What to eat while in Mumbai

While in Mumbai, never miss out on anything. Well, that’s the melody that I have practically crammed; because Mumbai spoils you with choices, quite literally. While many people call Mumbai ruthless, I would aggressively digress. Okay, it might be polluted and terribly crowded. But it takes care of your needs, specially your eating needs like no other Indian City. There are restaurants in Mumbai, and then there are some best restaurants in Mumbai, too.

Be it breakfast, lunch or dinner, Mumbai never fails to surprise. With a never ending slew of some absolutely breathtaking restaurants coming up every other month, the consumers are as good as pushed into a dilemma. Take Baba Ling’s Ling Pavilion in Colaba, for instance which is a Chinese restaurant.

Or wait, correction- It’s one of the most authentic and distinct Chinese restaurant that produces the most authentic and distinct Chinese restaurant. Be its pork soup dumplings, pepper prawns or chilli garlic pomfret or even eggs Benedict that are hard to find anywhere else, everything is equally lip smacking and tongue ravaging.

The next stop, again, can be a tough deal. Even while writing this, I feel slightly baffled! What to write about next?

Probably Sindhudurg at Sena Bhavan. If you ever face a craving to have the best Breakfast spiked with all the typical Maharashtrian elements, Sindhudurg is the place to be. Masalas are freshly brewed and the food has the exquisite element to it. In vegetarian and Non vegetarian both, you will be blessed with ample choices.

If you wish to pamper yourself with a royal ambience, try The Sahib room. It’s an upscale fine dine that would leave you marvelling at its lavish aura. The food is terrific, and creatively cooked. No decoration drama, rather the flavours are tampered with, and for good too!

The list of divine restaurants in Mumbai is eternal, and immortal. The chase to find the best among the best, that even rules out the posh restaurants of Vasant Kunj, the will leave out panting for breath!

Are you planning to conduct a cocktail party?

Cocktail party! How fascinating and exciting it sounds when we talk about having a cocktail party either with our friends or with our family. So, have you ever thought of planning to conduct a cocktail party? Or have you ever thought how to conduct one? Well, let me tell you. Any party cannot be conducted in a night. Preparations are anyway required to have proper arrangements before hand so that you can avoid any kind of problem during a party. You can have so many available options of Best cocktails and even their recipes for your party. But, what are the prior steps that you need to take before hand.

First of all, make the guest list. Obviously, any of your friends will definitely feel bad if you forgot to invite him. So, by not taking any risk, do make a guest list that has the list of people whom you want to invite. Once you are done with your guest list, the next thing that you have to carry out is to calculate budgets of how much can you afford to spend and how much are you actually spending. The third step is to send invitations to the people in your list. You can call them personally or you can even have printed invitation cards to make it a formal invitation. It is preferable to send the invitations two weeks prior to the actual day of the party.

At last, you need to have the drinks, oh no, I must say cocktails. You can even prepare them at home but it would be really difficult for you to prepare for a group of people and for that purpose you can order it. You can get best cocktails in almost every part of India but yes, there are best restaurants in Bangalore that serve the best cocktail that you can ever get in India.

Now you can prepare cocktails at home

Summer is on the way and it is the right time to organize get together parties as you get countless delighting options such as cocktails in your parties, without getting effected in terms of bank balance in any way. Basically, Cocktail is a mixed drink made of liquor and other flavoring agents that are consumed. Earlier, cocktails were prepared with combination of rum or whiskey with a small amount of vodka. But now, it may contain milk, honey, fruit juice, spices, cream, water etc.

Today's best cocktails are prepared using these ingredients but without water mainly in bars and hubs. One of its disadvantages is that sometimes bartenders add both non-alcoholic and alcoholic ingredients together that can be really hazardous for your health. Therefore, many people prefer to prepare cocktails at their homes as it is not really difficult to prepare it. Its main benefit is that even a sip of a cocktail may keep you relieved and distress from headache.

In India, some of best restaurants in Bangalore are really popular for their best serving cocktails. In fact, everyone today is fond of having a cocktail experience at in these restaurants in Bangalore. The quantity of alcohol is the least in cocktails when compared to any other alcoholic drinks. This is one of the prime reasons to why the cocktails prepared by bartenders containing more of alcohol can be injurious to health.

