Celebrate the Indian Cuisine with Taste-Indian Food Festival

Laukik creations has organized Taste-Indian Food Festival in Pune from 21-23 April 2017 at Krishna Sunder Gardens from 9 am -11pm. 

The festival will treat the foodies with cuisines from different parts of India. This includes more than 200 variety of dishes both home cooked and from well known Restaurants. The dishes would include Maharashtrain food including Kolhapuri and  Malwani , Modak , Puran Poli , Parathe, Momos , Punjabi Kulcha  Appam,  Dal Bati , Bihari Litti Chokha and many other . The festival will also feature handmade glass works .

Aspri Spirits launched the Most Awarded Single Malt – Glen Grant 10YR and 18YR

Aspri Spirits, leading importers and distributors of some of the finest brands in the world of Wines and Spirits launched the most acclaimed and awarded Single Malt Glen Grant 10 Y and Glen Grant 18 Y with an exclusive evening for Media, Bloggers, Influencers, Socialites and Key Trade Partners at Miami, JW Marriott.

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The evening commenced with an exclusive masterclass by Mr. Robin Coupar, Global Brand Ambassador Gruppo Campari.

Mr. Robin Coupar dressed in his traditional Scottish Kilt took the audience through a detailed presentation encompassing the history and heritage of the brand followed by unveiling the 10 Y and 18Y Glen Grant Single Malt Whisky followed by the sit down tasting session.

GlenGrant 10 YR OLD

For the last five years, the 10 Year Old has won the ‘Best Single Malt Scotch Whisky: 10 Years and Younger’ category award in Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible. This is the only single malt Scotch whisky to win this prestigious award for five consecutive years.

In addition to this, in 2016 the 10 Year Old also took home the guide’s top honor for single malts by winning overall Single Malt of the Year (Multiple Casks).

Colour: Rich Bright Gold

Aroma: Sweet pastry, pear and vanilla

Taste:    Orchard fruits with rich malt notes and nuttiness

Finish:   Long and complex

GlenGrant 18 YR OLD

Winner of “Scotch Whisky of the Year 2017”, “Single Malt of the Year 2017” and “Best Single Malt Aged 16-21 Year 2017” awards by Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible 2017.

Colour: Bright Gold

Aroma: Rich and floral with oaky overtones and hints of baking spices

Taste:    Malty caramel, delicate, dried raisins and vanilla

Finish:   Long, sweet with hints of nuts and spice

ABOUT GLEN GRANT

Glen Grant’s story began in 1840, in Rothes, Speyside – Scotland’s premier region for whisky production; by brothers John and James Grant. Still produced in Rothes today, Glen grant holds a range of prestigious industry awards, and is world renowned for its consistent quality across its aged variants.

The elegant and seductively smooth taste for which Glen Grant is famous, is the result of the innovative tall slender stills and revolutionary purifiers that James 'The Major' Grant, son of founder James Grant, introduced over a century ago. Still used to this day, this lasting legacy continues to distinguish the brand.

Today, Dennis Malcolm, the multi-award winning Glen Grant Master Distiller, directs and presides over the amber liquid. Born in the grounds of Glen Grant in 1946, he has worked for Glen Grant for over five decades, with an uncommon passion and unrivalled knowledge of the industry. Dennis’ unmatched Scotch whisky experience ensures that every expression in the Glen Grant range makes the absolute best of the complex alchemy of spirit, wood and time.

The complete Glen Grant range includes the refined The Major's Reserve, 5 Year Old, 10 Year Old, 12 Year Old, 12 Year Old Non Chill-Filtered, 18 Year Old and a selection of limited edition bottles; each with their own distinct flavour and aroma that perfectly captures the spirit of Glen Grant’s heartland.

Glen Grant became part of the Gruppo Campari portfolio in 2006. The ABV of each Glen Grant single malt Scotch whisky differs between each expression and consumers are encouraged to always drink responsibly.

 

Robin Coupar

ABOUT GRUPPO CAMPARI

Gruppo Campari is a major player in the global spirits industry, with a portfolio of over 50 premium and super premium brands, spreading across Global, Regional and Local priorities. Global Priorities, the Group’s key focus, include Aperol, Appleton Estate, Campari, SKYY, Wild Turkey and Grand Marnier. The Group was founded in 1860 and today is the sixth-largest player worldwide in the premium spirits industry. It has a global distribution reach, trading in over 190 nations around the world with leading positions in Europe and the Americas. The Group’s growth strategy aims to combine organic growth through strong brand building and external growth via selective acquisitions of brands and businesses.

Headquartered in Milan, Italy, Campari owns 18 plants and 4 wineries worldwide and has its own distribution network in 19 countries. The Group employs approximately 4,000 people. The shares of the parent company Davide Campari-Milano S.p.A. (Reuters CPRI.MI - Bloomberg CPR IM) have been listed on the Italian Stock Exchange since 2001.

