

When it comes to household names, chefs Ranveer Brar and Vikas Khanna definitely are the cream of the crop – pun intended. They are known not only for their extensive food knowledge and love of Indian cuisines, but also as judges of the popular cooking show MasterChef India, which features home cooks. That is how everything changed for me.” They …

Food India Cooking Lucknow Instagram This Show Ranveer

1 year, 5 months ago

The forager is putting down roots | Prateek Sadhu opens his new restaurant, Naar

The Hindu

Winding up through the hairpin bends, arriving at the luxurious Amaya, a hotel tucked away into the terraced mountain forests near Kasauli in Himachal Pradesh, I’m reminded of the wise words of my Nepali grandmother. Watch | Prateek Sadhu on ‘Naar’ It is named after the Kashmiri word for fire and has been built to “celebrate Himalayan food culture”. Therefore, …

Food Indian Restaurant Region Mountains This Region His Time

1 year, 6 months ago

Delhiwale: Sadar menu

Hindustan Times

Gurugram’s Sadar Bazar is a hodgepodge of distractions. Here are three of the very many eateries, using the most popular ingredients.. Delhiwale Something with dahi Here’s the sweet chutney and here’s the sour chutney, and here’s the super-soft deep-fried bhalla soaked in dahi, and everything is topped with shards of crispy papri. This dahi bhalla tastes extremely homey — vendor …

Goli

1 year, 7 months ago

Morena food factory manager arrested for death of 5 workers, owner missing: Cops

Hindustan Times

BHOPAL/MORENA: A manager of the processed food products factory in Madhya Pradesh’s Morena district was arrested on Thursday over the death of five labourers due to the suspected leak of poisonous gas on August 30, police said. Morena: Rescue teams outside a food factory where five workers died after inhaling poisonous gas leaking from a tank on Wednesday Sanjay Kushwaha, …

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1 year, 7 months ago

‘Venba’ Takes Me Back to My Roots Through Food and Family

Wired

Before I could muster up the courage to use the idli maker my mom gave me after I moved out, here I was making idli in a narrative cooking video game. Venba and Paavalan work to make ends meet in a place that devalues their history yet dangles a bright future ahead of them, all while trying to balance traditional …

Kavin Venba Immigrant Life Paavalan

1 year, 7 months ago

Chennai’s biryani ‘masters’ are experts at cooking massive feasts for thousands of people

The Hindu

Deep within Chennai’s biryani heartland of Triplicane, a cauldron of biryani is starting to burn. “He wouldn’t start even if one ingredient was missing.” Most biryani masters of today were helpers in their younger years. “I started out by picking pudina leaves as a little boy,” says K Rafi, the master at Periamet’s popular Nayeem Biryani. “Anyone can make biryani, …

Chennai Masters Cook Master Biryani Rafi Triplicane

1 year, 9 months ago

Making biryani is a management lesson in itself: Chef Harpal Singh Sokhi

Hindustan Times

“I firmly believe biryani has a complete organisational structure in itself. I mean, around 40-50 ingredients go into its making just like hundreds of people make an organisation,” says celebrity chef Harpal Singh Sokhi, popular for his jingle ‘namak shamak’. Chef Harpal Singh Sokhi with his latest book, The Biryani Leader He further adds that when you taste a good …

Management Book Leader Chef Biryani Chef Harpal Harpal Singh Sokhi

1 year, 9 months ago

World Ethnic Day 2023: Diving Into India's Gastronomical Extravaganza

ABP News

New Delhi: India has a broad diversity of cuisines because of its many climates, soil types, cultures, and religions, as well as influences from other nations. While North Indian cuisine has a stronger influence of wheat-based dishes like rotis and naans, South Indian cuisine focuses more on rice-based preparations and fermented batters. The spice profiles also differ, with South Indian …

Food Cooking Cuisine Bengali Cuisine Culinary Indian Dishes South Indian

1 year, 10 months ago

Delhiwale: Like a steady friend

Hindustan Times

Evergreen Sweet House has been a Green Park Market icon since 1963. Nafees Bhai’s stall in Old Delhi’s Gali Sui Walan. Take Nafees Bhai’s stall in Old Delhi’s Gali Sui Walan. It is the Walled City’s longest surviving center for bel sherbet, founded 65 years ago by the present owner’s father, the late Hakeemuddin. Like a migratory bird annually flying …

