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The Baishakhi Meal at J W Marriott, Bangalore

Baishakhi Meal at J W Marriott, Bangalore is a great festival to attend! Baishakhi spells home for me. Though I am an out and out Delhi girl and not the pure blood Punjabi but festivals always tend to bring out your roots. Unfortunately in Bangalore nothing happens for Baishakhi and when J W Marriott, Bangalore called me saying they are having a Baishakhi Meal special with Chef Jolly, I wad delighted to accept the invitation. The terrace of J W Marriott was done up like a typical Punjabi … [Read more...]

Citibank Restaurant Week India : Caperberry

The Citibank Restaurant Week India is an awesome festival organized in Bangalore! I have said this before and I say it again Citibank Restaurant Week India is one of my favorite food festivals in the town. Well organised and it showcases some of the best places in the city. It opens to public for delightful 10 days tomorrow morning and this is where you can see the menus and book your tables. This time around I picked up Caperberry for the preview meal of RWI, its … [Read more...]

Street Food Festival at Social Offline

An interesting street food festival at Social Offline Bangalore! Social Offline is one of those cool hangout places in Bangalore which is ALWAYS buzzing with activity and it also one of those places where I feel OLD when I go so as a result, I always end up going to Social for breakfast when the college crowd has still not woken up and gotten there, I like their food - it's delicious and its fun, those lovely plates from the olden times, the kheema pav and all. I love their drinks they are … [Read more...]

When our favorite Monkey learnt new tricks : Monkey Bar’s new menu

An interesting new menu at Monkey Bar, Wood Street, Bangalore. It is always delightful when your favorite place in town (Monkey Bar) decides to stir things up by introducing a new menu. So sometime ago, I went there to sample whats new. The menu brief had things like "Reddy Chicken", "Chicken Katsu Burger" along side some very exciting drinks and I was looking forward to the afternoon at Wood Street (I am partial to that one and that is one that is running the new menu too) sampling the new … [Read more...]

Club Mahindra Kandaghat, Himachali Thali and A Cooking Class!

When you combine travel and food, it is a euphoric high nothing else can replace. My experience of Club Mahindra and the brilliant hospitality of Kandaghat, Himachal. And a cooking class, too! I absolutely love travel and I love food and when an opportunity knocks at my door which can combine both how can I say no. Sometime ago Club Mahindra , Kandaghat invited a bunch of bloggers (about 5 of us - Lakshmi Sharath, Deepak of magiceye, Vishal of the brilliant photography blog and Kishi Arora … [Read more...]

World Baking Day 2014 : Lets Bake A Long

Its World Baking Day and so lets get baking together! Its World Baking Day on 18th May, so get baking folks. Bake for your loved ones, a cookie, a cake, a brownie. Anything you fancy. Who wants to do a bake along? I will post a recipe tomorrow morning and we all bake and post pictures? I asked this on my FB page yesterday and the response I got was very encouraging. So here I am with a list of 10 recipes that I found interesting and exciting to bake, you can choose from these or you can pick … [Read more...]

Bathua Raita : Eating your Greens

Super easy to make - the crunch of the tadka and the hit of heeng along with green chillies take this simple yet delectable dish to the next level - the versatility of this Bathua raita is amazing too! I love my greens, in every way. Mixed in dals, in salads, in paranthas as saags and in raitas. Actually especially in raitas. Bathua’s scientific name is Chenopodium album and is commonly known as Lamb's Quarters in English. It is also known as pigweed, goosefoot, and wild spinach. It is a very … [Read more...]

Remembering My Granny and Channa Dal Stuffed Karelas

While Karelas are not everyone's favorite vegetables, I have some amazing memories of my granny associated with these channa dal stuffed karelas. The channa dal stuffed karelas are a labour of love, but trust me, this is one recipe which will make even a I-do-not-like-Karela person into a Oh-but-this-is-a-great-way-to-eat-them person :) I have said it over here many times before that food is 50% nostalgia and everything else comes in the rest of the 50% and a huge part of that … [Read more...]

Om Made Cafe, Kormangala

Om Made Cafe, Kormangala is a lovely place with some interesting food options! Imagine walking into something as gorgeous as above in the middle of mad Kormangala, spacious well lit, in fact open part open air, pretty tastefully done. On a chilly Bangalore evening, it's a delight as it is on a winter sunny afternoon. Another thing that holds in favour of Om Cafe is that they have wine and needless to stay we started with some. Good rosette, Zinfandel Rose those who … [Read more...]