Beaujolais Nouveau Day is marked in France on the *Third Thursday in November* and this year Mr. Damien Syed, Consul General of…
Kolkata Kathi Roll – Part 1
If we have to find any icon for Kolkata non-sweet food, probably, it’ll be the Kathi Roll. Few meat pieces, rolled in…
A sheherwali evening in Kolkata
Vegetarian cuisine is generally not my cup of tea. But when someone proudly boasts that it IS the best vegetarian cuisine, and…
Cal27 and sharing some food stories
Generally speaking, in any big hotel, five star or above I mean to say, the coffee shop is one of the most…
Cafe – a slice of old Calcutta
There is a Calcutta hidden inside the underbelly of Kolkata. People there are still the quintessential bong type- intellectual, easy-to-go-with, less pushy…
Going back to the roots- Samvad at Tata Group
Somehow, I am not a rustic person. That “mera gaon mera desh” wala feelings somehow never come to me. For a couple…
An escapade at Westin Kolkata
I was getting mind-f#$%ed shuttling between home and work and idle mind was becoming devil’s workshop. While I couldn’t go out on…
Blogger’s cook off at Baan Thai, Oberoi Grand
It was a working afternoon and suddenly my inbox signaled me of a new mail. At my age, once, a mail comes,…
2 cafes – one vision, different path and Mohamushkil
Recently, I’ve been to 2 cafe, which I found quite different from the usual run of the mill numerous ones. Both cafes…
Manicktola- the new Kachori capital inside Kolkata ?
Kachori is gluttony and gluttony is a sin- but then who cares? So, the slight chilliness is in the air. Winter is…