About ASPRI

Aspri Spirits Pvt. Ltd. was established in 2004. The company today represents some of the finest brands in the world of Wines and Spirits and is one of the leading players in the imported alcoholic beverage segment. The company with its commitment to ensure highest quality standards focuses on the sales, marketing and distribution of its diverse portfolio and is dedicated to building premium international brands in travel retail and domestic markets across South Asia.

Hauskhaas offers authentic Indian food at home in its first online Indian Regional Thali Festival

Pune based online food aggregator Hauskhaas हौस खास (www.hauskhaas.com) has brought the  first online ‘Indian Regional Thali festival'.
The festival consists of  curated thalis from Kashmir in the North (with dishes like Chaman Kaliya and Kashmiri Dum Aloo eaten with walnut chutney) to Kerala in the South (coconut based stews, Iddiappams and Egg roast), from Gujarat in the West (with dishes like Theplas and Kadhi and Dal Dhokri) to Bengal in the East (here you get to taste the heavily mustard oil flavoured dishes like Dohi macch and Aloo Poshta).
In addition, homechefs from Sindh and Maharashtra including the state's coastal Malvan region are ready to serve you with local delicacies . The festival will be on till 4 December 2016

Sharmila Bhide, founder of HausKhaas says: “hauskhaas.com  is an online portal that brings exotic and homemade food to people at their doorsteps. Our key USP is that we curate dishes and menus that are one-of-a-kind. Ones that will rarely find their way to restaurant menus. They will always be made fresh and only after you place an order. This guarantees you fresh, homemade and different food every time. Since January of this year, we have been working with genuine, hand-picked homechefs, who specialize in the cuisines they grew up with. The diversity of the cuisines of India is amazing and we thought of curating a “thali” that will give Pune foodies a peep into how each of these regional cuisines are played out at a typical dinner table”.
For  more details call us on +91-9168625782 or email us at reachus@hauskhaas.com. 

Nuts, Raisins at Pune's The Westin

Pune's premier business hotel The Westin, well-known to turn out something interesting every now and then, has announced a special event in which patrons can relish their inclination towards nutty affairs. Between 7 and 30 November customers can visit The Westin's vibrant restaurant Daily Treats to indulge in the “nutty” flavors.
The Westin says customers can tease their palate to an exclusive selection of goodies topped with Nuts & Raisins and experience divine indulgence during the course of the event.

Where:The Westin Pune Koregaon Park,36/3-B, Koregaon Park Annexe, Mundhwa Road, Ghorpadi, Pune, 411001
When:7 – 30 November 2016 | 10 AM – 10 PM
Contact – 020 -6721-0000

Café Coffee Day launches home delivery in Mumbai & Pune with a special 50% discount offer

CCD Cappuccino

After experiencing remarkable success in Bangalore, India’s largest retail café chain, Café Coffee Day (CCD) has launched home delivery service for every foodie, coffee fanatic, beverage lover and office goer in Mumbai and Pune. CCD has curated a special menu which presents a range of appetizing offerings with all-day appeal from light snacks to heavy meals, desserts and of course
its popular hot and cold beverages. To add to the delight, CCD has introduced a special 50% discount for all home delivery orders till 31 st October, 2016. The café chain has partnered with Swiggy to take and deliver orders to customers.
Given the fast evolving home and workplace dynamics, rapid urbanization and traffic, today’s time pressed consumers are looking for good quality and hygienic bite and beverage options that can be delivered to them at their

Big Crunch Burger

doorstep. CCD’s home delivery presents itself as the perfect, trusted solution to deliver a range of delicious F&B offerings that fit into every consumer’s daily cycle and hunger patterns.
CCD’s home delivery menu has a dual appeal – it is a perfect balance of café type and restaurant like
meal options catering to different times and hunger needs of the day. Its sumptuous range of food
includes heavy meal options supported by light small bites and desserts. For a satiating meal, there are vegetarian and non-vegetarian Sandwiches, Burgers and Hot Dogs which will be assembled just before delivery. There is also the unique Tawa Pizza along with Biryani, Wraps and Rolls in vegetarian and non-vegetarian options. The Light bites lineup is equally exciting with Garlic Bread, Cheese croissant, Veg Samosa, Veg Cutlet and Chilli Cheese Toastizza.

Garlic Bread

And lastly, ordering desserts like pastries and full round cakes is now a click away to meet those sweet cravings.
CCD’s beverages ranging from Hot and Cold Coffees, Chocoholicas, Lemonades, Fruiteasers and Sip-n-snack Smoothies will be freshly prepared and delivered to consumers packaged to perfection.
Customers can now relish the same taste of the café’s much loved hot coffees and frappes at their
homes and offices too. The home delivery menu also caters to bulk packaging in beverages. For instance the ‘Home Delivery’ menu has the option of ordering in 700 ml of cold beverages like Cafe Frappe, Cold Cocoa Latte, Mango Peach Smoothie and Strawberry Pom Smoothie for that quick office get together or a chilled-out celebration at home with friends and family. For those in the group wishing to have tea can opt for 750 ml available on two variants of Teas. Customers can enjoy all this and more at the special 50% discount on offer at present.

