mumbai lows : 15 Recipes
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"Thank God Its Over" ... TGIF, Palladium Mall Mumbai
What do you say about a meal which includes pork, prawns and chicken, and where the most memorable part was the Ice Tea. 'So long Erich Segal' ? We stepped into TGIF for lunch on Friday (!) at Palladium. This is the new upmarket mall at Phoenix[...] |
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Food sins are Deadly ... Asia 7, Palladium Mall, Mumbai
This is a difficult post to write. Where being an impartial blogger clashes with basic social courtesy. Let me explain the problem. What would you do if a friend comes all the way to meet you, goes to a place of your choice for lunch, snatches the[...] |
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Paradise Lost or Where not to eat Bengali food in Mumbai... Howrah
I never thought that I would miss Bengali food till I moved in to Mumbai more than a decade back. Oh Calcutta or Only Fish as it was called then was too expensive for a trainee's wallet. Which is when I discovered Hotel New Bengal. The iconic[...] |
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That sinking feeling... Gajalee, Phoenix Mills
I am not a good lunch mate. I tend to bully and get my way and make people go to a restaurant of my choice. K would tell you this. Most of our daily dinners while we were dating would be at Chinese places thanks to me. The tradition continues till[...] |
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Sinned ... Cinnabon, Bandra
I remember Cinnabon from a crazy, surreal night at Dubai. A night scripted by Woody Allen. We were ravaged with hunger in the middle of a plush 'un'- mall, called Souk. Somewhere through the madness came the heavenly aroma of Manna wafting[...] |
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Hell's Kitchen .... Soul Fry Casa
A Goan restaurant where the best dish is an okra one is to be avoided at all costs in my books. A couple of colleagues and I had finished a meeting near the Bombay Stock Exchange. We were three hungry men on the prowl. We disdainfully walked[...] |
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Lake Placid. Just Kerala, Andheri East
I thought Kerala was a part of India till I read this sign In case you feel that I over reacted about my move to Andheri East from Fort then this post will change your mind. Remember Deluxe , Rahmaniya[...] |
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Nightmare on Pali Naka ... Pali Village Cafe
It's not that I have not had bad restaurant experiences before. I normally don't make a scene. I just come home and Finely Chop them. But there is always a first time. Unfortunately tonight was not a good night. We have grown up reading about[...] |
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Still Lost ... Spaghetti Kitchen, Phoenix Mills
Spaghetti Kitchen (S K) at Phoenix Mill, Mumbai, will always have a special place in the world of Finely Chopped. Finely Chopped owes its existence to places like this. I had begun my blog initially as a crib blog. Spaghetti Kitchen was the[...] |
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Brownies and banana peels ... Theobroma, Bandra
I realised that I hadn't done a Mumbai restaurant post in a while. Pity that it turned out like this when I finally did one again. The story of a breakfast which spoilt our day. What's the point of knowledge if you don't use it? I read[...] |