If I asked you to name the most famous north Indian restaurant in the world, my guess is that you would pick the obvious contender: Bukhara. And, by and large, most people would agree with you. It’s ...

A few weeks ago at HICSA, India’s most important hotel investment conference, Manav Thadani, who runs HVS, the organisation behind HICSA, presented Ajit Kerkar with a lifetime achievement award.

Nobody seriously disputes that it will take the global economy a long time to recover from the Corona virus pandemic. In India, when and if the problems caused by the lockdown are solved, we will then ...

I can still remember when I first met AD Singh. It was 1998 and I had been invited to moderate a session at a food summit in Bombay. On the panel were some well-known names from the food business of ...

If you have been following the furore over the price of tomatoes, you will note that reporters and political analysts often refer to tomatoes as a basic staple of Indian cooking and the food of the ...

Should Rahul Gandhi have been critical of the way things are in today’s India when he spoke in the UK? Does this amount to asking white people to colonise India as some BJP supporters have suggested?

We now have a rough idea of what the food of ancient India was NOT like. We know that there were no potatoes. There were no tomatoes. There was no corn. And most intriguing of all, there were no ...

Sometimes a hotel can make or break your trip. I was invited to San Sebastian (in the Basque country in Spain) to attend Gastronomika, an international foodie seminar where India was the focus country ...

It is Bangkok time in India. By the time you read this, Gaggan Anand will have finished his whirlwind tour of four cities. The Suhring twins will be on the last day of their pop-up at the Taj Mahal ...

I usually end each year or begin the following one by listing all the food trends I have observed over the last 12 months. This year, for reasons too tedious to recount, I neglected to do such a piece ...

A month or so ago, I met up with Abhay Ahuja, the son of my late friend Pashi Ahuja. Abhay who has inherited his father’s passion for hospitality and his entrepreneurial skill is looking to revive ...

The first time I had an authentic Peking Duck in India was at the Great Wall restaurant at the Leela Palace in Mumbai twenty years ago. I was having lunch with Captain CP Krishnan Nair, the Leela ...