Japanese is fast becoming the hottest foreign cuisine in the country, shoving Chinese, Thai and Lebanese into the background. My first tryst with the much-famed Sushi was back in the year 2009, when I tried a few from a big box of sushi, rather apprehensively, during a family dinner at the Pan Asian, ITC,…
Tag: Fine Dining
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.
Brunching a Happy Brunch at Afraa:
Brunch is my favourite meal of the week. That is because I get to be super lazy and get up late, and then have a celebratory meal of surviving yet another week in this big, bad world. Last Sunday I went to Afraa Restaurant & Lounge, to try out their Sunday Brunch, priced Rs.999/- plus…
The Baap of Barbeques: Barbeque Nation, Park Street:
Unlimited skewered kebabs, on a live grill in the middle of the table, is a scene straight out of my food dreams. And thankfully, unlike most other dreams, this one is pretty easy to fulfill. Because, with Barbeque Nation opening at Park Street, I don’t need to travel all the way to Salt Lake to…
Get ready with your Fork and Knife to dig in @Fork & Knife!
Today in this age of specialization, most of the restaurants which are opening up around us, have a specific theme or a cuisine they focus on. So most of our plans now are like, “Let’s go for an Italian dinner” or “Oh! We must try the new Chinese place”. And though I love cuisine based, or…
My Journey through the Continent @Asia Kitchen by Mainland China
I am a sucker for Asian Food (well, food in general, but Asian food in particular). So when I saw the advertisements around the city of a new Asian place opening up at Kasba, from the house of Mainland China, I immediately made a mental note to pay a visit, rather sooner than later. It…
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…
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…
A Happy Me at the M Bar Kitchen:
One of the relatively new entrants in the Park Street food scene is the M Bar Kitchen. Notably, it is one of those places in the city which boast of serving food with Molecular Gastronomy tricks for the visual delight. Located well inside the Magma House, this place can be pretty tricky to locate, in…
Irish House: Hop into the Hype!
Went there some days back for a lunch with a friend. After seeing too many pictures and check-ins in Facebook, I gathered this must be one of the new ‘happening’ places in town and hard kept it in my wishlist for a long time. Well, it has a pretty big seating area and one can…
Bodega: The World in a Molecule
A joint dream project by Urvika Kanoi and Akash Jaiswal, Bodega Cantina Y Bar at Park Street, is all set to transform the culinary map of the city. Urvika, owner of Bodega, dropped out of film school and joined Le Cordon Bleu, London and on successful completion of her course, bagged an enviable internship opportunity….
Gabbar’s Bar & Kitchen: Where Molecular Gastronomy meets Bollywood
I had heard and read too much about Gabbar’s to not pay a visit and check out for myself whether it’s worth the hype or not. I ordered almost all the things on the menu with the Molecular Gastronomy tag, and the theatrical quotient in all of them were amazing. Be it the Paani-puri, the…
The Legacy Grill, The Great Eastern: Continuing the Legacy of Elegance
The erstwhile Great Eastern symbolized class and pomp since the time it opened in 1840-41 in Calcutta. Its numerous mentions in books, movies and memoirs testify its presence and importance in those days. When it reopened its doors once again in 2013, the one question which raised unanimously was if it will be able to…
Chapter 2: A Bite into the Past
Calcutta, (yes, that’s the name I prefer) was the hub of glittery nightlife from the 1940s till the 1970s, when the city would party all night long at Park Street, while most other cities would still be mostly unaware of the eclectic mix that good food and good music can be. But today, most of…
Kuaizi ‘N’ Kadai: The Place for Vegetarian Global Cuisine
The first thought that came to my mind when I heard of this place was, ‘What’ n Kadai? So then I was told that Kuaizi means chopsticks. So KnK is a wholly vegetarian restaurant in Alipore, and their menu is said to have on offer bits of Indian, Chinese, Thai, Italian etc. I went there…
Aamlicious Festival@ Rajdhani Thali
We Indians have a special place for ‘Aam – the King of Fruits’ in our lives, and Aamras tops the list of summer dreams for many. On an invitation to Kolkata Food Bloggers, I visited Rajdhani, Park Street, to get a taste of their ongoing Aamlicious Festival. The place has quite a sizeable seating capacity,…
A Beautiful meal @ La Cucina, Hyatt
Of all the posh hotels of the city, I feel Hyatt stands out, and for all the right reasons. I have forever been in love with their Waterside cafe and had wanted to visit La Cucina for a long time. The servers were extremely polite, knowledgeable and efficient. The place is done up very tastefully,…
Pan Asian, ITC Sonar, Kolkata
Now this review is certainly long overdue. We visited this place for my sister’s anniversary dinner. The menu came in parts and was a little confusing and the service was painstakingly slow. But while we were waiting for our food to arrive, we could see the Japanese chef juggling his knives, eggs and coins and…
Lunching By The Lakes
The Lake-city of Udaipur had enthralled me ever since I first saw it. I loved the City Palace, the Jag Mandir, the shops selling the Knick-Knacks, the undulating cobbled streets of Lal Ghat, the hearty thaalis at Nataraj and of course, the eateries lining the Lake Pichola. I consciously took out the time to visit…
Spaghetti Kitchen, Kolkata
I love Spaghetti Kitchen. There’s something about it which seems to be magical. The view from the glass sides is not very amazing, but the tables with Mosaic tops, the complementary bread basket with warm, soft buns in various shapes and sizes, the coarse sea salt instead of the normal table salt everything adds up…
Bite.Chomp.Gulp 