LIMA Dubai: Where eating is a joy

For our annual office Christmas lunch, we had a choice of three very different cuisine restaurants to pick from, none of which got a majority. So, to be fair and impartial, we put… Continue reading →

CHEF TALK: FIRE IT UP! with CANDICE WALKER

Her life revolved around good growing up. Candice worked in a restaurant after school, she cooked for her family and she still found time to watch three cooking shows on TV every single… Continue reading →

3 FILS: EXPERIENCE and FOOD – PRICELESS

There are some restaurants in Dubai who gain popularity and momentum by word of mouth, considered hidden gems until the murmur becomes so loud that everyone hears about it. Well, the arrival of… Continue reading →

SODABOTTLEOPERNERWALA: KEEPING THE BAWA BHONU (Food) FLAG FLYING

For most of my life I have been identified by as a ‘bawi’ – my mother is a Parsi, and I have been told I have a few of the Parsi features (my… Continue reading →

TYPHOON SHELTER: TOOK ME BY STORM (clichéd I know.. but couldn’t help it)

I simply fell in love with the name. Typhoon Shelter. Since the name intrigued me enough – here is the back story – there is an area in Hong Kong called Causeway Bay… Continue reading →

CHEF TALK: FIRE IT UP! with LILY HOA NGUYEN

Vietnam gave me some of my most memorable holiday memories, but the one thing that always stood out was the wonderful Vietnamese people. So a self-taught Vietnamese lady chef who had as recently… Continue reading →

212 All Good: Perfectly Good and Healthy

A friend in Bombay always seems to suggest restaurants whose food I pretty much enjoy – she of course has done a recce of the place and only if it passes her standards… Continue reading →

CHEF TALK: FIRE IT UP! with ALPER UZUNDURUKAN

Chef Alper Uzundurukan’s journey into the food world was one of fate and he had never looked back. He started in a small Italian café in Turkey and worked his way into the… Continue reading →

FOOD TRAVELS: JAIPUR WALKING FOOD TOUR

When you think of Rajasthan, besides the palaces and desert – the one thing that has always come to mind is the food. I have written about the food I had in Jodhpur… Continue reading →

CHEF TALK: FIRE IT UP! with CHEF JITIN JOSHI

This blog has to start with both a confession and an apology. Confession: I interviewed Chef Jitin a year ago (Yikes!) and as much as I loved him and what he shared, I… Continue reading →