Hazelnut Carrot Celebration Cake

To ensure an enjoyable experience of its offerings at one’s home or office, the brand has invested in
innovative packaging to create value added differentiation for its customers. It has taken meticulous
efforts to ensure that its food and coffees remain hot even after 30 – 40 minutes of opening the pack.
The food is wrapped in a butter paper and comes in attractively packed corrugated boxes. The design on these boxes tells a special story and revolves around characters that reflect people and their relationship with food. The coffee too is delivered in a double walled corrugated box that is high on convenience, portability and functionality. It cases a coffee flask with additional spillage support and ensures temperature retention until the order reaches destination.
Speaking on the launch of home delivery in Mumbai and Pune, Venu Madhav, CEO, Café Coffee Day said, “The great response for home delivery in Bangalore encouraged us to scale up and introduce this service to more markets. The consumer today has little time and wish for CCD type of F&B product mix attheir doorstep. We have an all-day order-in menu designed to suit the palate of every food and beverage lover to cater to different times and hunger moods of the day. We hope to see the same success in Mumbai and Pune as seen in Bangalore for home delivery.”
CCD has mapped over 45 cafes in Mumbai and around 30 cafés in Pune to deliver orders within a 3-4 km radius. Its customers will be able to place an order from a cafe that falls within their delivery radius.
Based on preparation times, the delivery executive would reach the cafe, collect the order and deliver to a customer. CCD has plans to increase the number of cafés from where orders can be delivered in due course.
Mumbai and Pune patrons can now order their favorite picks from the CCD menu and enjoy its range of offerings at their doorstep.

Puratos India showcases innovative solutions for the baked goods industry

Puratos, one of the world’s largest bakery, patisserie and chocolate ingredients producer, held its Innovation Day recently, showcasing various innovative solutions for the baked goods industry, with applications based on prevailing consumer trends.

The program also included live patisserie and bakery application demos by Chefs and had guest speakers from the baked goods industry.

Puratos is focused on being innovation partners to its clients who are majors in the food service industry, artisan bakeries, patissiers, chocolatiers, retailers and many more.

Puratos India is a 100% subsidiary of Puratos International – a global group with local subsidiaries in 63 countries, products manufactured in over 55 plants spread over 4 continents, and sold in over 100 countries.

Puratos helps customers in delivering nutritious, delicious food, leveraging new technologies and innovations in ingredients across countries.

Puratos has set up a 84000 sq. ft facility in Ranjangaon, Pune, incorporating new technologies not used in India yet.

Puratos also launched easy to use ingredients for the Indian market this year. For example, the ‘Deli Cheesecake mix’ [the first ever in India] - a ready to use egg free cheesecake mix that allows one to effortlessly produce a dessert that is otherwise quite challenging.

Puratos India’s product range includes:  

·Bakery - Bread improvers, flavours and sourdoughs, bread mixes.

.Patisserie - Cake mixes, Sponges, Ready to use cheesecake fruit and cream fillings, icings, fudges and ganaches, etc. 

·Chocolate product range - Real Belgian chocolate, compound chocolate and fillings.

Taste of Kerala at Senses, Marriott Suites Pune

Karimeen Pollichathu

Pune's Marriott Suites will hold a special food festival Taste of Kerala at its Multi-Cuisine Restaurant ‘Senses’ between Friday, 16 September to Sunday 25 September (7 pm to 11 pm).
‘Taste of Kerala’ will bring forth the culinary expertise of the region, and is sure to take the foodies on a gastronomical voyage from cuisines of God's own country.
The Malabar Coastal state of India, Kerala is a haven of tranquil backwaters, serene beaches, exotic wildlife, lush mountains and a home to a unique and colorful cuisine. With dishes like Puttu or Kadala Curry, Kerala is certainly a food-lover's paradise.

Keralapaalpayasam

Chef Tolien Varghese is coming to Pune straight from Kochi to explore the secrets of this traditional cuisine with its heartwarming dishes made in authentic hue and rich selection of ingredients, from the most loved cuisine of South India.
Chef Tolien said, “Kerala Cuisine is characterized by the use of coconut, chilies, curry leaves, mustard seeds, tamarind, asafetida and spices like black pepper, cloves, cinnamon. The cuisine has a multitude of both vegetarian and non-vegetarian dishes prepared by using poultry, meat and a thrilling variety of seafood.”
Kerala, a land of Spices has many exquisite dishes to offer. Chef Tolien will bring to foodies starters like Parippu wada, Ela ada in veg and Meen pollichathu or Kozhi kurumalugu in non-veg. A

Puttu

variety of Rasams ranging from Tomato, Prawns, Pepper, Parippu or Koszhi will also be prepared during this fest. Patrons can taste main courses like Kappa and fish curry, Karimeen Pollichathu, Kerla Paratha and Beef Fry, Mutton Masala or the most popular dish of the region Meen Moilee. Desserts such as Semiya Payasam, Ada Pradhaman, Carrot Payasam, Cherupayar Pradaman will also be available for the food lovers.

For reservation in advance please contact – Mr. Amitava Das : +91-9158990657