A delightful Saturday brunch option at Vivanta by Taj, Yeshwanthpur called Mou Taverna! Couple of weeks ago, an email landed in my mailbox announcing the launch of Saturday brunch at Vivanta by Taj, Yeshwanthpur and I smiled to myself thinking "oh, finally someone heard me". I have spent a lifetime (well, I know exaggerate) hoping someone would come up with a Saturday brunch. A place where one could chill, eat and drink on a Saturday. Sundays are good but the Sunday brunches started at a time … [Read more...]
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Watermelon & Prawn Salad
A delicious watermelon & prawn salad which celebrates summer! Delicious to eat and super healthy too! So the title of this post originally was "Summer musings and recipe for Watermelon & Prawn Salad", I looked at the draft in my dashboard and chuckled since the summer is long gone and the monsoon is almost ending too. The post has sat in my drafts for so long. If I look closely, I might have drafts even older than those sitting on my dashboard. So starting today, I am going to clear … [Read more...]
Menu of the Week 20th July & Recipe Links
Menu of the Week and some recipe links for your weekly planning! So lots of you wrote in saying they would love to see my menu of the week on the blog with recipe links. So this week on wards, every Sunday evening, I will post the menu of the week here along with as many recipe links as possible. Some from my blog and some from others and hopefully I will get around posting more and more recipes which are missing. So here are the recipe links/notes. Rocket … [Read more...]
Quick Cooking : Fish DoPyaza
A beautiful fish curry - Fish DoPyaza done in 20 minutes! A perfect quick meal option! We, at home, are fish lovers and one of the most common dish I make is, Fish doPyaza. It uses ingredients you can count on fingers and is ready in under 20 minutes. With dal and rice, this is the like the perfect weekday dinner. But I am always making it in a hurry and I have never got around really photographing it. Last week, I just took a quick cellphone shot and posted on instagram asking if I should do a … [Read more...]
Indulge in some Authentic South Indian Food
Delicious authentic South Indian food! I discovered a whole new cuisine when I moved to Bangalore :) So I moved to Bangalore about 13 years ago. I have mentioned this before on the blog but I will say it again when I moved here all I knew about South Indian food was Idly and Dosa, oh yes Uttapam and vada too. These were the starting and ending of the range of South Indian food for me. They were served with sambhar and chutney and I could eat them anytime of the day. May be I knew the occasional … [Read more...]
Global Grills at The Polo Club, Oberoi
Global Grills at The Polo Club, Oberoi: A delightful festival! I love Oberoi, it is one of my favorite 5-stars in the town. The ambiance is gorgeous and the food always special. Everything that is served is well thought, the flavours are clean and yet so complex. The service at Oberoi is outstanding too, in a nutshell the experience while dining out in one of their restaurants is always pleasant and satisfying. The Polo Club is currently running a Global Grills festival all of Feb, the idea is … [Read more...]
Alila Bangalore : The Tiffin Room
Alila Bangalore: A farm to table concept with the restaurant encouraging local produce. Sometime ago, in the deluge of all the invites that come to the mailbox everyday, I read an invite that stood out a bit. An invite that spoke about "Farm to Table" concept and how Alila is trying to encourage local farmers and more and bringing out the in a refined modern cuisine to the table. Whether its the Vallombrosa cheese by Father Michael from the outskirts of Bangalore or Nitin Sagi and his firm that … [Read more...]
Four Points By Sheraton, Whitefield, Bangalore
Four Points by Sheraton at Bangalore is a great place to stay if you are on business trips to Bangalore! The other day I was discussing with N on what makes business hotel a good business hotel. Something that stands out, something you would like to go back to again, frequently on business trips. I have been traveling on work a lot working on an exciting new consulting project. Setting up the menu of an upcoming restaurant, but more on that later. So this travel made me think yet again, as I … [Read more...]
Citibank Restaurant Week 2014 : Dining at Alto Vino, Marriott Whitefield
Citibank Restaurant Week 2014: My experiences dining at Alto Vino, Marriott Whitefield. Citibank Restaurant week is a time to enjoy good food, to indulge and to experience the best of the eating joints (including a lot of 5-stars too) in a price which is very affordable. At a fabulous price point of Rs 900 + taxes to me Citibank Restaurant week is almost like a week long celebration of eating out. This year the week has already started on 19th Sep and is running till 28th Sep. I was invited … [Read more...]