Old Old Delhi Nafees Bhai

1 year, 11 months ago

Explore the newest restaurants, cafés and bars in Delhi

Live Mint

Barely a few months into 2023, and the culinary landscape of New Delhi is already making headway with new bars, restaurants and cafes openings. Where: The Oberoi, Dr. Zakir Hussain Marg, New Delhi Price for one: ₹4900 plus taxes Pincode This 90-seater restaurant is an ode to Delhi’s rich culinary traditions. Price for two: ₹ 2000 plus taxes Erawaan It’s …

Food Delhi Indian Restaurant New Delhi Plus Inja

2 years ago

Fanning an old flame: Chef Gaggan Anand on his India dreams

Hindustan Times

Over much of the past 20 days, Kolkata-born, Bangkok-based chef Gaggan Anand, has been camping out at the Delhi Hyatt hotel, with a skeletal team of 14. The chef rose to fame after he left India for Bangkok in 2001, then interned at Spain’s El Bulli, frequently listed as the top restaurant in the world in the early 2000s. He …

Restaurant Residency Chef Bangkok Anand Indian Cooking Gaggan

2 years, 1 month ago

This man called Misal Pav a namkeen with a very oily 'ghooghni'. Twitter doesn't agree at all

India Today

If you are a foodie and a lover of spicy dishes, you might have tried Maharashtra's famous Misal Pav. However, a man on Twitter had some other thoughts about the dish and called it a namkeen with a very oily 'ghooghni'. So, a man named Bodhisattwa Majumder took to Twitter to share his thoughts about Misal Pav. See the post …

Twitter Misal Pav Misal Pav Oily Ghooghni

2 years, 2 months ago

Masterchef India premieres tonight. When and where to watch, all details here

India Today

Food, flavours, competition and celebrity chefs as judges – what else do we need! ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT MASTERCHEF INDIA Along with India’s rich cultural heritage and colours, food consists of an important part of our ecosystem and also defines regions. Sony Entertainment is back with MasterChef India with Vikas Khanna, Ranveer Brar and Garima Aroma as judges. …

India Contestants Masterchef Masterchef India

2 years, 5 months ago

World Food Day 2022: Saanand Verma, Aasif Sheikh And More Talk About Their Favourite Local Cuisines

News 18

Culinary diversity is one of India’s most important treasures. Celebrating World Food Day, TV actor Saanand Verma, Aasif Sheikh, Neha Sharma and many more list down their favourite street foods in their hometowns. About Madhya Pradesh’s street food, Kamna Pathak who is known for playing Rajesh in Happu Ki Ultan Paltan shared, “Madhya Pradesh’s cuisine has a lot of variety. …

Food Cuisine Delhi Maharashtra City Masala Chandigarh

2 years, 5 months ago

Rukmini Iyer: ‘After becoming a mum, I really appreciate writing one-pot cookbooks’

The Independent

Sign up to IndyEat's free newsletter for weekly recipes, foodie features and cookbook releases Get our food and drink newsletter for free Get our food and drink newsletter for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Those are the ones I’m relying on right now – and the more adventurous …

Food India Recipes South India Indian Rice Regions

2 years, 7 months ago

Watch | Developing a taste for the flavours of Madras

The Hindu

On Sunday afternoon, a group of yuppie youth, used to ordering food over apps at their desk, indulged in a pastime of older generations — participate in a walk. “He chose onion pakoda and had a special recipe for it,” she said, explaining the reason why the shop is known as “pakoda kadai”. The shop used to sell its delicacy …

Milk Shop Triplicane

2 years, 8 months ago

A note on the issue: Everyday Indian food everywhere

Live Mint

In its current season, the food reality show MasterChef Australia has prompted a lot of amusement—one contestant “wowed the judges” when she introduced them to “the flavour bomb that is bhel puri”, another deconstructed papdi chaat and described it as “Indian nachos…vibrant, textural and fun to eat”. It isn’t entirely surprising, in a sense, because we have all rolled our …

Indian Indian Food Food Reality

3 years ago

Delhiwale: A good read served with pickle

Hindustan Times

The pungent aroma is heady. The shop was founded “20 years before the freedom” by Ramavtar’s father, Lala Devi Sahai. “Very popular with women,” remarks Ramavtar, though these monthlies are rarely sighted anywhere else. “Earlier, we kept more magazines… Shama, Khatoon Mashriq, Mashriqia Aanchal, Sushma, Stardust, Filmfare, Mayapuri… some of these are no longer published.” A box by the counter …

Pickle Ramavtar

3 years, 1 month ago

What the Fork: Kunal Vijayakar Treads on ‘Dangerously Volatile Ground’ to Explore Biryanis of the East

