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A non-IT professional in IT industry but Test match cricket and food is what most of my waking hours are spent on (and sleeping hours if you factor in dreams and nightmares), making Nevile Cardus and Jeffrey Steingarten more fun for me than the latest bestseller. Here I will try to share experiences from my journeys, many of which are planned around food. It isn't an experts critique of a restaurant or a cuisine, just the diary of a curious observer. Siddhartha (Singh)Copyright
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Category Archives: Europe
Chocolate Cakes, Coffee and Vienna – How Irresistible?
As I walk across Donaukanal (Danube Canal) and towards the beautiful St. Stephen’s Cathedral, I start wondering if there are any ugly buildings in this city. I am unable to find any, and giving a miss to a Starbucks doing brisk business, I reach Hotel Sacher. I am lucky to get a table by the window [...]
Paella on the beach and sweets in a convent – Spanish Food Yatra (2)
For this second part of the Spanish Food Yatra, I would cover my experiences across Andalucia. Essentially three cities/towns – Seville and Granada from Moorish Spain and Nerja on Costa del Sol. Tapas bar hopping (Ir de tapas in Spanish) deserves a dedicated post so I will leave out tapas bars of Seville here. Breakfast [...]
Beyond Tapas – Spain Food Yatra (1)
Traveling through some of the cities and towns of Spain, I had a chance to eat at places wide and varied – with origins from 14th century to 21st century; 10 Euros for a couple to almost 100; a hole in a wall outlet to being served by tuxedoed waiters – an interesting experience for [...]
The Andalucia Tapas Trail
Tapa is a small lid on the top of a drink. The bartender would traditionally place something complimentary, like olives or fried seafood (mariscoes), on top of it. This is the story about the origin of tapas that I knew until I read the entry on Wikipedia. It suggests so many possible alternatives that instead [...]
The Central Coffeehouses
When an article in The Guardian couple of years back said that the homogeneity of modern coffeehouses is stifling their traditional role as places of sedition, it was the writer’s take on the conflict between convenience and culture (or maybe the culture of convenience). This is a change with a global footprint – Starbucks in [...]