Since its price is too high and people have started preparing them at their homes, let me tell you the three basic steps to prepare it. It includes blending, mixing and then shaking. Add your ingredients in a common bowl and blend them properly. Mix the ingredients as gently as possible. Then, shake or muddle it before pouring into the glass. You can serve it chilled as it tastes best when chilled in brown shaped glasses that are made to stand on a stem over a flat surface.

Choosing the right glass for serving cocktails

The myriad of options in glassware can get rather overwhelming when it comes to choosing the right cocktail glasses to serve to your guests. While visiting some of the best restaurants in Bangalore I have always noticed that the silverware and glassware are both specific to the kind of food or drink being served. But, what works with what exactly was hard to figure out. I did not want to make a social faux pas by serving the right dish on the wrong platter and certainly not to the wrong palate.

After a while, it occurred to me that there is a specific pattern as to what drink goes with which glass and I researched further. If you were to understand why a certain thing is served in a particular way, it gets a lot easier than memorizing things. So, here’s a brief explanation for you to know the right way to serve the best cocktails.

Lowball

A lowball glass has a thick glass bottom and are uniformly shaped and short and stout. These are used with drinks that are poured directly into the glass and served, i.e. they don’t require mixing glasses and shakers. Besides this, drinks that are typically served with ice cubes can also be served in it. The shape and size is ideal to maintain and retain the temperature for long. Carbonated or soda cocktails are not served in these as it risks spilling due to the short size.

Highball

These are tall glasses shaped more or less like lowball. Drinks which require mixing in the glass or have an effervescent component are ideally served in these. The narrow body reduces the surface area allowing the carbonated essence to last longer. There are other variations to these such as a flute which is used with champagne and Collins glass for more fruity drinks. However, the three are interchangeable and if you don’t own one of the best restaurants in Bangalore and need it for home use, it is more practical to purchase just one.

Coup

These are stemmed glasses but round at the bowl, unlike a martini glass; and the both play pretty much the same role. Any drink served that is usually served without ice and requires stirring are served in these. The stem allows the liquid to stay unaffected from the warmth of your hand. 

Making springtime cocktails is easy

The spring season is on and who cares if the first day of spring saw a stormy weather. Spring is short lived, the sunlight appears mid-day and all of the snow-covered mountains reveal their greens in a few days. So I assume the start of spring would certainly be a fantastic day to indulge in a few best cocktails to celebrate the onset of springtime and the end of the cold winters. Loaded with the bountiful winter season citrus delight, incorporated with a lightness that is synonymous with warmer summers, this cocktail seemed an excellent choice to bid adieu to the gorgeous Delhi winter season.

This recipe comes from a few ‘best cocktails’ and guide to drinks that incorporates the use of in-season elements to derive the best of blends of traditional drinks with a twist with some of your very own original creation making entry as well. You can create a guide of cocktail recipes organized by season and refer to it each time the weather shifts.

One point I admired was that making these cocktails would certainly not hurt your budget. I cannot tell you how many cocktails I’d make with their lengthy list of unique ingredients, but the experience was worth it. When on vacation I had this wonderful Sugary Citrus Fizz cocktail at what I term is one of the best restaurants in Bangalore which made an entry in my guide book.

While this drink might be apt for the winter season, I found it perfect for our very first day of springtime. So grab some limes and oranges and celebrate with me.

For the Lemon Brulee Garnish I use a lemon slice and turbinado sugar and for the drink, 2 ounces gin, juice of 2 limes, juice of an orange, juiced of half a lemon, an ounce of any type of orange liqueur, an egg white (optional), a teaspoon of powdered sugar and 4 ounces of chilled soda water.

To make it, place the lemon slices in between layers of paper towel and delicately squeeze to take out as much juice as feasible. Place a piece of aluminium foil on a biscuit sheet; lay the lime piece on the foil and cover with the turbinado sugar. Broil momentarily until the sugar starts to brown. Turn the slice over, broil the other side and remove from the oven. Place it on waxed paper and allow it to cool down.

To Make the Cocktail, place all cocktail components except the soda water in a jar filled with ice cubes. Shake for about two to three minutes until the egg white foams into a soft meringue. Strain into a glass loaded with ice and round off with chilled soda. Layer the scooped foam from the shaker over the cocktail and finish it with a lemon ring garnish.