Archive for 'Food and Drink'

By The Way: Mumbai Restaurant With A Cause

Posted 09 July 2010 | By arzan sam wadia | Categories: Bombay, Food and Drink, Mumbai | No Comments

Sitting in this quaint restaurant, just gullies away from the furious churn of the Arabian sea, watching the rain steam up the glass double doors that open up to a leafy Grant Road lane, it’s hard not to fall in love with the monsoons again. By Mahithi Pillay / DNA The quiet clatter of cutlery, [...]

Pasta on the patra

Posted 28 June 2010 | By arzan sam wadia | Categories: Food and Drink | No Comments

The Parsi lagan nu bhonu, the last of the purist community wedding feasts in the city,is also going the mishmash way By Mahafreed Irani | TNN When Sam and Freny Satha were preparing to send out the invitations for their son Marks wedding recently, they felt an unstoppable surge of nostalgia. Their own wedding had [...]

Perizad Zorabian, The Monsoon and Chicken Shashlik Sizzlers

Perizad Zorabian, The Monsoon and Chicken Shashlik Sizzlers

Posted 23 June 2010 | By arzan sam wadia | Categories: Film, Food and Drink | No Comments

The odds that you might catch vivacious actor Perizad Zorabian in cook’s garb are narrow. By Ismat Tahseen / DNA Says the mother of two, “I rarely like to try my hand in the kitchen but my husband Boman believes that that when I cook, I cook very well. I’ve made an omelette quite exotic [...]

Britannia restaurant: Flying food and other Parsi tales

Posted 08 June 2010 | By arzan sam wadia | Categories: Bombay, Food and Drink, Mumbai | 10 Comments

Boman Kohinoor and his son/chef Romin tell CNNGo the long history of Britannia & Co. and share the sacred sali meat recipe from one of Mumbai’s best loved restaurants Article by Aarthi Gunnupuri / CNNGo In 1923, like a few other Zoroastrian immigrants from Iran, Rashid Kohinoor decided to get into the restaurant business in [...]

Kainaz Messman at Theobroma

Posted 15 April 2010 | By arzan sam wadia | Categories: Food and Drink | 7 Comments

I am a waitress… a cleaner… whatever my business needs me to be’ As patisserie Theobroma opens its second outlet we talk to owner Kainaz Messman about the toils and joys (not to mention kilos of cocoa) involved in satisfying Mumbai’s sweet tooth By Alisha Patel /CNNGo When George Bernard Shaw said "there is no [...]

Obituary: Dr (Mrs) Katy F Dalal

Posted 08 April 2010 | By arzan sam wadia | Categories: Food and Drink, Individuals | 6 Comments

Today is the Public Condolence meeting to mourn the death of Dr. Katy Dalal, who passed away recently. Details below. The following is an obituary written by Homai N. Modi and printed in the Mumbai Samachar of April 04, 2010 My first glimpse of Katy Dalal was when I just joined the K. R. Cama [...]

Katy Dalal Passes Away

Katy Dalal Passes Away

Posted 19 March 2010 | By arzan sam wadia | Categories: Food and Drink, Individuals | 8 Comments

Parsi Khabar is saddened to announce the passing away of Dr. Katy Dalal yesterday. Katy Dalal is legendary for her culinary skills especially with Parsi cuisine. Over the years we as a family have enjoyed wonderful meals ordered from her on festive occassions. She also catered on a lot of the days before both the [...]

The Iranian Pilao: Berry at its Best

Posted 01 February 2010 | By arzan sam wadia | Categories: Food and Drink | 9 Comments

The Zereshk Pilao is one of the most stunning rice dishes one can possibly serve. The dish has a warm ruby glow with the burberries studding the rice with colour and the saffron with fragrance. This gives this Pilao a superiority and magnificence that is not easily replicated. It is one of the great dishes [...]

Dorabjee & Sons: Flavours of the Past

Posted 29 November 2009 | By arzan sam wadia | Categories: Food and Drink | No Comments

Going to Dorabjee’s is like stepping into the pages of a Farrukh Dhondy short story (many of which were set here, in the gullies of Sarbatwala Chowk). In fact, looking around, we could swear we spotted characters like the crafty Minocher Toot, the sanctimonious Soli Kolmi and the tight-fisted Miss Bepsi Kohla sitting at nearby [...]

Murree Brewery Still brewing in a dry land: Pakistan’s Parsi Brewery

Posted 12 November 2009 | By arzan sam wadia | Categories: Food and Drink | No Comments

Still brewing in a dry land: Pakistan’s only beer and whisky firm After 150 years, business is booming at Pakistan’s only beer and whisky firm. Andrew Buncombe finds out why   On the walls of the historic Murree brewery, Pakistan’s sole producer of beer, hangs a slogan that its owners would wish upon the entire [...]

Akuri: Eggsciting recipes

Posted 06 November 2009 | By arzan sam wadia | Categories: Food and Drink | 4 Comments

One of my favourite breakfast preparations is scrambled eggs, even higher on the scale of delicacy, is the akuri, a much underrated dish. Akuri means egg curry in its most basic sense.It is like dhansak and patra ni machi,considered to be a pan-Indian favourite. The Parsis have a love affair with eggs. You have the [...]

Parsi Memories: Ideal Restaurant

Posted 05 November 2009 | By arzan sam wadia | Categories: Bombay, Food and Drink, Memories, Mumbai | 5 Comments

By Rusi Sorabjee IDEAL RESTAURANT ….a gastronomic heaven (Still there in 2009,But shifted about 100 mtrs away and inside from main road.) (The IRANI Restaurant… quintessentially Zarathushti Restaurant of old.) It was an old building standing guard –resolute and proud – on Hornby Road, a street that was and still is the main artery of [...]

Paris Bakery

Posted 25 October 2009 | By arzan sam wadia | Categories: Bombay, Food and Drink, Mumbai | 5 Comments

The opening line from an old and much loved nursery rhyme buzzed around my ears, as I walked to the romantically named Paris Bakery recently. The origin of the name of this perennially crowded shop, located halfway down the narrow Our Lady of Dolours Church lane, off Princess Street, is shrouded in rather vague and [...]

Authentic Irani Food in Bombay: Cafe Universal

Posted 31 August 2009 | By arzan sam wadia | Categories: Bombay, Food and Drink, Mumbai | 2 Comments

It’s funny that the only Irani features in an Irani cafe are black tea and its owner. The menu usually has Parsi food, which has more in common with Lucknow than Tehran. It’s ironic that the city’s fair-sized population of Iranis-both Muslims and Zoroastrians who migrated to India from Iran several centuries after their Parsi [...]

Jamva Chalo Ji at Zamu’s Place

Posted 21 August 2009 | By arzan sam wadia | Categories: Festivities, Food and Drink | 8 Comments

The Guide drops in at Zamu’s Place to celebrate the Parsi New Year Today’s Special at the 22-year old Parsi eatery on DP Road is a mouth-watering spread of Kid Gosht, Sali Chicken, Mutton Pulao Dal and Chicken Farcha. The occasion is Pateti or the Parsi New Year and the restaurant is offering sumptuous dishes, [...]

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