As I was reading up about Sushi a few years back, there were some shocking revelations that I found. I kept reading more and more about these misogynistic myths and practices around Sushis, and as I couldn’t find any comprehensive analysis on the issue, decided to jot down my notings. 1. Women shouldn’t eat Sushi:…
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Bye Bye Shrewsbury 🙁
The ever-bustling bakery, known for it’s Shrewsbury Biscuits, Choco-Walnut Cake and Wine Biscuits among other things, was started in 1955 by the Irani family. No trip of mine to Pune feels complete without a visit to the legendary Kayani Bakery. And whenever I hear of someone coming to my city from Pune, I drop the…
Riding on the festivities at the Dragon Boat Festival at Yauatcha, Kolkata:
Yauatcha, Kolkata is celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival till the 26th of June. And to join in the festivities, I went there last week, to try out the festival menu, on an invitation. The menu for the festival has Sticky Rice Dumplings and some rather interesting wok dishes, apart from the brilliant dessert. As the story…
Centennial Celebration of MPOC
The Malaysian Palm Oil Council recently celebrated it’s 100 years in Kolkata in a grand party at our very own Park Street. On an invitation to the celebrations, I had a gala time with friends old and new on 19th March. The thing about Palm Oil is that one can love it or hate it…
To Love or Not to Love ‘The Love Room’, the first Pet-Friendly Café in Town
Well honestly, I am not a pet enthusiast by any stretch of imagination. So when my friends were super-excited about visiting Love Room, the first pet-friendly cafe in Kolkata, I was rather skeptical about how the set up would be, if the in-house pets will be all over me or not, etc. On my visit…
The Green Signal🌾
The vegetarian food scene is fast catching up with its meatier cousin in the city, and though I am an omnivorous, the way nature has made humans to be, I am not very averse to the idea of a meal without meat at times. Though I do not understand the relevance of the word ‘pure’…
Go Talli, not Broke:
Hangovers very often, are accompanied by the ‘Empty-Wallet Syndrome’. With taxes on alcohol reaching an obscene level, a drinking session outside is really getting taxing for young adults. And while I have no remedy for the hangovers, the EWS is now easily curable with the Talli menu at the Bodega Cantina Y-Bar at Park Street,…
The Big, Red Box of Happiness:)
Like any other mundane Friday, last Friday I was sitting at my desk in office, trying my best to go through the more urgent ones of the files from the dusty heap on the table in front of me. It was just then that I was told that somebody has come to meet me, right…
Our Honeymoon: Of joy, learning and getting to know each other
Fifteen months ago when I had thought of starting a food blog, I had wanted to create an archive of my thoughts and memories attached to food. Very little did I know that it would go on to become so much more than that. Today after 15 months since the inception of BiteChompGulp, it has…
Gabbar Ka Birthday Dhamaal!
The menu and the decor of this place is the perfect marriage of quirk and Bollywood. Their food looks spectacular. The desserts tasted like heaven. There’s nothing more I could have asked for, at least for that evening.
The Park Street Newbies, all set to Steal the Show!
A few days back I posted on the Classic Park Street Pit-stops, (Classic Pit-Stops at Park Street:) eateries which have defined the original Food Street of Calcutta for ages now. So, to not post about the new entrants of Park Street would almost be a sin now. The new players are not just doing well, but…
Let’s Make Rakhi Sweeter!
Rakhi is just around the corner, on 18th August to be precise. And most brothers and sisters are surely gearing up to it. The popular notion of Rakhi being symbolic of a brother taking a vow to protect the sister, always came across as a little sexist to me and also, not having a brother, I always…
Classic Pit-Stops at Park Street:
Park Street is the original food street of Calcutta. No matter how many new places open up at Sarat Bose Road, or Rajarhat, this is one basic fact which remains unchanged in the lives of us, the Calcuttans. Many of once-fancy restaurants of Park Street have now been closed down, or have been reduced to…
An Uber-Cool Friday:
A page from my Diary, dated 15th July, 2016: 8am: The alarm has been snoozed enough and I need to get going for the day, but something doesn’t feel right. My right eye is twitching, and it’s nowhere near mild. The skies are grey, and getting transport till office will certainly be a pain, I…
Ego Retro Lounge: To Sip & Unwind
Want to have a relaxed evening with some good food and good conversations? Or is glugging a beer and tapping your feet to live music, more of your thing? Either way, you must head up to Ego, the Retro Lounge Bar at the Peerless Inn. Located at the prime location of Esplanade, Peerless Inn has…
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