Hindustan Times
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
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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
I woke up in a strange hotel room last Sunday and reached for my morning paper. Bleary-eyed, I worked out that I wasn’t at home, wasn’t even in India and that therefore, I would not get to see that week’s Brunch. Well, yes and no. Read more
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Monday, October 6, 2008 at 10:25 am
Filed under Rude Food · Tagged Aaloo, American, Bacon, Bhatura, Breakfast, Brunch, Champagne, Chefs, Chhola, China Kitchen, Eggs, Fried Fish, Grand Hyatt, Hotel, Hotel Business, HT, India, Indian Food, Kitchen, Lunch, New York, Newspaper, Pasta, Pizza, Puri, Steak, Waffles
I have been eating Ritu Dalmia’s food for far longer than I have known her. Years ago, when it was almost impossible to get good Italian food at reasonable prices in Delhi, I began to frequent MezzaLuna in the Hauz Khas Village. Read more
(9 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Monday, July 21, 2008 at 11:56 am
Filed under Rude Food · Tagged Arun Jaitley, Bombay, Calcutta, Cook, Delhi, Dish, Diva, Eggs, Fish, Five Star Hotels, Greater Kailash, Hauz Khas, HT City, Indian Restaurants, Italian Cultural Centre, Italian Food, Italian Khana, Italian Restaurants, Kathi Rolls, Marwari, Meat, MezzaLuna, NDTV Good Times, Pasta, Punjabi Delhi, Recipe Book, Recipes, Ritu Dalmia’s Food, Sharad Pawar, TV, Wine
It says something about the revolution in our eating habits that most serious Italian restaurants in India (by ‘serious’ I mean those that do not restrict themselves to pizza and pasta) put carpaccio on the menu. In most cases, it is the original though it may not actually be made from beef because the restaurant uses buffalo meat – which also tells us something about religious taboos and restaurant menus.
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(2 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Monday, July 7, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Filed under Rude Food · Tagged America, Bellini, Black Pepper, Buffalo Meat, Carpaccio, Chefs, Eating Habits, Fish, Harry’s Bar, High Protein Diet, Ingredients, Italian Dish, Italian Restaurants, Menus, Pasta, Pizza, Restaurants, Universal Sauce
