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Restaurant Review: Koko
The Tham siblings, Keenan and Ryan, are in the business of cloning restaurants, their own to be clear. The second-generation restaurateurs have inherited the hospitality gene from their father Henry...
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Things To Do This Weekend In Mumbai: Friday, August 12 To Sunday, August 14
‘Constellation 2’ from the show ‘Asterism’ currently on display at Project 88. FRIDAY, AUGUST 12 FOOD & DRINK Pizza Napoletana Workshop at Magazine Street Kitchen The team of chefs running Byculla...
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Pao Bites: Spice Trail
On this mini episode, we speak to our Monthly Specials food columnist Roshni Bajaj Sanghvi about stores selling community-specific masalas and condiments in the city. The Paodcast, produced by Indus...
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Restaurant Review: Jamie’s Pizzeria, Lower Parel
Jamie Oliver’s love for food is infectious. Whether he’s hosting TV shows, churning out recipe books, expanding his restaurant empire or leading a ‘food revolution‘, the British celebrity chef has a...
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New Restaurants: Veranda in Bandra, Sizzle House in Dadar
Veranda. OPENINGS • Bandra has got a new restaurant and bar called Veranda, housed within the Executive Enclave hotel. The multi-cuisine venue, which opened on Monday, August 15, serves dishes such as...
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Things To Do This Weekend In Mumbai: Friday, August 19 to Sunday, August 21
Magazine Street Kitchen will host a pizza making workshop on Saturday. FRIDAY, AUGUST 19 ART Yayati Godbole at Gallery Art & Soul An exhibition of paintings on canvas, papers and objects such as...
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New Bars and Restaurants: Independence Brewing Company in Andheri, Hitchki in...
OPENINGS • Pune brewpub Independence Brewing Company (IBC) is slated to open a taproom in Andheri West, in the third week of September. The two-storey, 1,800 square feet beer-focused bar will be a...
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New Restaurants: The Boston Butt In Kala Ghoda, Chi Na Chi Ni In Kharghar
The Boston Butt. • The Boston Butt, a charcuterie and BBQ-focused restaurant and bar, will open in Kala Ghoda on Wednesday, August 24. The bar will serve Prohibition Era-inspired cocktails such as Ward...
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Top Chef: What’s Cooking With Gaggan Anand?
In 2020, Gaggan, the progressive Indian cuisine restaurant in Bangkok, will be shuttered. This despite the fact that for two consecutive years including this year, it earned the top spot at the annual...
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Pao Bites: Buff Love
Goan b**f olives at The Bombay Canteen. On this mini episode of our Mumbai-focused podcast series The Paodcast, we round up our favourite buff dishes served in restaurants across the city. The...
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Doolally Taproom Has Opened In Kemps Corner
If you live in the Pedder Road-Breach Candy-Nepean Sea Road area, you will be excited by the news that on Thursday, August 25, popular Pune microbrewery Doolally finally opened its taproom in Kemps...
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Things To Do This Weekend In Mumbai: Friday, August 26 to Sunday, August 28
Drummer Gino Banks will be part of both the opening and closing sets at Blue Frog on Sunday, the last day it will operate at its Lower Parel location. FRIDAY, AUGUST 26 ART Rohini Devasher at the Dr....
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Food Movement: Home Chef Revolution Aims To Mobilise The City’s Small-Scale...
An Assamese meal by home cook Gitika Saikia. This weekend, Gitika Saikia and Tejal Choksi will raise their spatulas and usher in the Home Chef Revolution. What sounds like a movement is a new dining...
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Mumbai Diary: Ashish Shakya
For this month’s instalment of our series of interviews with Mumbaikars on their experience of living in the city, we interviewed stand-up comedian Ashish Shakya. Perhaps best known as one-fourth of...
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Monthly Specials: Decoding The Reservation Policies Of Restaurants
The Fatty Bao in Bandra. A few months ago, I tried to book a table at a new Lower Parel restaurant. I called them for four days straight, five or six times a day. The lines would either be busy, or...
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Take a Shelfie: Marou Chocolates
When we chanced upon the The New York Times’s flattering review of Marou, we promptly Googled the Vietnamese artisanal chocolate brand for more information. To our delight, we found that it’s...
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Meat This!: The Cutchi Memon Table Is A Takeaway Service For The Ardent...
Stuffed whole chicken. At the Soomar residence, eating a stuffed bird is a monthly as opposed to an annual affair. The Bandra West-residing Kutchi Memon family’s fowl of choice is chicken. They stuff...
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The Paodcast: Home Dining Experiences, Living Room Gigs and More Bombay Books
Singer-songwriter Mohit Mukhi was among the acts that performed at the August instalment of the Sofar Sounds gig series in Mumbai. On this episode of our Mumbai-focused podcast The Paodcast, we talk...
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New Restaurants: Masque in Mahalakshmi, Neel in Powai
Sukha squid at Neel, which will open in Powai on September 12. OPENING • DeGustibus Hospitality, the company that helms Indigo in Colaba, the Indigo Deli chain and Neel and Tote on the Turf in...
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Theme Parties: A Pub Crawl Through West Delhi’s Punjabi Bagh
Submarine Lounge. It is often said of west Delhi that the neighbourhood is as familiar with subtlety and polish as Arnab Goswami is with silence and self-restraint. The area’s unapologetically loud and...
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