The Dark Nights return… to Mumbai
Firstly, we're sorry that it took us this long to announce Restaurant Week Mumbai - it makes us feel worse that some of you may have even heard about it through the press (Time Out had a listing on the issue that released on the 21st and Mumbaiboss just posted an article an hour back).
So here goes: the next Restaurant Week Mumbai will be February 7-13, 2011 and features seven new restaurants (well, new in that they didn't feature the last time around). The list is Vetro at The Oberoi, Kebab Corner at the InterContinental Marine Drive, Olive Bar & Kitchen in Mahalaxmi, The Table in Colaba (which is, actually, new), Azok in Juhu, The Great Wall at The Leela Kempinski and Stax at the Hyatt Regency. It still is INR 1,000 per head excluding taxes for a three-course meal.
What's changed?
1) Better timings - we realise 7.30 and 8.30 was way too early for most of you, so this time around all restaurants are offering two dinner seatings
2) Better menus - based on feedback from the inaugural Restaurant Week, we felt there needed to be more options and, in some cases, better. We hope you will appreciate the menus this time around -
3) Speaking of menus, all of them are online so you can see them before deciding whether you want to make a reservation
4) Reservation chart - We now have a table with restaurants and seatings with a clear indication of what is available. This means that you can decide what to reserve based on whats available quickly rather than making several searches.
5) Wine pairing - Since we know how much you love booze, there is an option of having your food paired with wine at an extra INR 1,000 per head - these are all imported wines.
6) You can register using Facebook if you prefer
Reservations should be open later tonight - as always, we are grateful for your support!
…Aaaand, we’re back!
So, what have you been up to?
The RWI team has been, well, a bit debauched as always... but still alive. We lost our interns to education (stupid education!), one of our team members began work on a Mexican restaurant in Mumbai (though slowed down once the Tequila tastings started), one went off to Paris to 'learn culinary arts' and another is hard at work trying to set-up some sort of evil financial institution in Africa designed to take over the world. Cue, diabolical laugh.
But, we managed to pull it together and come up with the inaugural Restaurant Week Delhi - it will run from January 31 - February 06, 2022 and we have to admit, we loved the process of organising this one. Since we are based in Mumbai, it was always going to be a lot harder short-listing 10-12 restaurants to approach in order to narrow it down to a final 7. This involved a lot of eating (which is always difficult), and a lot of solicitation of opinions from people in the industry in Mumbai as well as friends and family in Delhi. The final list, we feel, is fairly balanced between cuisine, location and ambience and we hope you will appreciate the hard work our tummies went through during the process.
Reservations are now open for Delhi (http://www.restaurantweekindia.com/event/Delhi); we will be announcing Restaurant Week Mumbai very soon too. Please help the cause by spreading the word, booking tables, and most importantly, trying out these restaurants and (hopefully) going back repeatedly.
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