Mealtickets

For Bake’s Sake

Baker’s Basket in association with the Redcarpet Hotel & Culinary Academy will be conducting a short term course in bakery and patisserie. Bakers from both the organisations will be involved in training the participants for the same. The course that will be held for three days a week will begin on July 2 and end on July 20 and will be held at the Culinary studio of the Redcarpet Academy. The last date for registration is June 30.

Rainy Delights

Spice Kitchen at the Pune Marriott Hotel and Convention Centre will be having a special monsoon High Tea through the month. A wide range of dishes ranging from chilli toast,assorted pakodas,toasties,puffs,calzones combined with herbal and exotic teas will be available. The event begins from July 1 and will be on till July 31 from 4 to 6 pm.

When I first came to Pune from Dehradun,it took me some time to adjust to the food here. In the beginning,everything I ate,tasted a little different. For example,even eating sambar was a strange experience for me; Sambar here tastes sweeter.

North-Indians are very particular about food and are born with a very distinguished sense of taste. While there are only a few places you can get authentic North-Indian food,I do have some favourites. My favourite food is Aloo Paratha with butter,pickle and chutney,accompanied by a glass of lassi.

The best food experience I’ve ever had was at Rajdhani Thali in Koregaon Park,where they make the paratha exactly to my native taste. I also really like the lassi they make there. I go there twice or thrice a month and though the atmosphere is always very noisy and crowded; it’s something I put up with because I like the food there so much.

There is also a tapri I pass on the roadside,near Wadia College,where I found the best puri-bhaji of my life,served hot and fresh off the stove. Even thinking about the puri-bhaji now makes my mouth water!

Madhuban is another place where I have always found nice and hot food served really fast and the restaurant itself is very clean and hygienic.

A place I frequent almost three to four times a month is Roshal Garden,in Bhosari. Whatever I’ve eaten there has always been superb so I can safely experiment and try different dishes there.

I also really enjoy the Italian food at Dario’s; sometimes I go there for a change.

As told to Elizabeth Camuti