Dive Bar Review: Chetan Punjab, Vakola
For this fortnight’s episode of their podcast the Adventures of Cheap Beer, the trio of dive bar reviewers Karan Agarwal, Siddhant Mehta and Suyash Barve visited Vakola quarter bar Chetan Punjab with...
View ArticleWhere’s Gaggan? The World’s Best Restaurants List Is Out
Osteria Francescana. Asia’s Best Restaurant Gaggan Anand’s Gaggan in Bangkok is placed at No.23 on the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list for 2016, which was published yesterday. Once again, European...
View ArticleNew Delivery Joints And Cafes: Goila Butter Chicken in Andheri, Sequel in Bandra
• Goila Butter Chicken, a North Indian food delivery service, is slated to open in Andheri West on Friday, June 24. TV chef and author Saransh Goila has set up the kitchen, which will cater his...
View ArticleThings To Do This Weekend In Mumbai: Friday, June 17 to Sunday, June 19
Cinematographer Ramananda Sengupta’s light meter is among the objects in Shivendra Singh Dungarpur’s film ‘The Immortals’, which will be screened on Friday. FRIDAY, JUNE 17 ART DESIGN Eye On Poland:...
View ArticlePao Bites: Ramzan Food Trail
Mohammed Ali Road. Photo: Prashu Kalyan via Wikipedia. In this instalment of our series of mini episodes Pao Bites, which we publish in the weeks between our fortnightly podcast The Paodcast, we chart...
View ArticleSign Up For A Secret Party At A Mid-Town Location This Weekend!
A swish new modern Asian bar and bistro will open at a mid-town location on Wednesday, June 29 and you and your friends can be among the first to visit the spot before it opens to the public. The Daily...
View ArticleBar Review: Myx, Juhu
“Is it a restaurant or a bar?” we asked a member of the staff halfway through our visit to Juhu’s Myx. “It’s a mix,” he replied somewhat cheekily. On the press release, the three-week-old establishment...
View ArticleNew Restaurants and Cafes: Dashanzi in Juhu, Poetry in Bandra
Prawn, shiitake, chive and caviar dumpling. • Progressive Asian restaurant and bar Dashanzi will open on Sunday, July 3 at the J. W. Marriott hotel in Juhu where it will replace Arola, the Spanish...
View ArticleFoodhall Is Holding An East Asian Food Festival
Foodhall, the gourmet food shop in Lower Parel, is hosting an East Asian festival showcasing ingredients and dishes from Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Burma, Thailand and Japan, until Thursday, July 7....
View ArticleThings To Do This Weekend In Mumbai: Friday, July 8 to Sunday, July 10
Untitled by Ronny Sen. The photographer’s images are on display at Tarq. FRIDAY, JULY 8 PHOTOGRAPHY Ronny Sen at Tarq Kolkata photographer Ronny Sen is exhibiting New World Chronicles of an Old World...
View ArticleThe Paodcast: Reviewing, Reading and Repurposing
On this episode of our Mumbai-focused podcast The Paodcast, we discuss how we go about reviewing restaurants and bars in our food segment Bombay Binge; chat about our monsoon reading lists in culture...
View ArticleRestaurant Review: AnnCensored, Lower Parel
If there’s an online generator of modern Indian foods out there like the kinds that produce Shakespearean insults or meaningless postmodern essays, then AnnCensored has surely made use of it. The...
View ArticleFood Review: Oh Dough, Fort
With their sweet-savoury combo and ability to alleviate gloomy moods, we can easily make a case for cookies as the ultimate comfort food. But for those who are eaters not bakers, thus far the closest...
View ArticleTrue Brew: Blue Tokai Coffee Roasters Has Opened In Mahalaxmi
Serious coffee enthusiasts commonly complain that few coffee shops actually brew a decent cup of the stuff. Most often what you get is a scalding, bitter potion, the result of singeing coffee with...
View ArticleNew Restaurants And Bars: Koko In Lower Parel, Doolally Taproom in Kemps Corner
Koko in Lower Parel. • Asian gastropub Koko, the newest venture by Pebble Street Hospitality run by brothers Ryan and Keenan Tham, will open in Kamala Mills Compound in Lower Parel on Sunday, July 17....
View ArticleBar Review: Booze On Moods, Lower Parel
On this fortnight’s episode of their podcast the Adventures of Cheap Beer, quarter bar reviewers Siddhant Mehta, Suyash Barve and Karan Agarwal review Lower Parel bar Booze On Moods, which isn’t quite...
View ArticleAndheri Restaurant Vedge Has A New Menu Of Global Dishes
Tomato and basil spaghetti with creamy risotto at Vedge. Andheri vegetarian restaurant Vedge has just launched a new menu of globally influenced dishes. Among the new items are laksa; chilli bean...
View ArticlePao Bites: This Is How We (Kolkata) Roll
In this instalment of our series of mini episodes Pao Bites, which we publish in the week between our fortnightly podcast The Paodcast, we talk about where you get the best Kolkata rolls in Mumbai and...
View ArticleThings To Do This Weekend In Mumbai: Friday, July 15 to Sunday, July 17
‘The Lobster’ will be screened on Saturday at Liberty Cinema. FRIDAY, JULY 15 ART Thukral and Tagra at Chatterjee and Lal The Delhi artist duo Jiten Thukral and Sumir Tagra will preview Memoir Bar, a...
View ArticleFood Review: Bono Boutique Ice Cream, Bandra
The city’s dessert fiends are indebted to Le Cordon Bleu, a large reason we have access to some first-rate confections. The popular culinary school’s three outposts in Paris, London and Bangkok have...
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