Royal Tulip Luxury HotelThis five star hotel will give you an
opportunity to welcome the New Year in the Las Vegas style. From flaring
bartenders and mystic fireworks to lucky draws...
The Park, CBD BelapurYour kids will surely have fun here! There is a
separate buffet for the tiny tots and bangle makers, tarot readers,
caricature artists, will be called to keep...
Fortune Select Exotica, VashiThis hotel plans to create a one-day
Goa for you right there. The main attractions would include live Goan
band performances, variety of other dance...
The Regenza by Tunga, VashiThis hotel plans to have a relaxed party
for a change. The chefs at the hotel have decided to offer its patrons
an appetising buffet, especially created...
Royal Orchid Central Garzia, VashiAt this hotel, you can have a
relaxed dinner with your loved ones. It plans to treat its patrons to a
lavish buffet spread. Twilight, the rooftop...
Yogi Executive, VashiThis place will give couples an opportunity to
enjoy some private moments together on their rooftop and has unlimited
cocktails, mocktails on offer. At Curry...
Rockville Bar and Dinner, CBD BelapurThis place will host a Goan
theme party for you this New Year’s eve. The staff will be dressed in
traditional Goan attires and delicacies such...
Vasundhara restaurant and lounge bar, VashiAre you planning a
vampire party sleepover? If yes, then do not miss Vasundhara’s vampire
night-themed party this New Year’s eve. Casual...
Cult Lounge, BelapurWith DJ Inhertia playing at the lounge, the
organisers promise to keep you moving all night long. The lounge will
serve its patrons scrumptious food and great...
Indulge lounge, CBD BelapurA pirate theme party will be hosted at
this lounge, this New Year’s eve. A pirate ship will be created and many
props will be given out at the party including...
Four Points by SheratonThis place assures a great beginning to your
New Year. There will be rocking music and scrumptious delights to tickle
your taste buds and you can also choose...
Plum cake
By Corniche
Ingredients:
Dry fruit mix (1kg)
n 250 gms red glazed cherry
n 125 gms tutti fruiti
n 100 gms cashew nuts
n 125 gms raisins
n 25 gms orange peel
n...
Coffee Frosted Brownies
By Adele Fernandes, Slice of Life
Ingredients:
n 150 gms all-purpose flour
n 330 gms sugar
n 4 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
n 1 tsp baking powder
n 1 tsp...
Mud cake
By Chef Sanjay Kachave, Pastry Chef, Courtyard by Marriott, Mumbai International Airport
Ingredients:
n 500 gms butter
n 500 gms chocolate
n 8 eggs whole
n 8 eggs yolk
n...
Cake Pops
By Robin Chatterjee, Yogurtbay
Ingredients:
n 250 gms chocolate (dark or white or nutella brownie cake crumbs)
n 100 gms chocolate (white or dark or milk) for ganache
n...
Almond and Chocolate Pie
By Chef Nachiket Shetye, 36 Oak & Barley
Ingredients:
n ½ cup bittersweet or semisweet chocolate, chopped
n 3 tbsp unsalted butter
n 1 ¼ cups dark...
Gingerbread Men
By Tart
Ingredients:
n 100 gms brown sugar
n 100 gms golden syrup
n 225 gms plain flour
n ¼ tsp salt
n 2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
n 1 heaped tsp ground ginger
n...
German Stollen
By Chef Vasant Khot, Sr. Pastry Chef, Holiday Inn Mumbai International Airport
Ingredients:
n ¾ cups flour
n 1 cup powder sugar or icing sugar
n ½ cup lukewarm...
Bake and you shall have it!
As the city takes on a festive air this season, we at DNA tried to
recreate an almost perfect setting not just for ourselves but for our
readers...
UP IN THE AIR
BALLOONS ARE ALWAYS FUN AND THEY ADD A LOT OF COLOUR TO ANY CHRISTMAS PARTY
Available
in fascinating colours,shapes,sizes and themes,balloons always...
Celebrate the festive spirit with good food
It’s
that time of the year when we pray for peace, happiness and lots of
goodies from good ol’ Santa. So gear...
Hot offers on chilly evenings
Hangla’s has recently
introduced a budget menu — specially priced and portioned biryani and
tikia rolls at low prices. Their...
Goan Fiesta
Mumbai’s popular hotspot Goa Portuguesa Restobar
recently celebrated its 24th anniversary at their parent Matunga
branch. The globally awarded,...
Join a midnight tea party
Starting at midnight today, painters, poets, actors and sculptors
dressed in Victorian costumes will perform, swirl in circles,...
A WINNING STEED
A meal at Cheval, French for horse, proves to be well worth the gamble. Be sure to bet on dessert
Cheval is French for horse. The Kala Ghoda eatery’s...
Eat
ThursdayTuck into a lavish brunch that features a
wide-spread of Italian, European, Mediterranean and Japanese dishes
created by Chef Paul Kinny. Relax and unwind...
