Each year 50 Best gives an award to a restaurant to watch (It is actually called “One To Watch “) at the annual 50 Best in Asia ceremony. This year, they said, the award would go to a restaurant “that ...

When it comes to Chinese food, Delhi has the single best Chinese restaurant in India: China Kitchen at the Hyatt Regency, where Chef Zhang (from Sichuan) keeps raising the bar. When it opened, China ...

Around the same time that Stalin was penning his attack on a “monolithic Hindi identity”, Amit Shah was in Chennai assuring the people of Tamil Nadu that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will ensure that ...

Have you seen The White Lotus, the hit HBO streaming show about a group of wealthy Americans at a luxury resort? It may be the most influential TV series in the history of hotels and hotel marketing ...

The Dubai Hakkasan has a Michelin star and the local outpost of the rapidly expanding Mott 32 chain has a certain glamorous cachet. But beyond that, the field is wide open so Mei Mei Mayfair should be ...

This Beer Biceps Guy saga gets worse and worse. I did a column about it last week and in any case, you probably know the story so far. But even so here is some background to refresh your memory.

Did the Tatas make a mistake in buying Air India? Does the steady stream of criticism levelled at the airline, normally from angry passengers who have suffered at its hands, reflect badly on the ...

It is a maxim that should be a cliché by now. But given the current Indian reality, it is worth repeating again and again: “The true test of a principle is when you apply it to somebody or something ...

Assume that you are a foreigner who knows very little about India. You suddenly find yourself in Kochi. Almost the first thing you will wonder is whether you are in a Christian city. The older parts ...