Chef at Large

Ashwin (of MentorLink fame) took us out to an Afghani restaurant yesterday.A foodie himself, Ashwin likes finding restaurants and places to eat in little known places. “Before they start dishing out commercial crap”, are his words on the subject.
Anyhow, more of an eating house than a restaurant the way we all expect it, Afghan is [...]

Chonas has set up shop in the Great India Place, NOIDA and opened it’s doors to diners recently. We went there in the middle of some birthday shopping on Saturday (yeah, my birthday). It’s an unpretentious place with severely uncomfortable chairs, friendly staff and slightly steep prices compared to the food they serve.
Being in a [...]

We were shopping yesterday and I saw this place that I’d never visited - Nazeems. Thinking I’d pop in for a quick snack, I headed over. Located in a corner of sector 18, NOIDA, Nazeems claims to have been serving the public since Adam. Inside, it has a college canteen kind of decor and the [...]

We’ve done it again. We’ve taken a movie from Hollywood and mindlessly copied it, inserted a few songs and then coyly admit to the press that ‘I was inspired by so and so movie’.
Take Krazzy 4. We went to see the movie last weekend. While I was asleep throughout the second half, in all fairness [...]

Wok and Talk is a part of the Spoon Food Court, in the Great India Place, NOIDA. Just like any other food court, you can take in the many aromas wafting around the place, the hubbub of many people talking at once and the occasional loud crash of a strike at the bowling alley ahead.
The [...]

Meeting with some long lost friends, their parents, their children and so on, we landed up at Fortune Cookie on Friday night.
It’s a nice place really - the owner is an ex-shippie who has ransacked his house and placed all his collected oriental artifacts in the restaurant. Decorated with an overpowering shade of red, The [...]

I went for lunch today to Superstars in Sector 18, NOIDA with an old friend, who I was meeting after nearly 14 years.
They haven’t spared any expense in doing up the place and have probably paid a pretty penny for the decor. A pool table, glass floors, huge bar, a music system that can be [...]

Mexican Mania is a part of the Spoon Food Court, in the Great India Place, NOIDA. The ambience is what you would expect in any mall food court – loud music, the buzz of people everywhere, the sizzle of food cooking, intermingling aromas of different cuisines et al.
The available menu is rather sparse, and the [...]

For a place that claims to be krazy about kebabs, this one sure doesn’t live up to its name. The main dining area on the first floor comprises 5 tables / 20 covers. The décor could probably be a little more imaginative, as all the tables are laid end to end without any variation in [...]

The Lounge is what Mosaic hotels calls a Pastry Shop. In reality, it is little more than a glass counter filled mostly with sweet pastries and a coffee machine behind it. This setup, for some reason, is located bang adjacent the lobby and is a bit too integrated with it.
The décor so to say, is [...]