Comments for Eating Out in Delhi

Comment on La Crème de Sadar by suhail

suhail — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:20:32 +0000

mulla jee discount diya karo apne regular customers ko,otherwise we are not going to visit your restro again.khuda hafiz

Comment on Tamura Onegaishimas … by Pablo

Pablo — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:41:44 +0000

And thsi is the main reason I love eoid.org. Shocking posts.

Comment on Faqiri Muamalaat by Subhashish

Subhashish — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:03:11 +0000

Hi All,

amazing stories & great comments. can anybody tell me about the best place to have Nalli Gosht in Delhi. Had it once at Hyatt Regency….but i am looking for this at an authentic restaurant or dhaba…

Comment on Karim’s by narendra aggarwal

narendra aggarwal — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:12:34 +0000

Sohail Hashmi,

I loved what you wrote.

Comment on Afghan Food at Lajpat Nagar by sumit

sumit — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:28:14 +0000

There are another 2 Afghan food joints which have opened up in Lajpat Nagar. Right next to the Woodland showroom in the lane where there is an outlet for Frontier biscuits, there are 2 new resteraunts which serve Afghani food. One of them is a fine dine Afghani resteraunt and the second one seems to be serving normal fare.
Haven;t tried the food yet, but if someone has eaten there then kindly share your experience.

Comment on A Hog Walk by kabeer khan

kabeer khan — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 23:07:04 +0000

well my name is kabeer khan i m leave is choori walan delhi .6. And i love my old delhi bcoz pure india main old delhi jasi koi plase nahi haan i love jama masjid also..well guys plz come to old delhi And enjoy the foods bye tack care

Comment on The Original Moti Mahal by Foodie

Foodie — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 05:19:11 +0000

Hello,
I once visited Delhi when i was a child. I wish I knew where MM was. Lately, I have been following a show called Gordon’s great escape & he has abt 22 restaurants all over the world and is well renounced here in US & UK visited this place and had only good things to talk about. I will definitely plan out a trip to Delhi specially to eat there & i am sure it will be worth it!!

Comment on Kallu Nihari by Amit Lohani

Amit Lohani — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:22:50 +0000

People who go to Shabrati ki Nihari should definately try his Butter Bheja.He take half a packet of butter ,heats it up in a pan and then put one bheja which in next to his Nihari Degh.He cracks open that shell and puts the bheja in the pan.The combination of Bheja & Butter is do dye for.Guys who har food freaks would fall in love with it.

Comment on Karim’s by Ajesh Balachandran

Ajesh Balachandran — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:44:32 +0000

Hi Himanshu.. thanks a planet for enlightening/ highlighting such great places to sample splendid food! for me it started with your interview in Express Newsline (IE daily suppl.) and you recommending Bade Mian Kheer Waale..whoever i’ve taken there to have labelled it as the best kheer they’ve ever had, and i still religiously take back half a kilo for my family whenever i am there (though being a mallu, i still relish like a kid the rice payasam we get in mallu langars ). and daulat ki chaat, which was marvelous (i just love the milky burp i get afterwards, sorry ).
Have you tried Abdul Malik Tikke Waala’s kali mirch ke tikke?? (he sits diagonally opposite and to the right of – if you are facing Bazaar Matia Mahal lane – Gate No.1, Jama Masjid. he sits everyday after 7.30 pm onwards till, as per him, 2-4 in the morning). it was again recommended in Expressline as the last few places where they serve such a tikka well. For veggies in our group, having a matar samosa or kachori at shyam sweets (his shop is at the chowk where Nai Sarak meets Chawari bazaar) is a delicious must!
oh by the way, i get stymied everytime i end up at Afghan restaurant in lajpat nagar, that they dont open on sunday, that they are open only in the evening, lack of veg dish for the eklauta veggie in my group, and one time they were closed for no reason! the contact person you had mentioned (was it the same IE article ??) got pissed off with me saying, with a strong Pashto accent, this no. doesnt belong to Afghan restaurant.
but thanks a ton again! will keep on adding new tidbits here as a token of appreciation. hope you like it.

Comment on Karim’s by Sohail Hashmi

Sohail Hashmi — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:05:39 +0000

Years ago, while in Luckhnow i met a friend and a very well respected food writer, considered an authority on affairs gastronomic, both were busy making a series on Indian food for a west European TV channel. They invited me to a 5 star hotel where the episode on the Awadhi Cuisine was being shot. I was introduced to the chef as a dilliwallah who loves to cook, the chef, though not very keen to entertain the uncouth dilliwallah, had to be civil since the people featuring his hotel were showing me some respect.
His civility did not however prevent me from trashing the food they were serving. Not because i have something against the city or its cuisine, far from it, i have eaten phenomenal food in the city of Wajid Ali, my wife is a half Luckhnawi and i know what i am talking about. But what they were serving was fit only for those who have grown up eating boiled stuff, that is covered with powdered herbs before being wolfed down with the help of wine. Unfortunately it is these blokes who constitute the bulk of the clients of 5 star hotels and 5 star hotels all over the world cook for them.
When I was through being as obnoxious to the chef as i possibly could i praised the Rabri that he served, and i praised it lavishly and also told him that it must have come from Ramasrey, because he is the best and their hotel, going by what they had been dishing out, could not have prepared anything so sublime.
I was right and the chef had to eat humble pie, it was at this point that the very well known food writer asked me, “Mister Hashmi we are also making an episode on Delhi what would you suggest should we feature Karim for Mughlai food. Despite my great respect for the man, i had to correct him twice, first i told him that it is Mughalia and second that Karim is not the place for Mughalia food. In order to drive the point home I asked him “does the fellow who stitches your Kurta Pyjama also tailor your suits” he said off course not, but what does it have to do with karim. iIt was then that i had to patiently explain to him that Kababis, Khansamas, Nihari Makers, Naanbais, Halwais are different species of the same animal and yet they are as different as Chalk is from Cheese.
Karim operates out of Gali Kababiyan, these fellows used to make kababs and if their ancestors had anything ever to do with the Mughal court than I am a direct desecdent of Shahjehan!
Remember dear reader, the tradition of eating out, was looked down upon by the middle classes till as recently as fifty years ago in India. The reputation of Karim has been built unfortunately by First generation meat eaters who descended on this fair city in the late forties and early fifties. Please go out into the city and explore, there is a specialist for everything, you cannot find everything at one place.