“Hriday amar nache re…” the melodious song by Rabindranath Tagore, which means my heart dances to the joy of New Year beginning, is reminiscent of the enthusiasm and gaiety with which Baisakhi is celebrated in West Bengal. To mark the occasion with the same fervor, Brown Sahib welcomes you to their Poila Boishak celebrations from 14 April 2010 to 21 April 2010 to enjoy the new beginnings of a delightful year.
True to their culture and tradition, Brown Sahib promises to offer you the best of Bengal by giving its guests …

Have you ever wondered what goes on behind that restricted access door in your favourite restaurant?
“Big Fan” is what I was known as whenever I entered one of my favourite neighbourhood restaurants. I absolutely loved the food, which was consistently hot and delicious and the waiters greeted us with a smile every time.
On the face of it, it couldn’t really get any better. All of us being carnivores to the core, we ordered our favourite items on the menu – The Great Indian Chicken Tikka, Mutton Seekh Kebab, and some …

Don’t be misled by the title – the Rajasthani Food Festival at Coriander Leaf is not about Dal, Bati and Churma only. In fact, the Rajasthani food menu is made up of an elaborate menu – a lot bigger than you see at most food festivals.
We (me and Kanchan) arrived at Coriander Leaf relatively early on a quiet Tuesday evening – there wasn’t much of a crowd at 7:30pm. The sound of water and numerous earthen lamps at the doorstep greeted us as we entered the very popular restaurant. Mr …

For centuries, people have been experimenting with mixing alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks. But the origin of the name cocktail has always been a controversy – one which gives way to newer stories, each one more interesting than the previous. Here are some tales that we found circling the web’s cocktail circles:

Betsy, the barmaid:
Betsy, a barmaid in a tavern in Hall’s Corners, NY, served Betsy’s Bracers. During the Revolutionary War, American & French soldiers frequented it. American soldiers stole some male pheasants from the British & a wild party was had. …

If all of us here at foodiebay.com had a religious mascot it would have been Ganpati without any bias. Now it’s not at all funny but a fact that he’s the biggest foodie among all the 84 crore Gods there are. This is vividly visible from the half man and half elephant configuration, his size and the quality and quantity of Prasad that is offered to him.
Now in all these thousands of years it’s really been very difficult to know about Ganesha’s diet chart (except that he was a vegetarian) …

Over the past year or so, we have all come across features, articles, stories, reviews et al in every possible newspaper and magazine we subscribe to, or that are scattered innocuously all across our office cafeteria.  At some point, we’ve all been fed theories about how the Japanese food and especially Sushi is making inroads deep into Indian palate scene.
Just what is this noise all about?  What exactly IS Sushi and why did any other cuisine not find as much newsprint paper available to it, as Sushi?  Let me attempt …

One of the nicer things restaurants can (or rather must) do is to establish themselves as a brand. This is particularly important in the era of food courts and home delivery. A new customer in a food court always tends to fall back on a brand name that he can identify with. A customer sitting at home is also more likely to order from an established brand name, which he thinks is synonymous with consistent quality and service.
Many chains in India have actually failed to create a brand name worth …