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Grill on a Hill, Dwarka

By Sid • Feb 8th, 2010 • Category: Reviews

Grill on a Hill is a new restaurant in Dwarka. Does it fulfill it’s ambitions of serving great food in a sophisticated ambiance? We found out for you.



Attitude, Gurgaon

By Sid • Dec 26th, 2009 • Category: Reviews

A recently opened pub in Gurgaon, Attitude claims to have it all – good food, live music, separate smoking zones et al. How good are they really?



Brown Sahib, MGF Mall, Saket

By Sid • Nov 20th, 2009 • Category: Reviews

The latest entrant to the fine dining scene in Delhi, Brown Sahib claims to serve authentic Bengali food in a fine dining format. Is it fine dining? Is the food authentic at Brown Sahib? Read on to find out.



Missionaries of Charity

By Sid • Aug 18th, 2009 • Category: Columns

The Missionaries of Charity are an organization started by Mother Teresa. Doing different things and serving different purposes all over the country, I happened to visit one in Kanpur. It was an experience I will never forget. Please take 5 minutes to read this article and do what you can.



Fire, The Park Hotel, Connaught Place, New Delhi

By Sid • Jul 4th, 2009 • Category: Reviews

Fire is the Indian restaurant at the Park Hotel, Connaught Place, New Delhi. Rated as the best Indian restaurant by the HT City Eating Out Guide for three years in a row, Fire has a warm and cosy ambience with attentive serving staff and comfortable seating. Read on to learn how it fared.



Olan

By Sid • May 15th, 2009 • Category: Recipes

Olan is a Malayali (Kerala) dish. It is a delicious vegetarian curry with black eyed beans and pumpkin, stewed in coconut milk and flavored with coconut oil, ginger and curry leaves. Olan goes very well with hot steamed rice.



How to Cook Indian Food – North India

By Sid • May 9th, 2009 • Category: Columns

Indian food needs a little getting used to, especially the procedures and spices. This article attempts to simplify the basics behind cooking Indian food, lists some of the most commonly used spices and includes three recipes in different degrees of complexity.



Oh Calcutta, Nehru Place, New Delhi

By Vinny • Apr 2nd, 2009 • Category: Reviews

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Foodbuzz 24, 24, 24: The Taste of India

By Sid • Mar 1st, 2009 • Category: Columns

When the Foodbuzz call came in Feb, I was in the middle of researching tasting menus, in terms of the timing, layout and selection of courses. So that’s what I proposed, a kind of tasting menu, composed entirely of Indian food. Indian food doesn’t traditionally have the concept of courses, so a tasting menu is [...]



Dona Sylvia, Goa

By Sid • Oct 23rd, 2008 • Category: Reviews

Work has been more busy than I’ve ever seen it to be. A good example would be the day before yesterday, when I finally pulled my face out of the keyboard, stretched and exclaimed how good it was that I’d finished earlier than normal that day… and saw the time to be 5:47pm.
A post on [...]