News 18

I am now treading on dangerously volatile ground. It was only several years later that I went to Kolkata and first fell in love with the Kolkata Roll that I set out to explore the famed, hallowed and venerated Kolkata Biryani. Today, if you go to one of Kolkata’s famous Biryani shops Arsalan, Aminia, or Rahmania, what you get is …

India Cuisine Mumbai Kolkata Rice Lucknow Meat

3 years, 1 month ago

What the Fork: Dum Technique, Spices Rule the Roost in Biryanis from South, Writes Kunal Vijayakar

News 18

The biryani is probably the most egalitarian food in India. But it was this cheap Malayali-owned Muslim restaurant, called Café Bahar at Gogha Street in Mumbai’s Fort area, where I could afford to order a biryani for myself on my meagre pocket money. Hyderabadi Biryani When you speak of the south, the first and most eminent and touted biryani that …

Indian Rice Meat South Muslim Cooked Thalassery

3 years, 2 months ago

Netizens ask 'Bhai zeher banane ka course kiya hai' after Lucknow man's Chowmein Golgappa recipe goes viral

India TV News

Seems like the year 2022 is all about fusion food and our local street vendors seem to be taking it really seriously. In the video going viral on social media platforms, we see the chef adding potato, chickpeas, several masala powders and sauce. And without discounting on any flavour, he serves it with chutney as a side dip with the …

Lucknow Bhai Netizens Chowmein Golgappa

3 years, 3 months ago

Delhiwale: Is it a cab? No, it’s a food stall!

Hindustan Times

He gave up his career as a cab driver. A cloth banner printed with this name is draped across the length of the cab, and it is in direct view of pedestrians here in Anand Vihar,. The signature dish is karhi, for that is the name of the stall - Radhe Radhe Sharmaji Karhi Chawal Wale. A cloth banner printed …

Sharma Stall Cab Mr Sharma Karhi Karhi Chawal

3 years, 5 months ago

Why Asma Khan’s biryani is the hottest dish in London

Live Mint

A supper club is generally an intimate affair, with a select group of diners sharing a unique gastronomic experience in a discreet, private space. I’m thinking specifically of a place like Bohri Kitchen in Mumbai, where eight guests crowd around a table in Nafisa Kapadia’s downtown apartment, feasting on dish after delicious lamb dish from her tiny kitchen. So there …

India London Indian Calcutta Room Khan Biryani

3 years, 10 months ago

What The Fork: This Ramzan, Kunal Vijayakar Looks Beyond the Indian Subcontinent for Iftaar Meal

News 18

Has a sense of helplessness and inadequacy overcome you? But isn’t it now time to expand our horizons and look at Iftaar food beyond India, Pakistan and the subcontinent? Their full Iftaar meal includes Harira, a soup of lamb, lentils and chickpeas, Malfoof, bite-size morsels of cabbage leaves wrapped around a variety of fillings, usually rice. Although hotels are still …

Food India Delhi Mumbai Rice Lucknow Iran

4 years, 1 month ago

What The Fork: Kunal Vijayakar on the Rise of Home Chef and a World Sans Biryani, Butter Chicken

News 18

I am starting this new column in what is still explicitly a lockdown. That I need something non-vegetarian like chicken, prawns or egg in some form, every meal, I don’t like most vegetables, although I am partial to pulses like Chavli, Vaal, Moong, Matka, and I prefer chapatis to rice. Bimba Nayak, our friendly neighbourhood Pathare Prabhu chef who’s a …

Food Masala Meal Chicken Chef Biryani Mutton

4 years, 2 months ago

Winter delights: ’Tis the season to relish gajak, mungfali, rewri

Hindustan Times

Bonfire and the cracking of peanuts goes hand in hand when it’s winter – the season of comfort food that can be snacked while sitting cosily. While some prefer drum roasting, others want peanuts roasted in kadhai,” says Kunal Mehra, a fourth generation seller at this market, adding, “In gajaks we have chocolate gajak, tilkoot gajak, dry fruit gajak, kaju …

Market Price This Market Lohri Gajak

5 years, 1 month ago

Urban Adda with Garima Arora’s Food Forward India

The Hindu

When Mumbai-born Garima Arora, the first Indian female chef — awarded a Michelin star for her restaurant Gaa in Bangkok, voted Asia’s Best Female Chef by Asia’s 50 Best in 2019 — landed in Telangana with her Food Forward India team, they knew exactly what they wanted. However, instead of going star hotel hopping and following a traveller’s guide to …

