Worth your salt

Your taste buds need these four new restaurants and menus around the country!

- Stuti Agarwal

The last year has been a grand celebration of food. There were restaurants popping up every week, everywhere, and very few cuisines were left untapped. In the midst of the noise, or rather the palate exhaustion, we thought we’d give you the easy four that you might want to step out, or even get on that flight, for.

BANNG, DELHI-NCR

The first restaurant on home soil from Mumbai-bred, Bangkokbased, two Michelin star chef Garima Arora. How could this one not be on the list! We hear Arora travelled to Chiang Mai [Thailand] with her head chef Manav Khanna to learn from a Thai culinary master for this one. “Do not expect pad thai on this menu,” says Chef Arora as she introduces the restaurant on Instagram, signalling that this one isn’t going to be the plain old Thai favourites. What it is is a fun play on all the staples with a little Indian spin—think spring rolls inspired by the signature Bangkok 7/11 toastie, a tom kha pani puri, som tum pappadom, DIY Noodz, and, strangely, ham n’ cheese cigar roll.