Food awards need a review too
By Anoothi Vishal Restaurant awards are getting competitive, with a new one arriving almost every month unsolicited on our feeds. At this rate we may just need an award for...Read More
Aowa and the Art of Un-Fining Dining!
Gaggan Anand has broken rules and challenged the form of Indian food. Now, he is defying the self-appointed virtuousness of “fine dining” and demolishing hypocrisies that have crept into stories...Read More
STYLISH, BUT DRESSED DOWN
Is Rohit Khattar building India’s biggest collection of casual-but-gourmet restaurants? By Anoothi Vishal The last time, I met chef Harish Rao it was at a long dinner by India’s top...Read More
For the weekend royalty
As hustle culture gives way to the rich Indian traveller seeking ultra luxury without minding the splurge, 56-bhog silver thalis, truffles on grills, and elusive eats from antiquity show up...Read More
Mountains, Memory and Miso
Japan and India’s North-East have fascinating culinary similarities. TFTA asked Tribal Gourmet founder and Masterchef NE finalist Tanisha Phanbuh to do a deep dive By Tanisha Phanbuh It all started...Read More
Nostalgia redone at Le Meridien
TFTA reccos a staycation to rediscover the charm of this Delhi icon, along with some excellent pan-Asian food and stunning Windsor views Its tall, glistening glass façade has been a...Read More
A watershed moment for elevated Indian cuisine?
There are just 170 Michelin-mentioned-and-rated Indian food restaurants globally. For one of the great cuisines of the world, the number could be a lot more. Will TresInd Studio’s 3 stars...Read More
Is Legacy luxury’s hottest (new) bite?
As consumption drives the economy, restaurants that tell stories of the past become the centre that holds. By Anoothi Vishal Tauji, as we used to call my great uncle, was...Read More
Syncretism on a leaf
Before its foreign influence, Kerala’s cuisine was largely vegetarian, centred around rice, coconut, and local veggies. Then the Arabs, the Jews, the Portuguese, the Dutch and the English added layers...Read More
Daaru as dawa – On liquor and its many uses in cinema, especially popular Hindi cinema
By Jai Arjun Singh For someone who grew up in the shrine of popular Hindi cinema in the 1980s, here is an indelible moment. Amrish Puri and Prem Chopra are...Read More
