While I polished off the last spoon of Qimmami Sewainya (Vermicelli Dessert), my partner in crime, Attulah Shaikh commented,” The beginning was great, so was the end and in between the two, it was a delightful journey of taste“. This sentence sums up the experience we had at Gharana-E-Rampur, a food festival curated around this lost cuisine by Chef, Food Critic and Culinary Historian Osama Jalali at Doubletree By Hilton, Gurgaon.

Frankly, I had gone there to enjoy the non-vegetarian fare by the Jalali family (his wife and mother are equal partners in the kitchen in preparing the family recipes). However, the vegetarian dishes were equally great and tasteful. Each dish was a delight for the camera and a feast for the palate. In other words, the food was both Instagramable and Blogable !! (more…)


