Hindustan Times
The great biryani search continues. But Lucknow, it turns out, is pulao country. It is also the place for outstanding kababs and kormas. And it has the best chaat in the entire country
I went to Lucknow as part of the great biryani search. But all controversies about whether Lucknow made a biryani or a pulao were quickly settled. Every single person I met in Lucknow was clear that Lucknow only dealt in pulao, not in biryani. Read more
(6 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Sunday, April 5, 2009 at 6:58 pm
Filed under Rude Food · Tagged Biryani, Dish, Food, Hyderabad, Lucknow, Lucknowi biryani, pulao
I am off to Hyderabad, home of grand cuisine, alternative centre of north Indian food to Lucknow, birthplace of famous biryani and a city celebrated in gastronomic legend. Truth be told, I know very little about Hyderabad. I was here in the ’70s, a trip I remember because it coincided with the death of Elvis Presley. Read more
(7 votes, average: 3.71 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Saturday, February 21, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Filed under Rude Food · Tagged Aurangzeb, Awadhi, Azizia, Beef, Biryani, Chandrababu Naidu, Deccan, Delhi, Dhaba, Discovery Travel, Dum Pukht Biryani, Goat, Hyderabad, Hyderabadi Biryani, Hyderabadi Food, Kebabs, Kuchcha Biryani, Kurries, Lucknow, Maurya, Meat, Nizam of Hyderabad, North Indian Food, NT Rama Rao, Recipe, Rice, Saudi Arabia, TV
I always like to try something new and believe that to have old favourites is to deny yourself the pleasures of something new. So here are some of the meals and dishes that I remember with affection from last year. Read more
(3 votes, average: 3.33 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Saturday, January 3, 2009 at 8:20 pm
Filed under Rude Food · Tagged 2008, American Cuisine, Bangkok, Beef, Biryani, Bombay, Brown Onions, Calcutta, Chaat, Channa Tikki, Chef, Chicken, Chilli, Chinese Restaurant, Crab, Dhaba, Dinner, Dubai, Duck, Dum Pukht, Ethereal Food, Favourite Dish, Favourite Restaurant, Fish, Fish Carpaccio, Food Writer, Food Year Ender, Fruit, Golgappas, Hyatts, Indian Hotel Industry, Ingredients, Las Vegas, Meals, Meat, Media, Memorable Meals, Mushrooms, Pasta, Patissier, Pizza, Porcini Mushrooms, Pork, Sakura, sauce, Scallop Sashimi, Singapore, Switzerland, Thai Cuisine, Thai Restaurants, Trishna, Water
Gajalee is justly famous in suburban Bombay. With food this good served up with a minimum of fuss, who can resist? Vir Sanghvi gives us a taste… Read more
(4 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Saturday, December 20, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Filed under Rude Food · Tagged Apple Kulfii, Baingan Bharta, Beverage, Beverage Business, Biryani, Bombay, Bombay Duck, Bombay’s Film City, Bombil, Chicken, Chinese, Chinese Pomfret, Chinese Roast Chicken, Coastal Cuisine Restaurant, Cover Story, Crab, Dum Pukht, Egg, F&B, Fish, Fried Bombil, Gajalee, Gajalee Taste, Gajalee Version, Garlic, Garlic Butter Sauce, Hotel, Jaya Bachchan, Kareena Kapoor, Khichdi, Kothmir, Kulf, Malvani Dish, Maratha, Meal in Bombay, MIDC Complex, Mutton, Mutton Sookha, New York, Non-Vegetarian, Onion Chutney, Onions, Poori, Prawn Curry, Rani Mukherjee, Sachin Tendulkar, Sagar Ratnas, Sea Food, Sea Food Restaurant, Shrimp, Sugar, Tandoor, Thai Cuisine, Trishna, TV, Vile Parle, Waiter, Yellow Dal
