A bowl of piping hot chicken stew served with lacy appams or steamed slices of bread is the stuff of nostalgia for the Malayali, that subtle flavour of the light, spice-tinged gravy carries many memories. The coconut milk-based gravy with pieces of chicken and cubed potatoes, carrots, and onions, the mild aroma of cinnamon, cardamom, […]

Food safety inspections conducted by the Telangana Food Safety Department at Urban Monk Fine Dine and Baking in LB Nagar and Meld Haus brewery in Nagole on Wednesday, May 20 uncovered serious hygiene and food safety violations | Photo Credit: @cfs_telangana on X Food safety inspections conducted by the Telangana Food Safety department at a […]

Calling MMore Than A Nut, near Rajagiri Hospital, Aluva, Kerala, a coffee shop reduces what founder Ubais Ali envisions for the brand. For context, everything in the coffee shop is made of coconut or from the product of a coconut tree — the tables and benches, tableware, lampshades and the walls, and even the dust […]

The table is set at Kesar Bagh | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Some dishes require reverence. And that is what the Kakori kebab and sheermal get at Kesar Bagh. As I cut pieces of the delicate lamb kebab and pop them into my mouth, time stands still, the music fades and all I feel is […]

VMRDA Commissioner N. Tej Bharath visits the handcrafted ceramic stall by Arra Pottery at the Women Entrepreneurs Expo in Visakhapatnam on Tuesday | Photo Credit: K.R. DEEPAK Women entrepreneurs showcased their products, shared their business journeys and deliberated on market access, finance and digital opportunities at a conference held in Visakhapatnam on Tuesday. The event, […]

The first thing one notices about whisky is that it asks for patience. Not while drinking it, but long before that. Patience while the barley grows or while the spirit sleeps in oak. Patience while the years pass unseen inside dark warehouses in the Scottish Highlands, where rain taps against stone walls and winters surrender […]

Dishes presented at the ongoing Kashmiri food festival at Novotel Varun Beach in Visakhapatnam. | Photo Credit: KR DEEPAK Kashmiri cuisine is often described as aromatic rather than fiery, and that philosophy comes through at Dawat-E-Wazwan, the ongoing food festival at Zaffran restaurant at Novotel Visakhapatnam Varun Beach. Curated by chefs Rehman and Abdul, the […]

The growing Tamil appetite for biryani has kept cash registers jingling across the State, with a fourfold increase in the number of restaurants serving the rice and meat (or vegetables) favourite. According to analysts who track the industry, the organised biryani business in the State is pegged at ₹1,500 crore per year while the unorganised […]

What does a bar look like when it behaves less like a bar and more like a piece of speculative fiction? At Delhi’s, Vasant Vihar’s AABBCC, recently named among Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2026, guests climb three floors that function like chapters in a story. A laboratory where ingredients are deconstructed, a ocktail bar where […]

Just moments before I formally started writing this story, news came out revealing that two agricultural products, namely Unjha cumin and fennel, from Gujarat have received GI tags. Today, India has GI tagged products abounding but before 2004, there wasn’t even a single one. “Geographical Indication” is what the tag is, a certification given to […]