Chef at Large

Thought I’d pop in for a quick bite and read while the family shopped at the Great India Place. I’m gradually getting over my aversion to trying new places and Pizzaria Express looked as good as any other. It’s a new place started by a chap named Raghuvir Sahai. According to Mr. Sahai, he has [...]

We awoke to watery sunshine then went back to sleep.  We dozed for ages, it was so relaxing.  We read and drank coffee then went for a drive at about 3.00pm, by which time it was raining again.  We climbed Mont D’Or where D had been the previous evening but the 56 steps of the [...]

Another one of Zainab’s recipes (as are nearly all my posts in the last 3 weeks), this pizza combines the flavor of red onions and tomatoes.
Red onions are stronger than the normal white or yellow onions that we usually use and have a slightly different flavor as well. I don’t know why they’re called ‘red’ [...]

We visited Sbarro this past weekend. Sometime in the future, we may visit snake infested amazonian jungles when bored, jump off cliffs with bedsheets and attempt to fly and perhaps even sit on the kerb and count the number of men with moles on their noses.
However, you will probably not see us at Sbarro again.
It’s [...]

We’ve ordered numerous times from Papa Johns, Sector 18, NOIDA and eaten in the dine in area a few times too. There really isn’t anything to distinguish this place from the other pizza joints in the area.Their staff is just as bumbling, the pizza tastes just as ordinary and the add-ons quite run of the [...]

I have always had a very deep personal attachment to Nirulas. This was where I tasted my first Banana Split and probably had my first taste of Indianised fast food. I say ‘had’, because over the last five years or so, the quality of the chain has been descending to never before depths in just [...]

We decided to pop over to Nirulas in Sector 2 NOIDA on Friday evening. We have gradually been getting more and more disillusioned with the quality of *every* thing at Nirulas lately, but for ‘old times sake’ always give it another chance every once in 6 months or so. While the quality of service [...]