Restaurant Review: Ristorante Prego
When you open a restaurant in the same mall that has an outlet of the wildly popular local chain Spaghetti Kitchen, that too one from Delhi, comparisons are all but inevitable. Ristorante Prego,...
View ArticleTV Review: Trinny & Susannah’s Makeover Mission India
Half way through watching the first episode of Trinny & Susannah’s Makeover Mission India, my eye began straying towards my laptop. On the computer were episodes of Orange Is The New Black, a new...
View ArticleFood Review: Pastaa Bastta
This venue has shuttered. ‘Basta’ means ‘enough’ in Italian. Bastta, we’re guessing, is the numerological perversion of the same word, and one that’s as annoyingly spelt as the word pasta in the name...
View ArticleRestaurant Review: Maritime By San Lorenzo
San Lorenzo is the latest in a line of exports from London that have opened branches in Mumbai over the last couple of years – it follows Hakkasan, Yauatcha, Pizza Metro Pizza, Pizza Express and most...
View ArticleRestaurant Review: Nico Bombay
Is there something in the water that pumps through Kala Ghoda? If yes, budding entrepreneurs might want to bring a bucket and stock up because somehow the neighbourhood manages to produce some of the...
View ArticleRestaurant Review: Le Cirque Signature
Is there room in Mumbai for a restaurant where the linen napkins are starched and the waiters more formally dressed than most of the diners? The Leela hotel in Andheri evidently seems to think so, as...
View ArticleSomeone Please Tie My Sari
Master draper Kalpana Shah demonstrates how to tie a sari. The first time I wore a sari, with no help, it began unravelling just as I took a few steps into the reception venue where my newly married...
View ArticleBestselling Beauty Elixir Bio-Oil Is Now Available Here – But Is It Worth The...
I am a cynical user of beauty products that make lofty claims – takes 20 years off your face? Pfft, that’s only gonna happen with surgery not serums. Erases under-eye circles? Only if the cream comes...
View ArticleBar Review: Asilo
If you’re over 30 and find yourself at Asilo on a Friday or Saturday night, you will feel old. How old you ask? Put it this way: if Hugh Hefner came to India, this is where he’d likely go. Groups of...
View ArticleMove Over Sonam, There’s A New Fashionista In Town
From left, Kangana in REDValentino, Gucci, Burberry and Dior. Photos: Viral Bhayani. If dressing for the Bollywood red carpet were an Olympic event, here’s how it would play out: Sonam Kapoor would...
View ArticleFood Review: Mexiloko
Chalk it down to one of those strange Mumbai mysteries, along with how the BMC functions and the ubiquity of the baked dish. Mexican food, despite a few attempts every now and then, has never really...
View ArticleRestaurant Review: Tiffinbox Etc.
If you want to open a fail-proof restaurant in our notoriously difficult city, this is probably how to do it – create a cheap and cheerful menu of home favourites from several regional Indian...
View ArticleSidin Vadukut On Debunking India Myths, The Haters And Having His Mind Blown
The zero may not be our invention alone. Of all the “I am proud to be Indian” facts frequently bandied about, the one about us inventing the zero seems to be a particular favourite. It has become so...
View ArticleHow ‘MasterChef Australia’ Won Me Over
During the last four seasons of MasterChef Australia (they never showed the first season here), I found its popularity inexplicable. From my seat on the couch, it was just a whole lotta hokey people...
View ArticleA Case For Closing Down Byculla Zoo
This week I broke a seven-year promise to never step into a zoo anywhere in the world by visiting the Veermata Jijabai Bhosale Udyan and Zoo otherwise known as the Byculla Zoo. The 53-acre botanical...
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