Eating Out in Delhi » South Delhi

Sancho’s

Hemanshu Kumar — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:10:29 +0000

There seems to be a terrible paucity of good Mexican food joints in Delhi.

One of the options that has been around for a while is Rodeo’s. Frankly, I haven’t even tried their stuff yet, but that’s only because I keep hearing very mixed reviews about the place.

A week ago, I was in the [...]

Afghan Food at Lajpat Nagar

Hemanshu Kumar — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:52:51 +0000

I heart EOiD.

It was just a few weeks ago, on December 21 to be precise, while making a plan for Kabuli food in Ballimaran, that it suddenly struck me — surely there were other Afghan restaurants in Delhi? A little googling indicated the existence of such a place in Lajpat Nagar, but there was no [...]

Nagpal Amar Rahe!

Hemanshu Kumar — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:36:23 +0000

There are few things more difficult than getting yourself to start going for morning walks in Delhi’s pitiful excuse of a monsoon season. I had been trying to get going for several weeks, on occasion even succeeding in rousing myself in the wee hours of the morning. But I would lose heart when just a [...]

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 [...]

M. I. Meat Suppliers

Hemanshu Kumar — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 07:48:30 +0000

For reasons I myself cannot comprehend, I recently decided to take the University Grants Commission’s (UGC) NET exam, a cockeyed morally offensive mind-numbing scandal of a paper that deserves to be thrown out.

But on the plus side, it gave me the occasion to revise some of the basic concepts in economics that had been [...]

INA Meena Dikha!

Hemanshu Kumar — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 23:12:41 +0000

(or, Fishing for Mallu Food at I. N. A. Market)

Vinayan and I have come a long way. About a decade ago, when our department acquired its first few computers and pretended to call the room they were dumped in a “lab”, I was an eager little graduate student there. I would go to him [...]

Momo’s affair

Shashank Kumar — Fri, 25 May 2007 01:26:24 +0000

Zero is not India’s greatest contribution to mankind, it’s the Manchurian. What, with all the jeera, dhaniya, and even garam masala it seems right from the heart of the Guangdong province, doesn’t it?

The Nepali kancha cooking chowmein in that pseudo-wok (essentially a kadhai) isn’t all that bad, I’ve realized. I’ve had the ‘real’ Chinese [...]

Paka, and spaceba for all the Tilapia!

Hemanshu Kumar — Fri, 04 May 2007 08:23:37 +0000

The Russians are a darling lot. They are apt to be disarmingly rude yet bashfully imperial, to drink like pigs, dance like oafs, have fond memories of their mothers humming to Raj Kapoor tunes, and love cooking just the way their grandmothers did.

Or so has been my experience from staying with a Russian roommate [...]

Tamura Onegaishimas …

Arnab Mukherji — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 03:18:27 +0000

Japanese food in “saadi dilli” is a bit of a rarity. In a largely vegetarian world, the demand for such food is low to begin with. Add to that the “eek” factor associated with raw fish, and then being affordable largely by the urban bourbon-drinking page 3 hip and plastic crowd, and you have a [...]

Mughal Darbar

Hemanshu Kumar — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:13:00 +0000

If the name conjures visions of sheesh mahals, viziers, courtesans, and exotic aromas, you’ve come to the right place.

Mughal Darbar, close to Tapti hostel in the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus is the Indian communist’s homage to Persian indulgence. As you pass myriad expressions of youth culture (that are best left unelaborated), you spot [...]