APPETITE FOR A STROLL – A Hearty Meal from the Heart of India – MOUTHWATERING KOLHAPURI MEMORIES

A Kolhapuri meal, unique in its simplicity, comprises a variety of lip-smacking, earthy, flavorsome, nourishing dishes and is so complete that it creates within you a inimitable hearty wholesome sense of fulfillment, and is a welcome change from the ubiquitous fatty and greasy-rich Makhanwalla, Masala, Kadhai, Handi, Naan, Biryani, Punjabi and Mughlai style fare you eat day in and day out.

Blue Nile – The Best Biryani in Pune

BLUE NILE BIRYANI
 
By
 
VIKRAM KARVE
 
 
 
 
My darling “foodie” sister suddenly lands up in the evening from Mumbai and commands, “Let’s go to Blue Nile!”
 
“You sure?” I ask, a bit incredulous.
 
“Yes,” she says peremptorily, “I’m in a mood for a nostalgic Biryani!”
 
And soon we are sitting in Blue Nile – a quaint, old-world, down-to-earth, high turnover, no-frills, old-world ”heritage” [...]

APPETITE FOR A STROLL Foodie Adventures, Simple Recipes, Musings on The Art of Eating and Vikram Karve’s Authentic Guide to Value For Money Food in Mumbai and Pune

APPETITE FOR A STROLL 
[Foodie Adventures, Simple Recipes, Musings on The Art of Eating and Vikram Karve’s Authentic Guide to Value For Money Food in Mumbai and Pune]

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VIKRAM KARVE
 
I have recently written a Foodie Adventures Book – Appetite for a Stroll.
Please click the link and read the review of Appetite for a Stroll titled Food for [...]

Mumbai Good Food Guide – Foodie Day

Click the link and enjoy a Foodie Day in Mumbai:
http://vikramkarve.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/foodie-day-in-mumbai.htm
Happy Eating
Vikram Karve
http://vikramkarve.sulekha.com

A Yummy Indian Cuisine – Dabba Gosht – Recipe

Want to try dabba gosht – just click the link below
http://vikramkarve.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/dabba-gosht-my-all-time-favorite.htm
Happy Eating
Vikram Karve
http://vikramkarve.sulekha.com

Rustic Indian Chicken Curry

MOUTHWATERING MEMORIES – RUSTIC INDIAN CHICKEN CURRY AT A WAYSIDE DHABA IN VISAKHAPATNAM [VIZAG]
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VIKRAM KARVE
It’s a cold, damp and depressing evening in the back of beyond place where I now live.. There is an ominous wind, menacing lightening and disturbing thunder, and it starts to rain. Predictably, the lights go off, adding to the gloomy [...]

Value For Money Dining in Mumbai

BAGHDADI  [Bagdadi]
WHOLESOME VALUE FOR MONEY NON VEG FOOD IN COLABA MUMBAI
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VIKRAM KARVE

Next time you are on Colaba Causeway, in Mumbai, have a meal in Baghdadi. It’s on the ‘Bade Mian’ lane (turn left as you walk down past Regal before Mondegar, and then after a couple of steps take the first turn right, walk past [...]

MUMBAI BY NIGHT – EATING OUT

SEAFOOD IN KOLIWADA

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VIKRAM KARVE
You must have noticed a dish called “Fish Koliwada” or “Prawn Koliwada” on the menu cards of many restaurants. Recipe books too feature “Koliwada” recipes, and I’ve observed a few eateries featuring “Koliwada” in their names. But have you gone to the one and only Sion-Koliwada (in Mumbai) from which these yummy [...]

Biryani

MY FAVORITE PLACES FOR BIRYANI
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VIKRAM KARVE
When I was a small boy living in Pune in the sixties, there were only two places where I liked the Biryani: Dorabjee in Pune Camp and Good Luck at Deccan.
Now, there are a dime a dozen restaurants serving oily, greasy, fiery-hot and over-spiced concoctions of rice masquerading as Biryani. [...]

TV AND THE TRENCHERMAN

TV and the Trencherman
 
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Vikram Karve
 
 
 
 
I try to masquerade as a connoisseur of good food, a gourmet, but in actual fact I am somewhat of a trencherman – a down to earth foodie with a hearty appetite who loves eating simple authentic earthy food. That’s why I prefer [...]