Drunk on Petroleum

#Iwasinvited This was then round 2 of our collaboration with Radio One wherein we go to restaurants with their DJs, their support staff and happily enough, their professional level photographer. The presence of a professional level photographer with professional level equipment and professional level attitude meant that we were not needed to, play in ridiculous ways, with the zoom option of our phone cameras, in our sometimes exasperating efforts to get a serviceable photo. This meant that we could focus on more imaginative ways to stuff our faces while thinking of rather smart metaphors and hashtags to describe the food. #noteveryonewantstobeGujjarafterall The restaurant, Bombay Brassiere, we were supposed to visit was seeing its second coming in Pune and it was in the very plush, but almost jinxed, Nitesh Hub which, as per rumors, is a place where some mall dreams go to die. The earlier rendition of Bombay B (henceforth shortened to Bombay B because I’m super...

This review comes about as an invitation for a tasting by Radio One as part of their initiative to launch a coffee table book with reviews to some of the best restaurants in Pune. As part of this initiative they invite bloggers around the town for tastings at their partner restaurants with their RJs and support staff. It was thus, DOP’s pleasure to accompany MJ Tarun and Anjali from Radio One to Deccan Harvest, the multicuisine restaurant at Magarpatta. Amongst the first things that was noticed as we entered the restaurant is the truly brilliant ambience of the place which combined an all glass, double heighted ceiling design to provide perhaps one of the most airy feeling restaurants in all of Pune. Combine this further with the fact that the restaurant is placed smack dab in the middle of the greenest part of Magarpatta (which is otherwise as urban, IT dystopian and boring as you can get) makes this a place you should go to when you want to revel in the megalomaniac pleasure of hav...