Mughlai cuisine you can't miss!

somnath

(We continue our reader-driven series on great restaurants and eating places across the country.

Soumyanshu Bhattacharya's dream is to one day have enough money to sample cuisines from across the world. He recommends the Marble Room in Kolkota for good Mughlai cuisine.)

Though I was born, brought up, taught and professionally crafted in the holy city of foods, I almost missed Marble Room, a place I initially grudgingly visited with a friend when I was a student at IIM-Calcutta.

I was supposed to treat him with the meagre money I was earning as a summer intern at Price Waterhouse Coopers. As it is, I am a food connoisseur, or so I like to think, and was spending all my money on sampling expensive food options around the city. The prospect of spending some of this money on a treat was not a soothing idea (selfish, I admit, but everything is fair in food and war).

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Somnath good food is worth all the money & time so I think you are on the right path. There may be some misguided persons who will try to misguide you like an economist trying to show you doom's day or a batch of dyspeptic people talking of calories & cholestorel, just shun their company & you will live well here after.

somnath

Tucked away in the Tibetan colony next to NID in Ahmedabad, AMDOS is a small one-room home converted into a restaurant.

Actually, you can't really call it a restaurant. On the other hand, it's not a shack either.

On the walls, you have pictures of the Dalai Lama for spiritual enlightenment and picturesque landscapes of Tibet for visual relief. There are no chairs or tables; you are expected to sit on a cushion with your legs crossed, just like monks would do in a Tibetian monastery.

You also have a filthy looking cook, the sort of guy you wouldn't want to give a second look. But, after you sample his incredible meals, you will fall in love with him and his perennial, radiant smile displaying paan-stained teeth..........

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