Asian Lite News Archive

Category: Restaurant Reviews

  • Delectable Dining at XR London

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    Columnist and Restaurant Reviewer Riccha Grrover in an interview with Carlo Scotto, Chef-Owner of XR, Modern European cuisine with Asian influences showcasing restaurant in the heart of London’s fashionable Marylebone neighbourhood. An exclusive for Asian Lite International.   With over 15 years’ experience working in some of London’s top restaurants – including several Michelin-starred kitchens – Italian-born…

  • Indian food reaches new heights of fine dining at Benares London

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    Columnist and Restaurant Reviewer Riccha Grrover in an exclusive review of the iconic Mayfair london restaurant Benares and in conversation with their Executive Chef extraordinaire specialising in nouvelle Indian cuisine-Sameer Taneja, for Asian Lite International.  Chef Sameer spent many years working mainly with French chefs such as Pascal Proyart (2003-2009), Michel and Alain Roux (2009-2010), Joel…

  • Fusion Of Flavours

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    Columnist and Restaurant Reviewer Riccha Grrover in an exclusive review of  NoriTacos from brand Sugoi JPN and in conversation with the entrepreneur of award-winning food concept Felipe Preece for Asian Lite International.  Initially based out of a small dark kitchen under a railway arch in Bethnal Green, and catering to a local pub via a…

  • Wellington Restaurant: Daringly unique and insanely charming

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    Wellington Restaurant, which sees culinary maestro Brett Duarte, formerly executive chef of the Gaucho Group, showcases a carefully curated Modern European menu packed with unrivalled flavours and is created with only the finest seasonal ingredients. Duarte signature dishes include Hand-dived Orkney scallops – Whole Cornish Dover sole meunière and the finest Scotch Angus steaks. Accompanied…

  • Surrey restaurant among the UK’s best

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      One of Surrey’s most decorated Indian restaurants was celebrating its “biggest achievement to date” yesterday after being awarded two coveted AA Rosettes. Inspectors described India Dining, in Warlingham, as a “classy thoroughbred” that was a world-apart from usual Indian restaurants. The restaurant, a favourite with local celebrities, was said to possess a “wholly modern…

  • Regional cuisines come to the fore

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    Global cuisine is only touching the tip. Increasingly, you’ll be seeing more and more of regional cuisines from specific regions of countries like China and France… India’s ace Chef Sanjay Thomas talks to Vishnu Makhijani  Regional cuisines and Indian fusion dishes will be the flavour of the coming year, as will the effort to wean…

  • Punjabi menu goes down South

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     A moonlit roof-top restaurant, a gently caressing evening breeze, twinkling stars above and a starry-eyed loved one in front: all that is left to look forward to is, of course, good food. And if the food is from a different region, then there is nothing like it to wind up a busy, hot summer day…

  • Bengali zamindari cuisine @ Chennai

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    By Venkatachari Jagannathan  One of the unique aspects of Bengali cuisine, apart from the use of mustard oil, is that sugar is added to most of the dishes to balance the taste, a top chef from the five-star Taj Bengal said. “While the use of mustard oil in Bengali cuisine is a well-known aspect, adding…

  • Finger licking Southeast Asian cuisine

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    By Maybhushan Nagvenkar  A small part of the world fits into a bowl at a pan-Asian eatery in this Goa capital which offers a unique make-it-yourself meal experience. The Pan Asian Bowl offers foodies an opportunity to savour a wide range of Southeast Asian and East cuisine like Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Chinese and the like…

  • Mughali cuisine comes alive in Old Delhi

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    By Somrita Ghosh From eateries in the bylanes of the Walled City that evoke nostalgia to fancy restaurants that serve Japanese Sushi to Mexican salads, Delhi is a foodie’s paradise. But when it comes to savouring authentic Mughlai food, nothing can compete with Old Delhi and its charm. A paradise for lovers of non-vegetarian food,…

  • BBC Mughlai veg biryanis!

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    By Quaid Najmi  It was left to a pure vegetarian Gujarati family in Mumbai to whip up and serve some of the most popular non-vegetarian Mughlai cuisine – specially their lipsmacking Chicken Biryani, Mutton Biryani and other varieties. The renowned Borivali Biryani Centre – or simply, BBC – started in 2002 as a small mobile…

  • Discarded food Cafe opens in Bristol

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    A cafe opened this week in the English city of Bristol, dishing up meals made from thrown-away supermarket food rescued from waste skips. Discarded food from some of the city’s restaurants is also being recycled at Bristol’s newest eatery, Skipchen, a play on the word kitchen, Xinhua reported. Eager diners are happy to munch their…

  • It’s a double feast in Chennai

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    It’s a double feast for guests at the Ente Keralam chain of restaurants here – one for the belly and the other for the eyes. With the Onam festival beginning Saturday Ente Keralam has brought Ottamthullal dancer Pahuvil Gopinath as an added attraction along with the chef-cum-priest-ayurvedic doctor Unnikrishnan Namboodiri from Kerala to craft the…

  • Masala Library arrives in Dubai

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    Venkatachari Jagannathan says Masala Library is opening branches in Dubai, London and New York   Come August and Masala Library by Jiggs Kalra, the legendary Indian foodie’s maiden foray overseas, is set to begin commercial operations at Dubai’s Radisson Royal Hotel, a top company official said. It’ll serve up pan-Indian food with an Arabic twist. Zorawar Kalra,…

  • Beckham plans restaurant chain in US

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    Former England football captain David Beckham could soon be launching his own restaurant chain. The 39-year old is likely to call it – Beckham’s Bistro. “It’s got a good ring to it. It will be about dining. I’m a foodie and dining is a big part of this,” dailystar.co.uk quoted Beckham as saying. The US…

  • Dishoom – an Iranian café in London

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    Joyeeta Basu of Asian Lite, UK’s No 1 newspaper for the Brtish Asians, looks in to Dishoom – one of the most favourite restaurants in London   Walking into Dishoom in Shoreditch feels a bit like stepping in to the 1970s of Mumbai. The restaurant is as if inherited from an eccentric Iranian uncle. Exposed…