Last Sunday, I was feeling lazy to cook, so ordered from this new outlet The Gourmet Kitchen.
Gourmet Kitchen was born out of lack of options for a healthy home delivered food with great taste and effective packaging. The Gourmet Kitchen creates Healthy Gourmet Food with the best ingredients which are made at their centralized kitchen.
Cuisine
They have multi-cuisines. They serve breakfast, lunch, dinner and drinks. They also cater for events, home delivery, and takeaways.
So, we ordered two varieties – Continental and Indian. We started off the meal with having the fresh watermelon juice.
In the continental meal, we had ordered Grilled mahi avocado salsa, a whole grilled fillet of fish marinated in Lebanese Spices on a bed of fresh avocado and corn-based tomato salsa served with middle eastern rice and fresh coleslaw. It was delicious. The fish was well cooked.
The Indian Non-Veg meal had a choice of Butter Chicken or Chicken Tikka Masala with 2 pieces of Tandoori Roti accompanied with Rice and Indian Salad.
If you are a vegetarian, you can order for the Indian Veg Meal which has a choice of Butter Paneer or Paneer Tikka Masala with 2 pieces of Tandoori Roti served with Rice and Indian Salad.
Workout meal After a workout, you must try out their workout meal grilled Rosemary Chicken, Egg White Omelette accompanied with steamed vegetables and Fresh Juice or Smoothie. A perfect booster after your workout.
In addition to this, for the health and fitness enthusiast, they have a DIET BREAKFAST MEAL an Egg White Omelette with Chicken Sausage/ Hash Brown served with Salad accompanied with Fresh Juice.
Packaging
The packaging was excellent.
Finally, this is an ideal place if you want a gourmet/fine dine food at your doorstep. They deliver to your doorstep with great taste and packaging. This is an awesome place to order a gourmet food as they have used exotic ingredients to make it far better than other normal delivery places.
If you wish to place an order with The Gourmet Kitchen here is the menu
Being a foodie is a good thing about Kolkata or our dear old Calcutta. During my last visit to the capital of West Bengal, I was thrilled to browse through the old city and the bylanes of the ancient New Market.
The hand-pulled rickshaw juxtaposed with the modern hi-tech automobiles, the bright yellow taxis barging through the traffic, and the trams claiming their long-owned space amidst the shiny new vehicles – marks the beginning of Kolkata.
Ahritola Sarbajanin Durgatsab Image source-
The land of rosogolla and larger-than-life Durga Puja celebrations steals everyone’s heart with its traditional-yet-contemporary essence.
The city stands tall with the pride of being known for its world-famous cuisine, popular places of interest and immense historical significance.
PUCHKA KHARDA , KOLKATA , WEST BENGAL , INDIA Image credit- Satadaldas1966
Are you an ardent gol gappa fan? Well, I am! So, you can basically eat at any big joint or roadside vendor of this most popular peppery delicacy and you will not be disappointed. The famous phuchkas of the City of Joy are a must-have! Rest assured, they will ignite the love for the spicy water balls even in the most discerning palates. While there, I also pampered my taste buds with some soft and juicy sondesh, hot and tempting chelo kebab – a non-veg specialty, filling and irresistible macher jhol (fish curry), famous Kolkata biryani, and some flavored mishti dohi. I suggest you try these and more culinary delights the city has to offer in abundance.
Bengali-rosogolla Image credit
The place is indeed a foodie’s paradise. Another remarkable thing I found out was that it was here that Nobin Chandra Das – the father of rossogolla, created the legendary sweet for the first time in 1868. Were you aware of this fact? At their store – K C Das – at Esplanade East, in the much-celebrated New Market – it was surprising to see the benchmarks of quality, taste, and innovation being still maintained as laid down by the man himself. Make sure you try their rossomalai too, because who says no to succulent delights that changed the course of Bengali sweets!
The city of palaces – Kolkata – has a pleasant surprise for avid readers too. Situated at Belvedere Estate, the grand National Library of India is a citadel of knowledge – boasting a rich history as well as an ostentatious collection of books. And why not, it is the land of the great laureate – Rabindranath Tagore – first non-European ever to be honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature. Also, it will be great if you can plan your visit around Kolkata book fair – Asia’s largest and world’s biggest non-trade book fair. It holds a record of receiving maximum footfall, thanks to its tag of possessing the largest collection of books – after Frankfurt and London Book Fair.
Gariahat Book Stalls. Source: planetden.com
Have you heard of the saying, ‘if you do not get a book in College Street, Kolkata, then the book probably does not exist.’ Yes, this is what the Kolkatans claim. And the hustling bustling avenues of College Street – world’s second largest handed-down book market – with the rarest of rare editions in its charge reinforces it loud and clear.
That is not it, the reasons to visit the beautiful cultural capital of India have just begun. While some of you are nodding your head in agreement there are some who can’t wait to find out more.
