Xian is a new entrant to the fine dining scene at NOIDA. Though a new restaurant is very welcome to the stark culinary vista in NOIDA, we do wish the food was as good as the interiors.

I’m trying to return to the kitchen, and coming back home to cook every afternoon is one of the ways in which I’m trying to get back to cooking. These were our lunches for this past week.

Pawan Soni checks out the Independence Day festival at Coriander Leaf, Gurgaon where they have 64 dishes from all over the country to commemorate 64 years of independence. Predictable or great?

Pawan called us over for a lovely and very enjoyable evening and even took the time to review the food at Chin Chin. It does have one of the nicest home delivery menus I’ve seen BTW.

Amit Uppal visited Pind Balluchi in Connaught Place and was pleasantly surprised. We can’t say that about many franchise/multi location restaurants.

Sonny Rao shares his thoughts and personal recipe for Masor Tenga, one of the most popular Assamese dishes, both in and out of Assam. This is a must read as Sonny shares quite a few details.

Most of us who aren’t from the South of India don’t imagine drumsticks to be in anything other than Sambhar. Vinny shares a recipe for Drumstick soup!

Diya at the Leela Kempinski is hosting a Goan Food Festival and we tried out a bunch of their offerings. Should you visit?

Asia7 offers 7 different Asian cuisines to it’s diners. While the multi-cuisine concept isn’t really new to us Indians what with most restaurants offering Punjabi, South Indian, Chinese and Mughlai at a minimum, 7 Asian cuisines in a fine dining format is definitely innovative. Does the food measure up though?

This dish was the result of having a little too much coconut milk at hand. It tasted quite nice, comforting in a way and went quite well with white rice. I daresay some Papads/Poppadoms would go well too!