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Riverside lounge-cum-restaurant Stone Water Grill celebrated Christmas with aplomb with a Christmas Week special menu.

Epicurean delight
Riverside lounge-cum-restaurant Stone Water Grill celebrated Christmas with aplomb with a Christmas Week special menu. Though steeply priced at Rs 2000 taxes for a table for two, the food joint at Koregaon Park had a wide spread of festive cuisine to mark the special day. There were delicious soups such as roasted pumpkin with pecan nut biscotti, green asparagus and white asparagus foam, smoked salmon mousse and Nori Terrine, and tenderloin with leek broth. The salads and appetizers included fig and braised green tomato with smoked scamorza crostini, red wine poached pear with wood fired roasted vegetable puff turnover and black olive vinaigrette, chicken liver mousse with brioche French toast and apple cinnamon jam.

For the main course, one could choose from seared John Dory and celery slaw with orange-jalapeno vinaigrette, traditional roast turkey roulade and red cabbage sour crout with cranberry glaze, smoked duck breast and candied sweet potatoes with warm carrot and snow pea salad, and port and red wine Risotto with braised radicchio. And to finish off the meal in style, there was grilled homemade bread butter pudding with caramelized banana, iced red wine poached figs with cinnamon ice-cream and Christmas pudding with brandy sauce.

Festive cuisine
The Christmas Day is all about Santa Claus paying his yearly visit, carols, music, Christmas trees, hot fudge and turkey. And the Taj Blue Diamond celebrated Christmas with much fervour. On offer was an elaborate spread of a multi-cuisine buffet, adorned with turkey with apple and cranberry sauce, tapas, cheese, salads, soups, and mouth-watering desserts. And that8217;s not all, as the Indian palette had a choice of Indian curries with Indian desserts. And just when you would have thought it was all, a complimentary glass of wine made the evening even more special.

A new bay everyday
For those with a willingness to try new cuisines and experiment with fresh, untested flavours, here8217;s a bit of welcome news. Time After Time 8212; the multi-cuisine cafeacute; at The Central Park Hotel, near INOX multiplex, is offering a fusion buffet at Rs 345, promising a gastronomic delight with a new cuisine every day. At this price, you can gorge to your palette8217;s delight on three non-vegetarian food items, four vegetarian dishes, five desserts and a glass of aerated drink/pint of beer, between 12:30 pm and 3 pm. The cuisine is from around the world, promising a true epicurean feast, if ever there was one.

Egg-ing on!
With the New Year round the corner, there are places galore to choose from, if you want to make the experience of welcoming the new year really memorable. And if you are still on the lookout for a place to dine, your search just might end at Aubergine, the global cuisine restaurant of Hotel Parc Estique in Viman Nagar. With a buffet spread consisting of menus from all over the world, this uniquely-named restaurant promises a mouthwatering experience of authentic delicacies. And it8217;s quite reasonably priced too, with breakfast, lunch and dinner, all priced at a uniform Rs 299. You can take your pick from French onion soup, Korean kimchi, oriental curries, chicken shashlik, to name a few. So, go ahead and indulge at the Aubergine brinjal or eggplant and usher in the coming year in true gourmet fashion.

Bread feast
For those who are fond of bakery products, here is the opportunity to grab hold of some delicious cakes and bakes! Ccasanova has extended its culinary expertise with an exclusive bakery division 8211; 8216;The Bakery Shop8217; 8212; which was launched on December 25 at Kalyani Nagar. Various types of delicious traditional cakes and breads will be available here, such as stab cheesecake, chocolate cake, chocolate almond cake and tiramisu. Other fruit flavors in cakes like pineapple and strawberry are also available at the bakery.