Where Exile Meets Flavour

In chaotic Delhi-NCR, a restaurant carries a lost people back to the warmth of their Kashmiri hearths

- By SUHAIL BHATT

Pooja stands silently in the corner of Matamaal, her fingers tracing the edge of a faded photograph on the wall. Her eyes glisten as the smell of saffron and walnuts drift through the air. "It feels like home," she says. This is no ordinary restaurant. It has a portal—a place where food, memory, and identity intertwined.