Shantanu David

The writing is wry without being smug, the characters and their badinage engaging without getting stilted and as for the plot, well, let’s leave it at Tripathi gets the ingredients of a desi potboiler just right!

Mother India makes her way to Connaught Place, complete with nostalgia and regional Indian cuisines.

The new Cafe Yell gives an added punch to Continental treats.

In the city to showcase his family’s culinary legacy, Mohammad Usman of Tunday Kababi on the memories of his grandfather and why he will never expand the brand

An eerie organ tone, straight out of an episode of Tales from the Crypt, ushers you to The Stage, the album and and the song.

In such a combat, all Jack has is his courage, wit and special forces training to take out the competition, avoid literal pitfalls in labyrinthine mazes, and unravel the mysteries of the four legendary kingdoms.

Five years later, she’s in New York when she hears something that shatters her world — Fadi, now a battle hardened ISIS fighter has been killed in Syria by a US drone-strike.

The National Restaurant Association of India has reached some accords with various authorities in some matters but February’s closure shows that there’s quite a distance to go still.

Despite the market’s restrictions on maintaining a facade in congress with its pristine whiteness, AD Singh’s new venture beguiles you from afar, its psychedelic signage in Mystery Machine-esque font undulating across its frontage.

The restaurant promises a wild re-imagining of pan-Asian food and we leave ourselves at the tender mercies of a tasting menu.

Ansal Plaza, Delhi’s forgotten first mall, holds the promise of returning to public memory with a fleet of new restaurants and world-renowned retailers

The service charge advisory for restaurants may just deny employees payment parity and their source for supplementary income.

A fine-dining restaurant in Kolkata came under heavy fire for not allowing the driver of a patron to dine on its premises.

By some strange alchemy (and a lot of venture capital funding), popular restaurants this year sprouted in many avatars in different cities.

Few bands have more loyal followings than Korn, and few bands have tested the strength of that loyalty more than Korn.

As Christmas draws closer, we take a sleigh ride around leading kitchens in the country and ask chefs to dish out fun recipes to help light up your holiday table.

At Thai House by Kylin, it’s time to forget everything you know as Thai food and start afresh.

Celebrated illustrator Tom Richmond on growing up on a steady diet of comic books and working with his heroes, The Usual Gang of Idiots.

Vietnamese chef Hana Ho on her new restaurant in New Delhi.

Spread over several courses, the menu picks up both vegetarian and meaty delicacies from India's most royal kitchens in a meal that scores highly on all parameters.

A museum in Pattanam, Kochi, traces the journey of the black pepper and what made Muziris, the ancient seaport, one of the first cosmopolitan centres in the world.

In the 12th novel featuring Gamache, celebrated Canadian crime novelist Lousie Penny slowly unravels her tale in between conversations and breakfasts of maple-cured bacon and scrambled eggs with Brie.

The elevated Auro Kitchen and Bar plates out a pastiche of dishes in many different ways.

Name: Kill Order Author: Vince Flynn & Kyle mills Publisher: Simon and Schuster Pages: 374 Price: 550 From Russia, with Thugs Essentially a modern retelling of the iconic Bond novel, Kill Order is the latest in the Mitch Rapp series, now written by Kyle Mills, following the death of the original author, Vince Flynn. The […]