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States Of Taste: Barcode’s Artisanal Chocolates Are A Delicious Geography Lesson
Barcode provides a geography lesson in a box of chocolates. The brand’s neon green box, which slides open to reveal individual chocolate slabs, is a primer on six Indian states through ingredients...
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Things To Do This Weekend In Mumbai: Friday, July 22 to Sunday, July 24
Attend a protest at Byculla zoo against the BMC’s plan to acquire Humboldt penguins. FRIDAY, JULY 22 ART Chitpur (dis)Local at Mumbai Art Room Hamdasti, an artist collective from Kolkata, has put...
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The Paodcast: An NRI, Bombaywallas and Irani Cafes
Britannia & Co. Photo via Wikipedia. On this episode of our podcast The Paodcast, we interview India-born, UK-based chef Atul Kochhar about his Bandra Kurla Complex restaurants NRI and Lima with...
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Food Review: Garammasala.com, Juhu
In Mumbai, conversations about food at theatre venues inevitably become a discussion about the consistently good Prithvi Cafe, housed within the city’s iconic Prithvi Theatre in Juhu. Imran Rasheed and...
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Chef Atul Kochhar: “Jugaad Helps Me Wherever I Am In The World”
UK-based celebrity chef Atul Kochhar opened NRI, a restaurant that serves the food of the Indian diaspora, in Bandra Kurla Complex, in February. The very next month, he launched Peruvian bar Lima right...
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Food Review: Poetry by Love and Cheesecake
Like La Folie Lab, Poetry by Love and Cheesecake is a cafe-patisserie hybrid. This new Bandra outpost has replaced the now-shuttered Khar branch of the four-year-old cheesecake chain, which also has...
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Mumbai Diary: Gauri Devidayal
The majority of Mumbaikars who dine out frequently would agree that The Table in Colaba, which opened in 2011, is among the best restaurants in the city. The husband and wife pair of Jay Yousuf, who...
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Dive Bar Review: Kamal Chhaya, Andheri
On this fortnight’s episode of their podcast the Adventures of Cheap Beer, dive reviewers Karan Agarwal and Suyash Barve visited the Andheri bar with guests, stand-up comedians Siddharth Dudeja and...
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Food Review: Sindhful
Koki with chole and boondi raita. Sindhi food is sorely underrepresented in Mumbai’s restaurants, despite the community’s large presence in the city. Folks with a penchant for this cuisine have to trek...
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Pao Bites: Bar Code
In this instalment of our series of mini episodes Pao Bites, which we publish in the week between our fortnightly podcast The Paodcast, the opening of an outpost of Rainforest Resto-Bar in Phoenix...
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New Bars and Restaurants: Play, Three Chicks And A Bear in Lower Parel
Play The Lounge has opened in Lower Parel. OPENINGS • Play The Lounge has opened in Kamala Mills Compound in Lower Parel. At the games-themed bar and nightclub, customers can play beer pong, ‘drunken’...
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Monthly Specials: More Community Food Stores At Which To Get A Masala Fix
Burhani Grain Stores in Null Bazar. In this second column on community food stores are the stories of four more multigenerational, family-owned businesses with no branches. They’re each repositories of...
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Sip City: Mumbai’s Best Bars
We’ll say it outright. Our list of the city’s 40 best bars is bound to be contentious. As with any best-of list, it’s subjective. This selection is based on both the site’s editors’ and crowd...
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New Dessert Stores and Restaurants: Levantine Gourmet in Bandra, Thyme Bistro...
OPENINGS • Levantine Gourmet, a Middle Eastern dessert store, opened in Bandra on Sunday, July 31. They retail imported and locally made treats such as baklava from Dubai; plain and stuffed dates from...
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Chill Factor: An Event This Weekend Will Examine The Idea Of ‘Mumbai Cool’
Piramal Museum of Art. What do we mean when we say something is cool? Like abstractions such as ‘fine taste’ and ‘good art’, the idea of coolness is hard to pin down. An event titled ‘That’s Mumbai...
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Food Review: The Curry Brothers
Prawn moilee with coconut rice. A Goan and a Bengali walked into a kitchen. This is not a set up for a joke, but a summary of how The Curry Brothers, a Lower Parel-based food delivery service, began in...
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Things To Do This Weekend In Mumbai: Friday, August 5 to Sunday, August 7
The Aditi Mangaldas Dance Company will present its new show ‘Inter_rupted’ on Saturday. FRIDAY, AUGUST 5 ART Precipitation of Thoughts at ICIA Gallery A group show of painting and sculpture by Anjoli...
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The Paodcast: Abused Food Terms, Blue Frog and Bhendi Bazaar
Blue Frog. On this episode of our Mumbai-focused podcast The Paodcast, we discuss annoying menu descriptions in our food section Bombay Binge. Next, in our culture segment The Scene, we talk about the...
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Rich Substitute: Ten Delicious Buff Dishes
Among the things the ruling BJP-Shiv Sena coalition in Maharashtra will be remembered for is the ban on beef. Despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent attempt at damage control, the parent BJP...
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New Restaurants and Bakeries: Genuine Broaster Chicken in Andheri, Ellipsis...
Genuine Broaster Chicken. • Genuine Broaster Chicken, the US-based restaurant chain, is slated to open its first outpost in India, in Andheri on Wednesday, August 10. The brand has patented a...
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