In these hard times, restaurants make a hullabaloo over the kid’s festival, Halloween, in a feeble effort to lure customers to spend. On Friday night, all roads led to the Tabula Rasa, the Middle Eastern resto-bar that rocked Delhi all of last year, but has recently fallen off the party map. About 500 revellers in pirate patches, bleeding gloves, dark fairy wings, black capes and lantern bags ploughed the dance floor, whipping to house music cranked out by Devil DJ’s from House Kandy until 1.30 am. The décor — a mélange of skeletons, spider webs, pumpkin faces and images from the movie Omen — added to the comically sinister ambience. While alcohol flowed freely, chef KP Singh prepared delicious Lebanese shawarma and grilled prawns. “We were the first to host a Halloween bash and start the concept. Last year, about 1,500 people, mostly expatriates, trooped in for the party,” says Sohrab Sitaram, owner of Tabula Rasa, who came sans the Halloween costume. However, his partner Rohan Gupta (top left, in the picture with Kim) showed up in a police uniform and two streaks across the face.