Taste of punjab
Vashi resident Neebha Shah loves experimenting with various cuisines.
She enjoys cooking for her husband and two kids. This 32-year-old
homemaker likes to...
This thick soup is the perfect simple meal for a chilly evening.
Actually, you can use any potatoes for this soup. I chose to use purple
potatoes because they are different and...
Food for all!
The 10th edition of the annual food festival promises a plethora of there
Foodies ahoy! The UpperCrust Food Show — an annual
three-day long food extravaganza...
{ BO D Y B EA U TI F U L }
The healthy sweet tooth
EVEN
THE MOST HEALTH-CONSCIOUS PEOPLE WANT TO BE ABLE TO INDULGE A LITTLE
DURING THE HOLIDAY SEASON. TIME ’N STYLE BEAUTY...
Special seafood menu at Marriott
Lotus Café brings out the best and the freshest variety of crustaceans
and exotic seafood. Feast on King Tiger prawn, Bay of Bengal...
Calling all food lovers
Sai
Sannidhi, among the best seafood restaurants in the suburbs, is out
with a new lipsmacking kebab menu. Established in 1969, Sai...
A royal culinary experience
Rajdhani’s
Rasovara — The Royal Kitchen — is the first ever luxury thali
restaurant that personifies true luxury dining experience....
I don’t usually make predictions about the hotel business – it is
too risky – but I’m going to make one now: I would be very, very
surprised if, within the next five years, Kapil...
When the Leela Palace opened, none of us expected very much in
F&B terms. We had experienced the Leela’s brand of F&B before:
at the Leela in Gurgaon. And it was fine,...
There are loads of lifetime achievement awards for hoteliers. But
restaurateurs get short shrift. So here’s my attempt to redress the
balance: a lifetime achievement award...
Captain Nair will probably kill me for saying this but until the
Leela Palace opened in Delhi, I never rated the group very highly in
cuisine terms (except...
This award is a no-brainer. Those of us who follow chefs always knew
that Manish is a genius. But ever since he won Foodistan, became a
public figure and featured...
It is hard for a manager to shine in a chef-driven restaurant. But if
you ask me, the spirit of Diva, Ritu Dalmia’s flagship Italian
restaurant in GK II, is not Ritu herself but...
I sometimes think that the one thing that makes the Taj group so special
is the calibre of its middle-level managers and their dedication to the
spirit of the Taj. Take The Orient...
If you need proof that India is changing, consider this: when the Oberoi
closed down Kandahar, its Indian restaurant, and opened a deli in that
vast space, who could have imagined...
I’ll be honest with you: I never thought Prasanjit Singh could
pull it off for so long. Though Prasanjit now does many other things,
Setz, the restaurant he...
In my wilder moments I sometimes think of 360 as Augusto’s Sushi
Bar. Ever since the restaurant first opened, Augusto Cabrera has been
the restaurant’s sushi and sashimi chef...
I don’t think there has ever been a European restaurant like Chez
Nini in India before. The owner cooks every single meal, goes up to
tables to check how guests are doing...
When Le Cirque opened, I was sceptical. I’m no fan of the New York
original which saw its best days when Ronald Reagan was President, and
where snobbery is the service policy....
I knew Tres would be good even before it opened: the chef Julia Carmen
Desa, a Taj veteran, is talented and versatile and coowner Fatima Lobo,
also an old Taj hand, has a real feel...
The best brunch award is a difficult one to select. I’m still partial to
the Machan brunch, brilliantly run by Tapash Bhattacharya, but the
restaurant itself looks...
Though Digvijay Singh leaves the Taj Mansingh early next year, his place in the hotel’s history is ensured: he is the guy who
transformed the image of this 1970s-style business hotel...
The Oberoi group has no reputation for Indian cuisine. The old
Mughal Rooms were Kwalityclones and the Kandahar menu consisted of
dishes stolen from ITC. So it made sense...
Blair, Bruce Springsteen and all of the restaurant’s other celebrity
guests have not already said? It is the most famous Indian restaurant in
the world with a menu that has remained...
The Royal China group in London is a loose federation of separately
owned properties, some of which are very good and some of which are just
so-so. It is the same in India. The...
Ever since it opened half a decade ago, China Kitchen has rewritten all
the rules for Chinese restaurants in India. Created by global Hyatt
chefs along the lines of the chain’s...
A new hangout for tea-totallers
Invented on the streets of Taiwan in the ’80s, Bubble Tea originally
consisted of sweetened, cold green or milk tea to which...
A SLICEOF HEAVEN
MAMMA MIA! One of London’s oldest pizzerias,
Pizza Metro Pizza, comes to the city with authentic Italian cooking, and
its speciality — the metre-long...
Restaurant Review
BIJOLI GRILL Bengali
First
the bad news and then the good news follows. I admit that I’m a
see-theglass-as-half-full person (love happy...