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Bar Review: MasalaBar, Bandra
Cocktails are like superhero movies. Everybody wants to do them but few can do them right. They’re among the chief ways for bars to distinguish themselves from the competition so almost every new...
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Monthly Specials: How A Handful Of Candy Companies Are Keeping Sweet Memories...
Ravalgaon’s Cheery sweets. In the recently-released Hindi film Kapoor & Sons, Alia Bhatt’s character is on the hunt for Phantom cigarettes when Sidharth Malhotra’s character whisks her away. About...
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New Cafes and Bakeries: Bombay Coffee House in Bandra, Sassy Teaspoon in Juhu
OPENINGS • Bombay Coffee House has opened in Bandra. The 1,250 square feet coffee shop serves hot coffees such as macchiato, mochaccino, Madrid mocha and cappuccino and cold variants like Vietnamese...
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Restaurant Review: The Village Shop, Bandra
Mustard fish with black rice. Restaurateurs often compare launching an eatery to having a baby. Jennifer Mallick and Ashish Madan, owners of Bandra’s Birdsong The Organic Cafe became second-time...
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The Daily Pao Weekend Events Calendar: Friday, April 1 to Sunday, April 3
The F16s will perform at Blue Frog on Friday. FRIDAY, APRIL 1 ART Dhruva Mistry at Jhaveri Contemporary Baroda-based artist Dhruva Mistry’s new solo show The Human Abstract includes sculptures in...
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Red Alert: The City Will Soon Get A Steady Supply Of Sriracha
Thanks to one ardent Sriracha fan, come May, Mumbai will have a steady supply of what is arguably the world’s most popular hot sauce. Khar-based entrepreneur Raj Sablok has acquired a distribution...
View ArticleThe Paodcast: Bhut Jolokia, Bawas and Bovine Bliss Balls
On the eighth episode of our Mumbai-focused podcast The Paodcast, we talk about local hot sauces in our food segment Bombay Binge, hilarious phrase book ‘Parsi Bol 2‘ in our culture section The...
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Fire Report: Four Hot Sauces Worth Trying
It will take at least another month for Sriracha or, according to some people, the real deal to be readily available in Mumbai. Until then, hot sauce fanatics in the city can try out four locally-made...
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New Delivery Services And Bars: Little Food Daily in Andheri, The Beer Cafe...
Little Food Daily is slated to launch in Andheri on Friday, April 8. Photo: Joy Manavath. OPENINGS • Little Food Daily (LFD), an online food delivery service, is slated to launch in Andheri on Friday,...
View ArticleDive Bar Review: Navik, Andheri East
For episode 24 of their podcast the Adventures of Cheap Beer, the trio of Mumbai quarter bar-reviewing tipplers Karan Agarwal, Siddhant Mehta and Suyash Barve visited Chakala dive Navik. Their guest...
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Restaurant Review: Tatami, Bandra
Last month, Japanese restaurant Kofuku vacated its Bandra address of four years and moved into a new location in the suburb. It was promptly replaced by Tatami, another Japanese joint, which feels like...
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The Daily Pao Weekend Events Calendar: Friday, April 8 to Sunday, April 10
‘Ishq Aaha’ will be staged on Saturday and Sunday at G5A. FRIDAY, APRIL 8 MUSIC TALKS ADE Global Sessions Seminar at Tote on the Turf Dutch electronic dance music festival and conference ADE or...
View ArticlePao Bites: Bar Files
In this instalment of our new series of mini episodes Pao Bites, which we publish in the weeks between our fortnightly Mumbai-centric podcast The Paodcast, we talk about new cocktail-focused bars Lima...
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The Good Stuff: Six Of The Best Bao Sandwiches In The City
The Fatty Bao. This could be the year of the bao sandwich, a hybrid snack that first made a splash in New York in the form of the pork bun made iconic by chef and serial restaurateur David Chang. A...
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New Takeaways and Restaurants: Pack-a-Pav in Bandra, Kaboom In Lower Parel
Mutton shammi pav. • Pack-a-Pav, an 18-month-old home delivery service that specialises in pao sandwiches, is slated to open its first takeaway store in Bandra West on Friday, April 15. The company,...
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How To Do Vietnam On A Whim
I’ve had my eyes set on South-East Asia for a while, and when I saw an airline deal to Vietnam last month (Rs24,000 for a return trip) I took it. I didn’t consult a friend. I didn’t ask anyone whether...
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Restaurant Review: Ruka, Juhu
As soon as we sat to dinner at Ruka, we were presented with two soup spoons. Each contained a wobbling green paani puri sphere with a single boondi as the garnish, an amusing amuse-bouche for a...
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Stock Up On Avocados, Tacos, Salsas And More At Foodhall’s Mexican Fiesta
Mexican purple corn. Foodhall, the gourmet food store in Lower Parel, is celebrating the flavours of Mexico throughout the month during which you can stock up on ingredients, cooked foods and snacks....
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The Daily Pao Weekend Events Calendar: Friday, April 15 to Sunday, April 17
British bass music producer Slugabed will play AntiSocial in Khar on Saturday. Photo: Ivan Krasnov. FRIDAY, APRIL 15 ART Desmond Lazaro at Chemould Prescott Road The In-coming Passengers,...
View ArticleThe Paodcast: Tea Chains, MCs and J. J.
On this fortnight’s episode of our Mumbai-focused podcast The Paodcast, we talk about the proliferation of tea cafes in our food segment Bombay Binge, the current state of Indian hip hop in our...
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