New Place in Town: Quattro Ristorante Brings Molecular Gastronomy to Hyderabad

Molecular Gastronomy has been making waves all over the world especially during the last couple of years. While in India, restaurants like the Farzi Café and Caperberry have become very popular in this field, Quattro Ristorante, a restaurant chain serving Mexican and Italian cuisine is a pioneer in imbibing this new style of cooking in their vegetarian dishes.

DIY Nachos

The New Menu Launch at Deccan Pavilion, ITC Kakatiya

Most successful restaurants rejig their menus periodically to provide refreshing variations to their regular diners. The Pavilion all-day dining restaurants at ITC Hotels all over India have a system where the menu is revamped every two years. Intense interactions between the senior chefs of the hotels lead to the design of this new menu. On 17th December 2016, the menu was launched nationwide through simultaneous Influencer meet at the various Pavilion restaurants across the country.

Food Walk with Sensodyne at Banjara Hills

Food walks are always fun as you explore new areas for food with a select group of friends. The walks to the Charminar area on a Sunday morning, Tolichowki during Ramzan, and Sindhi Colony for some special food are very popular with the food lovers of Hyderabad. That is why, when Sensodyne, in association with So Hyderabad, invited me for a food walk to explore select destinations of Banjara Hills, I was quite interested.

This was a food walk with a difference – it was to bring to the fore the issue of tooth sensitivity and to help people enjoy the hot and cold food that they enjoy. #EnjoyLikeYouShould was the motto with which a group of food bloggers and another group of regular users of Sensodyne suffering tooth sensitivity issues, visited three well-known cafes and restaurants tasting the delicacies offered by them.

Festival Feed: Wok’s Hot at The Square, Novotel HICC

The Square, all day dining restaurant at Novotel, Hitech city has always been rated very high by the food lovers of Hyderabad. The restaurant, which serves one of the best buffets in town, organizes quite a few niche promotions from time to time to augment the experience of its regular diners. “Wok’s Hot”, a festival of Oriental cuisine is the latest in this endeavour.

Sushi Platter

Festival Feed: Set Menu of Food Paired with Fratelli Wines at Mercure Hyderabad

Events on wine appreciation, as well as food pairing with wine, are much in demand in recent times, and the wine brands, as well as the star properties, have taken a lot of initiatives to introduce these to the discerning gourmets. A new promotion at Cayenne, the all-day dining restaurant at Mercure KCP Hyderabad pairs the popular wine range from Fratelli with some exquisite dishes prepared by the in-house team of chefs.

New Place In Town: Dhaba by Claridges comes to Hyderabad

Dhaba by Claridges is one of the best-known restaurants in Delhi serving Punjabi cuisine Initially known as the in-house restaurant of Claridges Hotel at Lutyens, the dhaba styled fine dining outlet has been delighting the Delhi food lovers for the last thirty years. A few years back, the restaurant decided to expand by opening three new outlets in the National Capital Region. I had the chance to experience their hospitality at DLF Saket, and still remember the décor with an actual truck inside the premises.