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City Food – Homemade Mango Ice Cream, Gharib Nawaz Guest House

May 29, 2013
Ice cream

A chilling cordiality. This is one of the most sublimely authentic ice creams to be had in Delhi. The unnamed stall at the entrance of Gharib Nawaz Guest House in the Walled City’s Matia Mahal bazaar sells homemade mango ice cream in summer as well as in...
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City Food – Chinjabi Chow and Date Pancake with Vanilla Ice-cream, Daitchi Restaurant

May 3, 2013
Chinjabi

Delhi’s comfort cuisine. This is restaurant food for those who get unsettled by the new – especially when it comes in the form of Manipuri or French cuisine, or some other similarly unfamiliar provincial/global style of cooking that becomes a star of the season. Since 1975, Daitchi...
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Mission Delhi – Salim Khan, Kasturba Gandhi Marg

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June 6, 2013

One of the one percent in 13 million. He picks a slab...
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Mission Delhi – Bonisha Bhattacharyya, South Park Street Cemetery

May 13, 2013

One of the one percent in 13 million. Wading through the warm,...
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Mission Delhi – Jyoti Mariyam Hora, Indian Christian Cemetery

April 28, 2013

One of the one percent in 13 million. How to find her?...
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India International Centre

City Hangout – Dining Room & Lounge, India International Centre

Dining with the VIPs. Request the fifth table on the right. For before he became president, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam would take his vegetarian thali there. The table was also preferred by late prime minister V.P. Singh. Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi has dined at the same spot....

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