They reflect a culinary world that is increasingly dynamic, diverse, and attuned to the needs and preferences of a global audience.
We talk to Culinary Heads and leading chefs to understand the key trends and their comfort food in winters.
Food Trends this
Season Chef Jerson Fernandes, Director of Culinary, Novotel Mumbai Juhu Beach
The current winter food trends reflect a diverse and innovative culinary landscape, catering to evolving consumer tastes and environmental concerns. These trends include:
Comfort Foods with a Twist: Traditional comfort dishes are being reinvented with unique and unexpected flavours. This trend sees classic recipes infused with new ingredients, offering a novel twist while maintaining the familiar warmth and heartiness
Plant-Based and Vegetarian Offerings: With a growing emphasis on health and sustainability, there's an increased demand for plant-based and vegetarian options. Winter menus are incorporating seasonal vegetables and plant proteins in creative and satisfying ways.
Winter Superfoods: Chefs and consumers are focusing on the nutritional benefits of winter superfoods like kale, Brussels sprouts, pomegranates, and citrus fruits. These ingredients not only offer health benefits but also add vibrant flavours to winter dishes.
Global Flavours and Spices: There's a significant trend towards incorporating global flavours, particularly from Middle Eastern, Indian, and Southeast Asian cuisines. These cuisines are known for their rich spices and herbs, bringing warmth and depth to winter meals.
Hot Beverages with Unique Infusions: Moving beyond traditional hot chocolates and mulled wines, the trend is towards hot beverages with unique flavour infusions. These include herbal blends and exotic spice combinations, offering both comfort and a sensory exploration.
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Enhancing the Appeal
It is being widely believed that people eat with their eyes first. Unlike most popular notions, this actually may be true! We know for sure that if a dish is not appealing to eyes, in many cases it would not induce us to partake that dish. This makes food plating and presentation a crucial aspect of the food service industry, especially in this age of increasing numbers of discerning consumers in the industry.
Future of Dining
In an era dominated by technology, cutting-edge innovations are often perceived as exclusive luxuries.
Gracing Dining Service
Cutlery is an inseparable part of food service and going for a simple and sober set up is the best way of going about it, in sync with the existing trend.
Growing Veganism
In 1970 after the white revolution in India, dairy became the integral part of Indian cuisine. Indians consumes milk in various forms like milk, paneer, curd, buttermilk, butter, ghee, processed cheese, milk powder etc.
The Fruit as Vegetable
There is some long-standing confusion regarding classifying tomato as a fruit or a vegetable. Tomato is commonly treated in culinary terms as a vegetable, but botanically it is a fruit.
Winter Menu Trends
The current winter food trends are characterized by a blend of innovation, health consciousness, global influence, and environmental responsibility.
The Rising QSR Industry
The Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) industry in the country, and also across the globe, is expanding on a massive scale.
A Drink That Always Regales ...Cocktails
The popularity as well as the craving and desire for cocktails, as compared to other alcoholic drinks, globally, not merely in summer but throughout the year - including winter is undiminishing. Temperatures do not matter.
Niro - Bangalore's Newest Spot
Satiating the ever-growing appetite for vibrant nightlife and memorable experiences, Niro, Bengaluru's newest rooftop bar, unveils an urban rooftop oasis atop the Country Inn and Suites Hotel alongside Nagavara Lake. Boasting a panoramic water view and impeccable service of mouth watering flavours and cocktails, this all-day bar is a much-needed addition to enjoy the city's famed weather within this urban landscape.
Hard Rock Cafe Strikes a Chord
Hard Rock Cafe, the iconic venue which offers a combination of music, entertainment, memorabilia and authenticity is now back in Pune at Amanora Mall, Hadapsar.