Like most good things in Dubai the creation of Dubai Chocolate comes from a marriage between East and West. It was created by ...

Sharing is not part of the Indian tradition when it comes to professional kitchens. Most great Indian chefs of a certain ...

It’s been a good week for Indian food. Okay, I’ll rephrase that. It’s been a great week; the best I can remember in a long time. By now we are all aware that Tresind Studio in Dubai has won three ...

It is a long time to be away but I had not been to London since the pandemic began. When travel restrictions relaxed, I did go to the West, but mainly to Italy; somehow there seemed to be no reason to ...

How will future generations remember our Prime Ministers? This is not a question about serious historical analysis but one about the rewriting and framing of history. It is no secret that for the last ...

This is a list that rather conveniently uses two different definitions when selecting the best Indian restaurants of the year. I have included some of the best ones serving Indian food around the ...

I have known Shrikant Wakharkar since his days as a Catering Assistant at the Taj Bengal. Shrikant moved to Calcutta in 1989 when the hotel opened, so even if I assume we only met a year or so later, ...

You’ve probably been reading about the Indian Ambassador to Ireland who also functions as a part-time Twitter cheer-leader. In case you missed it, here is the story: A newspaper called The Irish Times ...

Twitter can provide the strangest insights. When I travel to somewhere picturesque I post a picture of the view from my hotel room. Sometimes, it is just a way of sharing the beauty of the location.

I think I fell in love with Bangkok the very first time I visited the city as a schoolboy with my mother. The big hotel in town was the Siam Intercontinental which had acres and acres of gardens, a ...