Banga Bhavan’s restaurant is run by Bijoli Grill. Basic, but a clean restaurant, we landed there on a Sunday afternoon. And found that they make the Bengali Biryani only for the weekends. I of course didn’t need to look at the menu after this, but Jayanta, wanted his Kosha Mangsho […]
Bihar Niwas’s canteen is run like a restaurant by professionals. It is called Potbelly…and is mighty famous! Going by the number of cars parked outside and the waiting time on weekends, you will be confused if it’s actually located in a ‘state bhavan’. Potbelly is located in a lovely bylane […]
The Old Delhi food trail is nothing short of a romance with not only food, but also tradition and history. One place deep fries it stuffed paranthas and Nehruji too loved them, while another place has not stopped selling only Dahi Bhalle and Aloo Tikki since 1940, another place uses […]
We started our second stint of NCR-living with a good stroll of the Lodhi Gardens a couple of weeks ago. A green oasis in these times of non-stop concretisation everywhere else, we have, all over again, fallen in love with Lodhi gardens. For, it takes you back to the basics […]
Delhi’s food history/story is folklore. That Delhites feel strongly about their food is an understatement. Which is why, every gulli, nukad of every neighbourhood, especially old neighbourhoods, has the best chaatwala, tandoori chicken wala, paranthe-wala…and so on…Old Delhi eateries date back to the 19th century, while the ‘newer’ Delhi allures […]
We were in Jaipur over the Diwali holidays this year. Mostly, to run away from Gurgaon’s polluted Diwali air. And also, to make the best use of the extended weekend, exploring the traditional restaurants, eateries of Jaipur. For, we had been there earlier, and had done the usual tours of […]
This summer, unlike other summers, we didn’t go on our customary two-week holiday. That’s because, we moved bag and baggage from Mumbai to Gurgaon, just when the days were getting oppressively hot. By the time we managed to get rid of all the cartons in our house, stack away all […]
Times, how they change. Or, maybe, how we change over time. As kids, during our Kolkata vacations, we hated the sight of the dilapidated buildings of Bara Bazar, the narrow and ever-crowded streets of Shyam Bazar and accused Kolkata of never changing. And now, after decades, one look at the […]