Mad Tea Party @ Five Mad Men, Salt Lake – Sec V 🙂

Date: 7 Feb 2021 Venue: Five Mad Men (5MM), Salt Lake – Sec V Throughout my growing up years, I understood tea as a hot beverage made with branded dried tea leaves, milk, water, sugar and one or more of taste enhancers like – cardamom, ginger, clove and even an occasional pinch of saffron. The…

9 Course Chef’s Table With Molecular Gastronomy By Culinary Wizard Chef Chanchal Datta @ Refinery 091, Globsyn Crystals, Salt Lake – Sec V 🙂

Date: 30 Dec 2020, 2:00 pm onwards Though 2020 was a year of trials and turbulences for all, thankfully it ended for some members of West Bengal Hotels & Restaurants Council of WICCI on an ecstatic note, thanks to the wonderful spread out of Chef’s Table enriched with elements of molecular gastronomy and intricate plating…

Pure Gastronomic Indulgence & Delight @ Aura – The Sonnet, Kolkata 🙂

A couple of years back I was invited for an exclusive food tasting & review session at Aura, the marquee multicuisine all-day-dining restaurant at The Sonnet, Kolkata. The tasting menu read “We welcome you to the AURA for a musical gastronomic sojourn with us.” Indeed the food session was ‘Symphony in Harmony’ which is also…

Annakut Bhog – The Prasad Of 56 Food Items 🙂

The festival of Annakut (meaning a heap of grain) Puja, popularly known as Govardhan Puja, is celebrated on the 4th day of Deepawli, the 5 day Hindu festival of lights. For the Annakut festival, a meal using 56 different kinds of grains and vegetables are used to prepare the prasad known as Chappan Bhog. In…

Fabulous Immunity Boosting + Ayurvedic Food Buffet @ The Lalit Great Eastern Kolkata 🙂

Event: Cake Mixing CeremonyDate: 16 Nov 2020, 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm This year The Lalit Great Eastern’s cake mixing ceremony clashed with Bhai Dooj festival, the last day of our 5 days of Diwali festivities. After wrapping up the festival at home, even while I was leaving for the hotel during the late evening…

Meal Fit For The Kings @ Indie Yum by Ambuja Neotia, Kolkata 🙂

Joining the trend of cloud kitchens and home delivery services, Ambuja Neotia – the pioneer in hospitality services in Kolkata has introduced Indie Yum, the 100% vegetarian cloud kitchen with an extensive menu encompassing most of the popular Indian regional dishes and Continental (primarily Italian) dishes. No wonder the food platter that they sent me…

When I went for a 5 Star Dinner Buffet and got hooked to it’s Salad Section! 🙂

I was required to meet a group of visiting friends for late night dinner and we opted to go for dinner buffet at Waterside Cafe at Hyatt Regency (Kolkata), as we like to frequent that place ever since it’s inception, for it’s relaxed good vibes and hospitality. Luckily the then vegetarian serving of soup was…

We Broke The Lockdown Spell @ Motor Works & Brewing Company, Sec V – Salt Lake 🙂

Around a fortnight back, we broke the lockdown spell of home confinement, by wining & dining with family at Motor Works & Brewing Company, the upbeat and spacious diner with full fledged bar and hookah service. To maintain the social distancing with other hookah consumers, we chose to be seated on the empty mezzanine floor…

Floating Flea Market @ The Earthy Saga 2.0 🙂

Every year, the advent of winter brings in a plethora of exhibits and cultural dos in the ‘City of Joy‘, each one trying to better itself than the preceding year and a selected few trying to stand out by introducing innovative concepts. But this year, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, all the concerned exhibition…

When We Meet For Work And Not For Dining And Still End Up Purchasing Enough Food 🙂

At times it’s not really about food, but about a well lit, hygienic and quality service place where you can sit with ease and discuss work with your associates over a good cup of coffee. Of course, as per the length of your conversation, you need to keep the tab running. We always do. Our…