Mistress of Spices

Things just got more spicy at The Imperial, New Delhi, as the hotel launched an all-new menu for its famed restaurant The Spice Route-the first such endeavour in the past 27 years.

- CHUMKI BHARADWAJ

Gourmet dining is a transformational experience. It’s not just about taste and textures, and fuss and flavours, but recreating a sense of time and space. That’s precisely why a restaurant like The Spice Route makes it to iconic status. However, the problem with icons is that it’s tough to best, and nigh impossible to institute change. It makes purists pout, disappoints fans and you run the risk of overreaching. So when The Spice Route unveiled an all-new menu, it did raise some eyebrows, especially since this for the first time in 27 years that the Imperial has endeavoured any kind of revamp.