One of Mumbai’s best-known and best-loved restaurants is Indigo. I’ve been to Mumbai only a couple of times, but on my last visit to the city, two friends took me out to dinner to Indigo. The food was fabulous, and … Continue reading
There is no paucity of restaurants that serve South Indian food in Delhi, ranging from top-end (and often expensive) restaurants like Dakshin, which offers probably some of the most authentic cuisines from the Deccan; to the numerous Udupi restaurants which … Continue reading
By some odd coincidence, this is the third consecutive week that I’ve had a weekend lunch at a restaurant that had first started off in Hauz Khas Village. Yeti proved that a change in location could actually work for the … Continue reading
Like Yeti, Elma’s was a place I was first introduced to in Hauz Khas Village. The Elma’s in Hauz Khas was (I haven’t been there for nearly a year—possibly more) a good tea place: a nice selection of teas, lovely … Continue reading
A friend had introduced us to Yeti a couple of years back. Yeti, then, was a small, somewhat cramped little restaurant in Hauz Khas. We went there for lunch with our friend, liked what we ate, told ourselves we’d be back—but never actually got around to returning, just because the logistics were all stacked against another trip. Hauz Khas has become notoriously crowded over the past few years; parking is a pain; and it is, anyway, not all that close to where we stay.
It was therefore with great joy that we greeted the news that Yeti had now opened in Greater Kailash too—less than half an hour from our home, and with ample parking space. Come Sunday, we decided we had to go check it out to see if it was as good as the Hauz Khas one.
Inside Yeti.
I’ve been on countless heritage walks around Delhi, and some of them have ended with going off to a Chaina Ram or a Karim’s or a shop in Parathewali Gali to fortify oneself before heading back home. But I’ve never … Continue reading
Seven years back, on a trip to London, we decided we had to eat at a Michelin star restaurant. The choice, after much juggling between budget and location and cuisines we like, ended up being Yauatcha, in Soho. We loved … Continue reading
When a restaurant’s cuisines are listed as ‘North Indian, Chinese, Thai, Asian, Continental’, I tend to raise my eyebrows and wonder which—if any—they are really able to do well. In my experience, multi-cuisine restaurants are invariably flops. Town Hall, newly … Continue reading
Basant Lok Market was, till the 90s, one of South Delhi’s most popular places to hang out—and then stand-alone cinemas gave way to multiplexes. Priya Cinema, the main attraction in the market, suddenly found itself (despite a plush new look) … Continue reading
About two decades back, Thai restaurants were all the rage in Delhi. There was (or so it seemed) one in almost every major market, and a chain—Bangkok Degree 1, 2 and 3—had also set up shop. It looked as if Thai food, with its curry-like flavours, its spice and freshness and obvious points of appeal to Indian palates, was here to stay.
Then there was an odd shift. Every other Oriental restaurant (even those which proclaimed themselves as Chinese) began serving Thai curries and rice. That may have been the only Thai dish on their menus, but it was there, often in a not-at-all-authentic form. And the primarily Thai restaurants retreated into the background, either shutting down or just going downhill.
We have always been very fond of Thai food, so this, of course, was a bit of a blow for us. And there was much excitement when we discovered (on a Facebook foodies group) that a Thai restaurant had opened in Greater Kailash’s N Block Market. Someone who’d eaten there had praised the authenticity of the food, so we were especially keen to check it out. Within hours of hearing about Dao, we’d booked a table for Sunday lunch here with my sister and brother-in-law.
At Dao.
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