It is a truism to say that the pandemic has had devastating consequences for the restaurant industry all over the world. At the end of India’s first wave, I wrote about three brilliant chef ...

So, as you can see, it’s a long way away from the Burj Al Arab. Morocco is an entirely different world from the Dubai-centric Middle East that most Indians are familiar with. In a sense, this makes it ...

Bangalore’s chefs and restaurateurs are much more imaginative than their counterparts in Delhi. But sadly, while the stand-alone sector thrives, the food at hotels has collapsed. The single worst meal ...

We are less concerned with authenticity or tradition in India. We just take things for granted and imagine that dishes have always been around. Let’s take the most famous examples. Tandoori chicken ...

It sounds funny to say this now, but when I was at school in Ajmer most Indians did not think of Rajasthan as a tourist destination. In those days, Indians went to hill-stations on vacation (and very ...

Actually, said Jean-Claude, he wasn’t particularly fascinated by the smell of tea. He liked the taste, of course, and so he bought teas from all over the world at Mariage Freres, the Parisian ...

More unusually, he concedes that the government failed to act decisively to stop fraud in many cases. In 2011, he writes, his colleagues brought to his attention that private investors in ...

If you’ve been reading the papers then you will probably know what the world’s best hotel is. It is Vanyavilas, a small luxury resort run by the Oberoi group near Ranthambhore in Rajasthan. Vanyavilas ...

He would not join a club, he stated, because any club that was willing to admit people like him was clearly not worth joining. That remark became the centerpiece of Woody Allen’s Annie Hall and it ...

It isn’t just the great French chefs (Joël Robuchon, Alain Ducasse, etc) but it is also the TV chefs (Gordon Ramsay, Marco Pierre White, Bobby Flay, etc) and the ones who have broken with tradition ...

Vir Sanghvi is the best-known Indian journalist of his generation. His career straddles print, television, books and now, new media. Vir Sanghvi was born in London in 1956 and educated at Mayo College ...

There is a whole new generation that does not remember Krishna Menon which, I guess, is fair enough. Menon was forced out of Jawaharlal Nehru’s cabinet in 1962 and died in 1974. His glory years were ...