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Sitaram Diwan Chand: Masterclass & Recipes

Pamela Timms — Tue, 26 May 2009 03:17:10 +0000

When conniving Mughal upstart Aurangzeb imprisoned his father, Emperor Shah Jehan, in Agra Fort in 1657, he told him he could choose just one thing to eat every day for the rest of his life. The old man chose chick peas because the prison cook told him he would be able to make something different [...]

Sitaram Dewan Chand

Hemanshu Kumar — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:09:34 +0000

It’s true. We men don’t ask for directions.

A couple months back, having heard one too many recommendations for Sitaram Dewan Chand’s Chhole Bhature, I googled their address, found the rough location on an online map, and went down to Paharganj. I reached the street I was looking for, but despite driving as slowly as [...]

La Crème de Sadar

Hemanshu Kumar — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:48:28 +0000

Every once in a while, someone comes up to me and conspiratorially recommends what must by now be the worst-kept secret in South Delhi’s “offbeat” food scene — Khan Chacha’s kabab corner in Khan Market. Frankly, I find said place more than a tad over-rated — the kabab rolls tend to be all shmushed up [...]

The Metropolis

Hemanshu Kumar — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:58:19 +0000

I first read about The Metropolis in a rather eye-catchingly titled Rahul Verma article last year: “Manali in Paharganj”. And when the man himself recommended it as one of the best places for continental food, we wasted no time in organizing an EOiD community expedition to Paharganj.

I have taken several friends to [...]

Ashoks the Great

Hemanshu Kumar — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 08:51:09 +0000

Once upon a time there ruled over twentieth-century Indraprastha, not one but two Ashoks, whose empire stretched as far as the eye could see, and their fame even beyond.

Okay, granted that the eye couldn’t see very far at all in twentieth-century Indraprastha, but you get the gist.

Every day when the sun would set [...]

Roshan di Kulfi

Hemanshu Kumar — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:33:51 +0000

Writing about Roshan di Kulfi on a blog which claims to be devoted to offbeat eating places feels a little odd. To the denizens of Karol Bagh, Roshan di Kulfi is probably as offbeat as Baskin Robbins is to a New Yorker. But not all of us have the luck of living in these parts, [...]

Ten out of Ten!

Hemanshu Kumar — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 08:45:00 +0000

[update: Ten has been closed since September 2007. This article may now be considered an epitaph.]

I used to think I knew every little nook and corner of central Delhi better than the back of my hand. So you can imagine how piqued my curiosity was, when Harneet first told me that right under my [...]

Momos at Majnu ka Tila

Hemanshu Kumar — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 07:12:12 +0000

… and at Defence Colony

Having been stymied in our quest for Haji Noora’s Nihari, Abhik and I were racing past ISBT en route to Chawri Bazaar, when it struck him that we should stop at the Tibetan colony at Majnu ka Tila. Abhik was in quest of Sukuti, or strips of dried [...]