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We were wondering where to head for dinner one Saturday evening and among the suggestions I got, one was Spice Kitchen. This is one of the restaurants at the recently opened Marriott Hotel and Convention Centre on Senapati Bapat Road.

I’d been to Paprika a couple of times before, and the experience being good on those occasions, it seemed the perfect place to head to for a Sunday brunch with the family last week.

Was hearing a lot of talk lately about this new pub in town. We’d been planning a drinkup with office colleagues and this place seemed apt, and close, geographically speaking. Kiva Ivy is located on Baner Road, Pune, just after Hotel Mahableshwar, opposite the Symantec office. The place itself is decently done up, though the [...]

The week gone by was a crazy one, right since the time I got back to Pune last Sunday, what with meeting three sets of friends that evening, then some shoe shopping at Shoppers Stop, Wakdewadi (going there after ages) the next day, a visit to Kiva’s, then SGS Mall, McD et al. In short, [...]

Have been meaning to write about my recent visit to Bangalore (I know I know.. Bangalore again !! ), par kya karein, it is always wonderful to see my nephew and in fact this time we all went to celebrate his second birthday. It wasn’t as cold as it was the same time last year though during [...]

A friend and I were out for a drive earlier in the week, and as the morning gave way to afternoon, we started feeling hungry. After fixing on the area (Koregaon Park), the next thing was to decide the place. Neither of us was in the mood for a ‘proper’ lunch, rather a quick snack kinda thing. [...]

Hadn’t met up with a good friend of mine for a pretty long time, as each of us was busy with work and travel schedules. We decided to meet up for lunch today and as usual, there was a BIG discussion about where to go and more importantly, whether it was gonna be lunch or snacks on the [...]