What: The Hot Box - post music gig food truck, call 9930991881, launching today at a gig near you, Rs 150 for a Japanese inspired hot dog, Rs 150 for three chocolate chip cookies.

Why: Scenester Tavish Bhasin has been to more gigs than he can count on his fingers and toes and the hair on his head,  but has always had the same issue at all of them. “The post-scene in Bombay for late night food is canned man,” he says. Tavish, who used to run an Asian takeaway food service, The Flying Noodle for a year and a half from his terrace in Dadar, is all set to launch The Hot Box tonight. This is a food truck (run out of his gold Esteem) that will sell gourmet treats outside music venues after the show is over. You'll find him tonight, June 14, outside Sitara Studio in Dadar (post their Kaboom gig featuring Bay Beat Collective & others) where he will be serving Japanese style dogs with soy, wasabi and dill pickles, along with oatmeal /chocolate chip cookies.  
When: Late night boot call launches tonight, June 14.

***This post is sponsored by Moveable Feast***


What: Party catering services from Moveable Feast, call Shradha on +91 99200 20104, visit www.moveablefeast.net or view the Facebook page here (www.facebook.com/MoveableFeastCatering), start at Rs 800 per person.

Why: It rained and all the glamorous people took cover under one roof. It's how the first dinner party came into being. Fiction or not, the rains are a fact and if you plan to move the party to your living room,  call Moveable Feast, a bespoke catering service run by chef and restaurateur Rahul Akerkar, the man behind Indigo, Neel and Indigo Deli. Besides being able to provide pretty much any kind of cuisine, they also do lesser known services like gourmet dabbas for when you're getting on the ferry, sommeliers for food and alcohol pairing, monsoon farmhouse catering, meat carving stations and  more. See full list here. 

When: You want to venture down Cater Road.  


***This post is sponsored by Moveable Feast***

***This post is sponsored by Moveable Feast***

It rained and all the glamorous people took cover under one roof. It's how the first dinner party came into being. Fiction or not, the rains are a fact and if you plan to move the party to your living room, you may as well have pretty food to match your pretty people.  Enter Moveable Feast, a bespoke catering service run by chef and restaurateur Rahul Akerkar, the man behind Indigo, Neel and Indigo Deli in Mumbai. They customise menus depending on your need and the kind of cuisine you're looking for (Indian, Pan Asian, American, European, Continental) and also bring along Western grills, meat carving stations and tapas counters. 

Now besides catering for private sit-down dinners and larger events - they've done IPL dinners, the Christian Louboutin launch - Moveable Feast also offers a whole range of fun services you didn't know about. Find your name tag and take a seat at the table. We'll tell you all about it. Don't forget to notice the lily centrepiece.  

Gourmet Dabbas: Moveable Feast provides gourmet dabba services for travel agents that have to be sent to and picked up from their kitchen at Reay Road. These are then filled with gourmet food that in the past have travelled to The Gateway of India for groups of  international tourists and have gone aboard yacht parties as well. The minimum requirement is 20, so get some people in your office together and it could be your daily dabba too!   

Provide Sommeliers: If you want to pair your dinner with alcohol and have a sommelier run your guests through the pairings, Moveable Feast can arrange that for you. What single malt goes best with Kashmiri apple curry? They even paired food with people's personalities at a lunch for Forest Essentials!

Vintage Tea Parties: Keep your friends on a tight quiche by hosting a vintage tea party featuring pies, scones, finger sandwiches, tea cakes and more. Don't forget to wear your pearls. They're also available next Sunday for an awesome boozy brunch! 

Monsoon Farmhouse Parties: If you have a farmhouse (you lucky so and so), they have the ability to get the food to you. Any place in and around Bombay like Alibaug, Lonavala, Panvel, Karjat  are on Moveable Feast's map. For a minimum of 25 people. 

Point To A Place on The Map & They'll Do the Food: After hosting dinners for consulates (Swiss, Netherlands, Egyptian) in India that are home sick for their local cuisine,  Moveable Feast can pretty much make any kind of food you like, from anywhere in the world. 

Theme Parties: Appetisers shaped like severed fingers and Goth inspired desserts were created especially for a Halloween party. Menus can be crafted for your theme too, whether it's a Mad Men office party or a Great Gatsby soiree. Daisy Bu-canon!  

Getting there: Moveable Feast, call Shradha on +91 99200 20104 or 43490000, visit www.moveablefeast.net or view the Facebook page, here (www.facebook.com/MoveableFeastCatering), prices start at Rs 800 per person.

