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 [...]

Like the title says, most of us like salads in some form or another. No red blooded Punjabi would be caught eating mutton curry or any other meal without sliced onions, fresh breath be damned. Then we have those crisp crunchy salads in restaurants, dressed with yummy thousand island or perhaps a mayonnaise concoction.
Love them, [...]

Ashwin and I decided to meet up for dinner a few days back and we decided to visit Chor Bizarre, which is in the same complex as Oriental Octopus - Savoy Suites, Sector 16, NOIDA.
The decor is quite interesting, what with antiques and objets’d art dating back to the days of the Raj prominently displayed. [...]

Assisting a friend with picking up a digital camera, we landed up at Bembos for lunch. What caught my attention was the tag line ‘South American Burger Grill’. They don’t have a very exhaustive menu or a huge seating area, however, the service is friendly and efficient, and the menu is a bit different from [...]

The sauce of choice when dressing green salads.
You’ll need:

Pinch of salt
1 tbsp Vinegar
3 tablespoons oil [try olive]
pinch of pepper

Method:

Put salt into bowl
Put in vinegar and mix till it disolves
Add oil and pepper.
mix well.

Optionally, the vinegar could be substituted with lemon or orange juice depending on your salad. If you do so, the ratio 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 [...]