Food Telangana Ffi India Team Toddy Garima Food Forward India

5 years, 4 months ago

The Taste with Vir: The return of Gaggan Anand

Hindustan Times

It has probably been the most awaited restaurant opening of the year. Around three months ago, Gaggan Anand fell out messily and angrily with his partners at Gaggan, the modern Indian restaurant that had won two Michelin stars and had been voted Asia’s Number One restaurant and been among the top three restaurants in the world. The new restaurant has …

Indian Restaurant Dish Lab Anand Lick Gaggan

5 years, 7 months ago

Delhi's food czars

India Today

From banking to the business of food Back in 2007, when Delhi was just warming up to club culture, One Café Bar, a new karaoke bar, gave people a novel experience. Then followed many edgy restaurants including Boulevard, Townhouse Café, Hotmess India’s first aphrodisiac bar, Zabardarst Indian Kitchen, and Unplugged Courtyard. Khanna, who was raised in Delhi, pursued International Hospitality …

Delhi Restaurant Experience Sukhija

5 years, 11 months ago

Photos: Rushing to save heritage havelis in Bikaner

Hindustan Times

Photos: Rushing to save heritage havelis in Bikaner The resplendent mansions of Bikaner once hosted royalty and wealthy merchants passing through India's deserts with their caravans, but centuries later these bygone architectural masterpieces are crumbling. Made from distinctive red sandstone, these once grand residences known as 'havelis' were famed for their vivid facades engraved with intricate patterns.. 1 / 10 …

India Heritage View Haveli Improved Layout Bikaner Havelis

6 years, 11 months ago

Foodie’s Paradise: 5 newly-launched restaurants in Delhi-NCR to try out!

India TV News

Good food and meaningful conversation are all you need to have a perfect weekend night. With the Delhi-NCR expanding its options for food lovers, here's a list of the newly opened restaurants that will definitely set your pulse high: Cafe StayWoke- Gurugram Owned by Manali Guha and Abhinav Aggarwal, StayWoke serves "gourmet casual" food which is fine food served in …

Food Delhi Indian Restaurant Pra Swad

7 years, 5 months ago

Around the world in 23 curries: The best from New York to New Delhi

Live Mint

London: Order a curry in southern India and the waiter might just stare at you for a bit. “It’s the best place in the world to have biryani.” ■ Kabab-e-Bahar, Hyderabad Kochhar also likes this lakeside restaurant in the Taj Banjara hotel. “The restaurant is an old-school joint with regulars that have been coming for years.” ■ New Kulfi Centre, …

Food London Delhi Mumbai World Bhatia Indian

7 years, 7 months ago

Trial by taste

The Hindu

It’s been raining biryani. It had been delivered home even before we could say gosht, and I remember how I enjoyed their kofta biryani — peppered with little mince balls. I discovered that the biryani had been catered especially for the club by the Corporate Master Chef of the Clarks Inn Group of Hotels, Sunil Soni, and his able assistant, …

Kolkata Biryani

7 years, 7 months ago

This author's memories of Old Delhi create a delicious journey you shouldn't miss

India Today

Books with recipes barely ever have enough narrative quality--this is a fact many foodies interested in learning where exactly a certain dish comes from regularly complain about. With her new release, Jasmine & Jinns: Memories and Recipe of My Delhi, you'll find a rare story about Delhi's food culture, along with recipes straight from some of the oldest families of …

Delhi Old Old Delhi Dehlvi Jinns Memories Food Book

7 years, 8 months ago

Biryani, kebabs & Ranveer!

Hindustan Times

You cannot take Lucknow out of celebrity chef Ranveer Brar. “This season comes with a tagline Andaaz Anokha and there can’t be a show without nawabi cuisine featuring in it. Lucknow comes naturally to me, says celebrity chef Ranveer Brar. “There is so much Lucknow in my forthcoming show that my team sometimes says that we could rechristen the show …

Food Lucknow Ranveer Biryani

7 years, 9 months ago

The rice' of the DONNE!

Deccan Chronicle

Foodies in Bengaluru have united for their one true love – Biryani. Taking their love for the beloved delicacy to the next level, three food bloggers, Vinay Nagarjuna, Renukesh Bingeri and Navneeth Thimappa created a Facebook group titled “Bengaluru Biriyani Club”. As Renukesh Bingeri, an IT consultant says, “The meat and rice are cooked together unlike other biryani which are …

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