Cuisines, Countries, and Cultures

CITIES IN INDIA are seeing a flood of new restaurants offering very diverse cuisines, including global food. This new globalisation is not limited to the metros, but is visible even in smaller cities across the country.

- Kiran Karnik

New restaurants, with a fair proportion offering cuisine from various countries, now compete with beauty parlours and jewellers for space – and popularity – in many places.

In days gone by, international cuisine meant “Chinese” food: in quotes because at least some of it was India-innovated dishes and reaching spice-levels of Kolhapuri mutton curry. Dishes like