Getting the Accent Right

With a new chef at the table, and a new tasting menu on the cards, Indian Accent is at an interesting inflection point.

- Chumki Bharadwaj

Much feted as the pioneer of progressive Indian food, Indian Accent has valiantly survived—and lived to tell the tale—the ill-fated fusion-confusion phase, where an alarming number of restaurants were churning out, but flailing in their attempts to offer 'Indian-fusion' food. Sixteen years after chef Manish Mehrotra made Indian Accent the leitmotif of the leafy suburb of Friend's Colony, a new Mehrotra is at the helm of affairs at this legendary restaurant.