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Double treat
The Taj Blue Diamond is hosting two enticing food festivals back to back. While one of them is true blue Punjabi in nature,the other celebrates the Chinese New Year through authentic dishes of our northern neighbour.
Delhi da Dhaba,a Dhaba Food Festival will be on from Jan 23 to Feb 01,7 pm onwards. In an ambience inspired by authentic roadside dhabas,the Garden Court at the Taj will be set up with charpoys,lanterns,live cooking stations and trucks! While enjoying the ambience,you can savour Punjabi cuisine in its purest form with the myriad tastes of Tandoori Lobster,Meat Saagwala,Dhaba Paneer and Pindi Chole. We are still thinking up a better way than this of celebrating good times,by indulging in robust cuisine with a touch of passion. There’s also much to look forward to for those who relish Chinese cuisine,as the Whispering Bamboos at the Taj will usher in the Chinese New Year through a delectable spread of Chinese cuisine prepared by Chef Wong Wen. The Chinese food festival will be on between 12.30 and 3 pm during the daytime and between 7 and 11.30 pm in the evening.

Curry capers
For those who love to indulge in south Indian cuisine,Soul Curry,the south Indian speciality restaurant is serving up mouthwatering rare recipes from the royal kitchens of Chettinad,Nanjilnadu and Coimbatore. Nestled in a coconut grove,the restaurant offers scrumptious thalis and an elaborate a la carte menu,while naadswaram music plays in the background and aromas of south Indian cuisine waft in through the kitchen. Open all seven days from 11am to 11pm and on weekends from 7am to 11pm,Soul Curry has a different thali menu everyday. Both vegetarians and non-vegetarians can enjoy their meals on separate veg and non-veg floors with separate kitchens and avail of the facility of cozy nursing rooms and five star rest rooms.

South side story
For seafood lovers,here’s some welcome news. Southern Spice on Dhole Patil Road has spruced up its menu and included a range of dishes from the verdant coast of the Malabar. From standalone dishes to the thali menu,everything here is now tinged with the aromas and flavours of the Malabar. “We’ve recently added a lot of Malabari dishes and preparations to the menu at Southen Spice. Apart from Fish Malabari,Mutton Malabari and Crab Malabari,there’s also non-veg and veg thali which have an all-new menu,” says Varghese Manaadan,proprietor of the restaurant. The thali menu comprises of crab thali,fish thali,chicken thali and mutton thali,apart from the evergreen veg thali. If you thought thali could only be an assortment of dishes,the spread here will change that perception.