food experiences

An Onasadya everywhere you look, seafood buckets upended on tables, and scoops of cheesecake round off a stacked month

Inside Middle Room, an intimate listening bar where records lead and everything else follows

Cafés are hosting art exhibitions, art galleries are throwing retro-themed community dinners, and design stores are shapeshifting into venues for theatre performances to cater to Gen Z’s demand for hybrid experiences

In this Indian-Mexican restaurant by chefs Megha Kohli and Noah Louis Barnes, the push and pull between the two cultures comes via a 12-course menu where mezcal is paired with kokum and guacamole scooped up by bhakri

For 30 years, the F&B veteran has introduced Mumbai to a tally of restaurants and bars, each defining a specific era in its dining and drinking scene. With Miss Margot, he predicts the city’s return to slower, quieter night-outs

A women-led eatery in Arunachal Pradesh wants to change this with heirloom dishes rooted in foraged ingredients and locally grown crops

With ceviche, the Peruvian-Japanese cuisine has been on menus of Asian restaurants for a while now. Now restaurants in India are putting their own spin on it

Designed for audiophiles and inspired by Japan’s jazz kissa, bars and restaurants across India are opting for intimate listening experiences over conversation-killing decibels

Vanilla-flavoured tapioca pearls? Coconut mousse on lavash? Hardly a sidekick, the cocktail garnish is becoming a delicious co-star blurring the gap between bar and kitchen

And there was certainly a lot to chew on

Timeleft, a new networking app, is built around inviting strangers to supper in hopes of fostering new friendships in the real world

Across the country, some of the best meals are being served at avant-garde micro restaurants. And as the queues attest, diners can’t get enough