Last week we were booked to go to Bangkok to attend the World Gourmet Festival, an annual event organised by the Anantara ...

I don’t really agree with Michelin’s hotel keys for India. The idea is to replicate the famous star system used for rating restaurants to judge hotels. Only, instead of stars the ratings are called ...

I want to discuss the international furore caused by the demand made by the largely Gujarati Swaminarayan sect to evict all women from the Eiffel Tower. But first, we need to talk about today’s ...

So here’s the situation. It is 2006. You have guests from abroad. (Perhaps they are business contacts.) You need to take them out for dinner. They say they would prefer Indian food because they are in ...

What is the most consumed meat in India? If you answered mutton you would be wrong. More ‘buffalo meat’ is produced in India than mutton. (‘Buffalo meat’ is at 1.2 million tonnes while mutton is at ...

Not most industrial Indian ice cream perhaps but rich, creamy ice cream with a nice fattiness to coat the tongue and a distinct flavour that hits the palate. The basic problem with mass produced ice ...

How long would you queue up at a restaurant for? Would you stand outside the door for 45 minutes till they let you in? A whole hour? I guess it depends on how much you care. I don’t queue up at ...

The Michelin guide is considered the ultimate arbiter of taste. Chefs long to win a Michelin star but the phrase ‘Michelin starred’ has been so abused that most people are confused about what it means ...

It’s a term that became popular in the early years of this century to categorise hotel chains from East Asia that were opening properties in the West and bringing higher and more gracious levels of ...

Did the gatekeepers at the AI Summit decide that they needed to be Gatekeepers? Was Bill Gates told that he would not be welcome at a Summit that is already reeling from controversy after controversy?

Let’s start with a little imagining. A Bangladeshi enters India illegally. He ends up in Delhi and though he speaks very little Hindi and does not know how to interpret road signs, finds a job as a ...

What do you think of the Indian pasta tradition? If your response is one of bewilderment then join the club. That’s what I would have said too — at least until a week ago. “What rubbish! There is no ...