Now, a restaurant on wheels on Mumbai streets!
Hop on board The Moving Cart and let Hardik Shah and John Dias take you for a culinary ride. Apart from the three-course meal, they promise to offer an experience no other restaurant possibly can.If you're in the habit of taking a stroll down Marine Drive, one of these days you're bound to spot a br...
Try these mouth-watering dishes made from burnt food
But we can help you douse the flames and create a delicacy out of a burnt dish. Phorum Dalal speaks to chefs for recipes and tips to conjure an entirely new dish from something you set fire to by mistake. Be it lentils, vegetables or meat if you burn it, rest assured there's a way out.A few years ag...
Buried in the back of beyond, Saha Astitva in Ganeshpuri offers a slice of organic living, but only if you're willing to pluck, cook and eat. A two-hour drive will connect you with nature, the stars, organic farming and even meditation, la Elizabeth Gilbert (Remember Eat, Pray, Love?)In hindsight, a...
Make way for Batman's sweet mobile
She's known as the Batman of baking and chooses to keep her identity a secret to save Mumbai from boring desserts. Newly-launched, moving pop-up dessert shop, Sweetish House Mafia has already gained fans with just two outings in one week.This young investment banker aims to deliver sweetness to the ...
After reading this review, we are sure that more Mumbaikars might want to ditch the humble white sliced bread for full grain varieties. The idea might get even more appealing to act upon, if you happen to be in the vicinity of new artisan bread shop, The Bakers Dozen.A beautiful black-and-white boar...
Why use the powdered version when you can flavour your food with fresh herbs from your kitchen garden? Urban gardeners and chefs tell you what to grow at home."What could be better than eating fresh produce right from your balcony garden," asks Chef Ajay Chopra, who admits to being heavily inspired ...
Healthy food that's tasty too? Now who'd believe that? But we were pleasantly surprised when we tried some of the stuff that Bunk The Junk, the online healthy food store had to offer. It's affordable and obviously helps you shed the flab.When was the last time you munched on lettuce leaves and roast...
With the mercury levels soaring, nothing brings as much a whoop of joy as a colourful, chilled gola bursting with flavours. Here are our picks of unique, quirky golas across flavours and sizes including variants like the Latin American Paleta and the American popsicle.When gola met MargaritaPic/Abhi...
The Guide heads out to check out the recently-opened Drunken Munkey to see if it meets the tight competition in the crowded suburb of Andheri.
Mumbai dabbawalas seek taxi permits to supplement income
Mumbai's famous dabbawalas now want to drive cabs to supplement their meager monthly income, earned by ferrying thousands of lunch-boxes daily, an office-bearer said here Wednesday."The state government is planning to revive and release around 14,000 new taxi permits for Mumbai and its suburbs. We w...
Juhu Beach Club restaurant in California
Celebrity American chef Preeti Mistry talks about how her Indian restaurant that serves vada pav, Bombay sandwich, sassy lassi and Limca among other items, is doing great business in Okaland, California.Preeti Mistry started Juhu Beach Club as a pop-up restaurant in front of a liquor store with a sm...
Mumbai's iconic Iranian restaurant Sassanian turns 100
Dhobi Talao's 100-yr-old Irani Cafe Sassanian Boulangerie still stands strong. They may not sell packets of Polson butter any more, but the brun pav, bread pudding, and the latest additions to their menu dhansak and sizzlers continue to attract loyal fans. Moeena Halim and Suresh KK take a trip down...
Vegan movement thrives in Mumbai
Vegans across Mumbai are networking big time over potluck parties, cook-offs and cycling expeditions to make sure they support each other.Even before Monika Siriya answers her door, I can hear dogs barking in the background. "That's Rapchik and Dhinchak," says the 29-year-old, pointing to her two pe...
The sixth edition of Restaurant Week, the largest pan-India culinary event, is going to last three days longer and has a lot more participating restaurants.With 27 restaurants to sample over a period of 10 days foodies in the city are in for a royal treat. The organizers of Restaurant Week, during w...
Meet Ulric Nijs, the anthropologist bartender
How many bartenders do you know with a degree from the London School of Economics and who can talk intelligently about political strife in Rwanda and the after-effects of sipping vodka infused with Viagra? Celebrated mixologist Ulric Nijs who's been there, done that, enlightens Dhiman Chattopadhyay ...
On the Mumbai Dabbawalla's trail
Shobha Bondre's translated title, Mumbai's Dabbawallas, gives an honest insight into the pulse of this ever-expanding city and its indigenous food line the Dabbawalla.After the downpour of information regarding Mumbai's Dabbawallas, in the last few years, Shobha Bondre's translated version of Marath...
Vegetarian steaks now feature on the menus of select gourmet restaurants in the city. Sonal Ved taps the trend....Imagine an angel suddenly sweeping down out of a better land and setting before him a mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the griddle; dusted with ...
Don't let your Holi party be a parade of old-fashioned eats. Sonal Ved puts together a modern home's festive menu.
Has SOBO rediscovered its mojo
Nearly on the verge of being written off as a possible destination for early retirement options, South Mumbai might have finally got that much-needed shot in the arm, as its culinary landscape witnesses a revival. What sparked off this turnaround? The GUIDE investigates."How many of you have been to...
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