What turns a restaurant into a phenomenon? It’s tempting to answer that everything depends on the food but I can think of scores of successful restaurants in India where I wouldn’t eat dinner even if you paid me to. I guess that it is a complex combination of factors and there is no single successful formula; if there was, then all restaurants would work and nobody would ever lose money. Read more
It is a measure of how much eating out habits in India have changed that whereas when I first wrote about truffles, readers were bemused, these days truffles crop up on menu after menu. It is, I guess, also a measure of how much more we are prepared to spend on restaurant meals compared to the past but that, as we shall see, can be debated. Read more
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