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Restaurant Review: Farzi Cafe, Lower Parel
After two weeks of failing to snag dinner seats at Farzi Cafe, we showed up as walk-ins at lunch time, only to be shown to their bar. The counter, like the rest of the three week-old modern Indian...
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Monthly Specials: How Indian Farmers Are Getting The World’s Veggies On To...
Purple corn. Photo courtesy of Foodhall India. It started with a photo from a farmer, via WhatsApp. The second clue showed up one hungry afternoon while I was checking out food shops on delivery app...
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In the crossover episode that nobody asked for, the folks behind dive bar reviewing podcast the Adventures of Cheap Beer, Karan Agarwal, Siddhant Mehta and Suyash Barve, invited the founders of this...
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Give Us This Day Our Daily Chemicals?
Photo: Katrin Gilger via Flickr. When I was a kid in the 1980s, a loaf of sliced commercial bread was sold in wax paper wrappers for the princely sum of five rupees. This bread would be eaten in its...
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New Restaurants and Bars: Jamie’s Pizzeria, Woodside Inn in Lower Parel
Jamie’s Pizzeria will open in Phoenix Mills. Photo: Chetan Vij. • The first Mumbai outpost of Jamie’s Pizzeria by Jamie Oliver, which launched in Delhi last year, will open in place of Haagen-Dazs in...
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Red Label: The Daily Dose Is A New Indian Wine Worth Trying
A common case made by novice drinkers against red wine is that it’s too harsh on the palate. Many are bothered by the tannic sharpness of a lot of reds, especially those who are fond of sweet flavours...
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Celebrate Traditional Ingredients At Foodhall
Gourmet foods supermarket Foodhall is showcasing traditional foods. In its Traditions by Foodhall range, customers will find a wide variety of staple ingredients such as cereals, pulses, rice and...
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Food Review: Bombay Waffle Co., Bandra
Butter and yeast, the two ingredients that are the least utilised in the pantry at Bandra’s Bombay Salad Co., are the core cooking components at Bombay Waffle Co. After plying the suburb with bowls of...
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Food Review: Cool Story, Bandra
Mango cheesecake fratte overload. Cool Story, a 250 square feet garage store selling frozen beverages, had a timely summer launch in Bandra this March. Its story, however, began over a year ago when...
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Snacks In The City: A Guide To Street Food In Indore
Google “food capital of India” and Indore shows up among the usual suspects of results (Delhi, Mumbai, Amritsar, Kolkata). The unassuming little city punches way above its weight in the street food...
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Food Review: Ministry Of Salads, Breach Candy
One would imagine that the success of Bombay Salad Co. would’ve have prompted food entrepreneurs to open salad-focused joints at the speed at which fro-yo places once populated the city. This has not...
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New Dessert Stores and Concept Kitchens: Oh Dough in Fort, Magazine Street...
Magazine Street Kitchen. • Food Matters India, the company behind fine-dining restaurant The Table in Colaba, have launched their second culinary venture Magazine Street Kitchen in Byculla. The 2,500...
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Bar Review: Kaitlyn’s Beer Garden, Bandra
If the city’s bar flies were among the country’s more litigious citizens, then we wouldn’t be surprised if Kaitlyn’s Beer Garden was to be sued for false advertising. For it is by no means a beer...
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New Culinary Event Small Plates Week Will Offer Big Deals
SodaBottleOpenerWala in BKC is among the 15 participating restaurants. It might be called Small Plates Week but the new culinary property by Cellar Door Hospitality, which also helms Chef’s Table Week,...
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Celebrity Chef Padma Lakshmi Documents Relationships And Recipes In Her New...
In his memoir Joseph Anton, Salman Rushdie has some critical and often bitchy things to say about the women in his life. Padma Lakshmi, his fourth wife, gets the unkindest cut. He describes her as...
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The Paodcast: Dive Bars, Design Spots And A Red Light Area
Clothing and home decor store Nicobar in Kala Ghoda is among the spots we discuss in The Scene. On episode 13 of The Paodcast, we interview the trio behind the Adventures of Cheap Beer podcast about...
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Things To Do In Mumbai This Weekend: Friday, June 10 to Sunday, June 12
‘Early Walk’ by Raju Patel at Clark House Initiative. FRIDAY, JUNE 10 EVENTS FOR KIDS Summer Fiesta at the NCPA Experimental Theatre + Godrej Dance Theatre The National Centre for the Performing Arts’s...
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Hot Plates: Five Fantastic Thalis From Across The Country
A thali is simply a round plate used to serve food, and has now become synonymous with a whole meal that includes several dishes at a cheaper price. The idea behind this is to offer a balanced meal...
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Restaurant Review: Bastian, Bandra
Tuna poke. A crab has replaced a Corleone as the mascot at the Bandra address that used to house Gangsta’s, the mafia-themed pub. Seafood speciality restaurant Bastian opened in its place two weeks...
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Giveaway: Win A Hipcask ‘Beer Passport’
Locally made craft beer is now much in demand at bars across Mumbai. Hipcask, a mobile app that specialises in alcohol-related deals and guides has capitalised on the craze with the launch of their...
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