Eden Gardens under floodlights during a match Image credit- JokerDurden
We have all grown up watching, playing, and dreaming cricket. Our heads are held high and chest soars with pride at the mention of cricketing legends – Kapil Dev, Sachin Tendulkar and more. And we equally pride ourselves on being home to the second largest cricket stadium in the world – Eden Gardens – located in B.B.D Bagh area, opposite Calcutta High Court, Kolkata. You will be surprised to know that the century-old stadium constructed in 1864 was the second ever to host a cricket world cup final, in 1987. The grounds stand witness to some thrilling football as well as cricket matches, every iconic player of all times, and is currently the home spot for the Kolkata Knight Riders team.
It does not end here – the Calcutta Cricket and Football Club also is significant in the sense that it is ranked as world’s second oldest cricket club.
Won’t you kill me if I asked you if you have heard of the Durga Puja or Durgotsava celebrations especially held in Kolkata, Bengal? So I will rather ask, how many of you have been fortunate enough to partake in or be face to face with the extraordinarily towering gala that the whole city plunges in during the festival? Every house, lane, temple and individual is decorated in the colors of happiness, auspiciousness, and merriment. It was in my bucket-list since long and I would say I am more than privileged to have finally witnessed and indulged – like the locals – in the majestic nine-day Navratri festivities of the city. You must, too.
With this to start with, book your dates and tickets for the magnificent city: there is much more you will feel, see, and find out once you reach. Besides your lens capturing the best moments to be cherished forever, your heart will tirelessly snap the influencing essence of the city to be treasured everlastingly.
Author Bio : The author Suhani Singh is a writer by passion and profession, currently creating magic from her keyboard as an assistant content manager at salebhai.com
On 31st March, I was invited to the launch of Sanjeev Kapoor Official App.
Well, you may ask
Who is Sanjeev Kapoor?
Chef Sanjeev Kapoor is the most celebrated face of Indian cuisine.
He is a Chef extraordinaire
runs the successful TV Channel Food Food
hosted Khana Khazana cookery show on television for more than 17 years
the author of 150+ best-selling cookbooks, restaurateur, and winner of several culinary awards.
He is living his dream of making Indian cuisine No.1 in the world and empowering women through the power of cooking.
He has been a pioneer in the Indian culinary field and has been awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest Civilian award in the Republic of India.
Who developed his app?
The Sanjeev Kapoor Official app is developed by Escapex, a New York, technology firm producing white label apps for artists such as Bob Marley, Jeremy Renner, Paris Hilton, Marc Anthony, Enrique Iglesias, Sunny Leone, Remo D’Souza, Amy Jackson, Kajal Aggarwal, Disha Pattani and 70 other celebrities.
The firm was founded in Dec 2014 by mobile and entertainment entrepreneurs has 70 team members working around the world where control is in the hands of creators, not platforms.
Where those driving engagements are compensated not the networks they use. Where communication is direct, no intermediaries. Where everyone can be seen.
Sanjeev Kapoor App Features
The new app will provide unique features
like push notifications, Featured Videos, Superstar posts, contests, Superfan badges, a subscription service, live Broadcast of cookouts, and a live chat between Kapoor and his fans.
An exciting, patented feature will transform how fans interact with Sanjeev by giving them the option to boost their or peers’ comments to increase visibility and actually be seen by the star himself.
By turning recognition into virtual currency, the entire fan base can trade their earned or purchased in-app currency to promote themselves and others to the top of the comments feed and become Top Fans.
This one of a kind tool also increases fan-2-fan engagement while giving users a true sense of community.
The app is free for fans and displays the same targeted advertising content users see on his social media- Facebook, Twitter, and Google.
Sanjeev Kapoor on his app
“It is my responsibility to make sure that my fans and users live a healthy and tasty life. Through this App I can engage with them and understand their needs better to help them live a fitter life. “
Where was this launch?
At St. Regis, Mumbai
And, finally, the food –
If there is a Chef then there has to be food accompanying it.
If you are foodie and Sanjeev Kapoor fan then you must download this app here.
I was invited by my friends for a pre-launch of Café Mojo. It was kind of surprise location. It is inside Goldfinch hotel in Andheri East, Mumbai, India. It is an English pub with an authentic Goan twist. Café Mojo, opened in 2012 in Goa, where friends could meet up and have a good time. They have now multiple locations around the country.
Ambience
The ambience is good. It has a dual seating rooftop with (Shesha) and the interior with a dim background. They have a live screening of matches. The décor is all wood with frames all around on the walls. The outdoor seating is cool.
Food and Drink
Some great food with chilled beer was awesome. They offer you a prepaid beer recharge – E-beer Card. It is a unique system of prepaid cards where you just need to put your refilled card on the card reader on your table and the tap on your table will pour beer in your glass till you have a balance on the card….and the screen above your tap shows how much litres you have had. I like the card concept wherein you could recharge your card and keep calling for booze.
The food is good but could be better. Beer Battered Prawns which were succulent and tasty. C3-balls made up of cheese and corn were cool.
The prices were reasonable.
The Watermelon Cocktail was nice.
Music
The DJ plays some awesome music which makes you dance your heart out.
Time to leave–
We saw this sign outside café mojo when we left –
Reminding us to be back for more!
Cafe Mojo will be having a re-invention party on 17 December.
To conclude, all in all, it was a great Night hangout in Mumbai for unwinding. You can get your mojo back at the end of the day from work.
