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Healthy bite
If you are health conscious and still like to relish pizzas and pastas, here8217;s your chance as Ccasanova, has announced the Whole Wheat Pizzas and Pastas for fitness freaks people.
Ccasanova level one, at Kalyani Nagar, is offering the Weekday Wheat Fest from 12 to 3.30 pm. There is a choice between vegetarian and non vegetarian and you can choose between soup or salad and pizza or pasta along with Gelato sugar free. The veg course has a choice including Minestrone soup, Spaghetti Arugula pizza and Gelato sugar free vanilla or chocolate. While the non veg course contains Insalata Di Pollo pan fried chicken salad, Fettucine Con Pollo whole wheat fettucine pasta with chicken, Gelato and many more varieties. All this at Rs 250 per head.

Mama mia
Le Meridien brings the taste of Italy to Pune in its inimitable style, till November 23. With the nine-day-long festival serving thematic cuisine, the food will be Italicious for sure! The buffet dinner comprises a choice of two soups, eight vegetarian and four non-vegetarian salads and 12 desserts. There are two live stations of pasta and pizza, where the pasta counter has ten varieties, while the pizza counter is offering 50 special toppings. One can check out the Minestra di verdure soup to start off the meal. Chef Matthew particularly recommends Polenta Toscana and Eggplant and Zucchini Lasagna as the vegetarian main course, while Pollo Alla Cacciatora chicken with mushrooms, olives and tomatoes and Agnello Alla Abruzzese lamb with white wine and herbs are the non-vegetarian favorites. Another suggestion is the Tonno Alla Marinara, a delicacy comprising tuna and tomato garlic sauce. Yummy desserts like Panna Cotta Italian mousse, Cannoli rolled pastry or the all-time favorite Tiramisu will definitely get you asking for more.

Vegetarian delight
To commemorate the birth anniversary of Sadhu T. L. Vaswani8217;s on November 25, an exotic multi-cuisine vegetarian food festival is organised on November 24 at the Poona Club Amphitheatre, Opposite Dastur Boys School by by Sadhu Vaswani Mission8217;s SAK Stop All Killing Association. The food festival will be from 6 pm onwards. This food festival is likely to attract thousands of food-lovers with some delicious and mouth- watering recipes, which includes: north indian, south indian, chinese, italian, sindhi and desserts on the menu. The idea behind the food festival is to promote vegetarianism and also to show that vegetarian food is equally healthy, nutritious and delicious, and to stop killing of animals. That8217;s not all 8211; it will truly be a treat for kids and youngsters as there are games, a magic show, mehendi, palmistry and what-have-you. A lucky draw too will be held where prizes to be won are a TV, DVD player, oven and many more. Children dressed as fruits and flowers will also be an added attraction for the visitors. Ashish Thadani will sing devotional bhajans.