Sourish Bhattacharyya

Machan opens third innings with sassier new look

October 10, 2020

Not many five-star coffee shops in India can compete with the pedigree and fan following of Machan, which opened in 1978 at the Taj Mahal Hotel on Mansingh Road, New Delhi. It has hosted some of the country’s best-known politicians— from L.K. Advani to Arun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj, Kapil Sibal...

Quiche Time at L’Opera

October 3, 2020

If new food entrepreneurs have turned cloud kitchens into a viable business model, then established brands are discovering new markets through the home delivery model. Take L’Opera, which I believe is one of the country’s finest chain of stores for classical French confectionery. As its name suggests, you can’t get...

A Little Fire at Mist

October 3, 2020

IT’S a pity that Fire at The Park, which I can confidently describe as Delhi-NCR’s first Modern Indian restaurant that opened a little ahead of its time, is still shut, although the hotel, strategically located where Sansad Marg meets Connaught Place, has been busy throughout lockdown housing and serving the...

Reviving the Mystique of the Degh

October 3, 2020

The part about the ‘cloud kitchens’ story that I find most exciting is that chefs are pouring their creative juices into the business. One of them is Osama Jalali, who has converted his one-acre farm at Nangli Umarpur, at Sector-62, Gurgaon, into a massive kitchen with 12 wood-fired chulhas and...

There’s just no stopping ‘cloud kitchens’

October 3, 2020

One of the most heartening fallouts of the lockdown, which hit the hospitality sector severely, has been the many ways in which the industry has responded to the unprecedented crisis. Among these many ways, the one that stood out was the idea of ‘cloud kitchens’ taking off—and how! In the...

No-nonsense Vietnamese

September 26, 2020

When Viet Nom opened at Cyber Hub, Gurgaon, last year, I had ecstatically welcomed it as a restaurant that let its food do the talking. It had ventured into a territory—Vietnamese cuisine—no one had gone into before and its owners, Manish Sharma and Sahil Sambhi of Molecule fame, together with...

Serve Manish Mehrotra At Home!

September 26, 2020

Manish Mehrotra has never been in the rat race to become a celebrity chef, but fame follows him, whether he’s on Instagram or at Indian Accent, because of his inventive cuisine. One of his many creations is the Jackfruit (kathal) Phulka Taco, which is my favourite because kathal is one...

The food business is back in business & how

September 26, 2020

I have always maintained that no industry is as resilient or self-supporting as the hospitality sector, and it took a visit to the reopened The Great Kabab Factory (TGKF) to convince me that the worst is certainly over for the restaurant business, which took a severe hit during the pandemic,...

Poisons are subsidised, not organic farming

September 19, 2020

Like all reports produced by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), the one released some days back on the ‘State of Organic and Natural Farming in India: Challenges and Possibilities’ is yet another brilliant example of the organisation’s commitment to intensive field-based research. And like all honest reports, it...

Upward mobility in the time of lockdown

September 12, 2020

I believe that if each one of us who is fortunately placed in life can make a real difference, for starters, to the lives of our house help, we could contribute collectively to the unfinished task of rooting out poverty. I’d like to share how a couple, both outstanding professionals...

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