***This post is sponsored by Moveable Feast***

Packs and Recreational Drugs

What's this we hear? You're using again! If you must return to substance abuse, swap your creepy old syringe out for this one - a big plastic injection that's filled with a shot of chocolate and wrapped with a bright red bow. Tipped off by Impresario's Food Director Sid Mathur (@Shhh_Ingredient) on Twitter, we found these newly introduced desserts at Country of Origin (Napeansea Road and Juhu) last evening. Now reader, it won't be the best shot of chocolate you've had - it's rich and tasty but slightly powdery - but it will certainly be the most fun. Push the chocolate out of the syringe and into a coffee cup, ice cream bowl, glass of Bailey's, your lover's mouth.

We recommend that you keep them in a bowl at your party and let your guests do as they please (we can think of some after-party favours) or make an injection bouquet for a sick friend, like we did yesterday. Needle-less to say, it will be the talking point in any setting.

Getting there: Liquid chocolate shots at Country of Origin, 69/A, Maneesha Building, Napeansea Road, call 23683261; Sun-n-Sand Hotel, shop no 1, Lobby, 39 Juhu Beach, Juhu, call 26244422, Rs 210 each.

Considering the amount of time we've been spending in rainy Goa lately - you'll find out why, soon enough - with its verdure and where-is-it-prettier-right-now feel, a juice bar named Mango Forest made us think of a lush landscape with even lusher liquids.

With these emerald green coloured hopes we went to Oshiwara's new juice and milkshake place. Now Mango Forest may not be filled with foliage but there's a park nearby and being Bombay folk, we'll settle for that.

Clockwork Orange Juice

The space at this beverage bar is simple but pretty, with wooden benches outside and a clean counter on the inside. The menu here features the usual fruit juice solos, duets, trios and quartets, along with milkshakes and a few sandwiches.Now we're not sure that the monsoon is the best time to recommend a juice place, but the week old Mango Forest looked pretty hygienic.  We started with apple-carrot-beet juice, a concoction (served in a huge glass) that tasted like it was all carrot and slightly bitter despite the addition of sugar. The orange juice was fresh, but not bursting with life and colour.

 Probably a better bet is the mango milkshake, a tall glass of thick, pulpy fruit shake, the kind your mom makes at home - not heavily accessorised with flavour twists or garnishes but still yum.In the food department, we suggest you avoid the vegetable grilled sandwich, with beets and onions, capsicum and tomatoes, it wasn't much different than having a street side sandwich, and came with no bread or topping options. Other choices on the menu include a larger version of the same sandwich.

Situated in close proximity to a park and starlets, Mango Forest could either become an after jog cafe, or another TV star hangout.  Either way, it's nothing you haven't seen in Andheri before.

Getting there: Mango Forest, Raheja Windermere, Oshiwara, Andheri (W) 7208409015/9870406210.Apple-Beet-Carrot Juice: Rs 150, Home Delivery to begin soon.

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What: bpb and Olive Bar & Kitchen’s Brunch Class at Olive, Union Park, Khar (W), to sign up email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or call 09867885533, Rs 1,500 with sangria.

Why: A bread basket and a bottle of gin – is that all you had at the table the last time you hosted brunch at home? Learn how to put together a splendid weekend spread from the restaurant that really started off the brunch trend in Bombay. At this interactive culinary class (two people to a work station), chef Thomas Zacharias will teach you how to make a bunch of treats off Olive's Saturday Brunch menu, including Grilled Eggplant and Walnut Roulade; Balsamic Pickled Mushrooms; Pollo Polpetto; Bacon Wrapped Pineapple and red wine sangria. Plus, if you stay back for Saturday Brunch, you get 10% off your bill!

When: Saturday, June 15, 11.30 am to 1.30 pm.

What: The Birdsong - organic deli & café, Waroda Road, behind American Express Bakery, right after Jude Bakery, Bandra (W).

Why: Look away from your Twitter feed for just a second folks for there’s a new Birdsong in town. Set to launch next week (we’ll keep you posted), this is Bandra’s pretty new organic deli and café run by Jenifer Mallick, the person behind the delicious Electra organic bakery and business associate Ashish Madan, in consultation with nutritionist Kavita Mukhi, founder of the city’s Farmers’ Market. Here you can expect 100% organic goodies like sandwiches, pies, quiche and desserts like carrot cake and banana bread.

When: Chirp off the old block, set to launch next week

Postcard from Greece: The sea is so blue. So am I, without you.

Instagram feed-flooded by a friend's May holiday to Greece, this writer has been craving stark white villas, Santorini waters and gyro for a month now.  Naturally, when last week's snooping led to Greko, a soon-to-launch Greek takeaway food joint,  we felt like our wishing and hoping and craving could have something to do with this Bandra culinary street's newest entrant. It's like we willed it to happen. Full Plato?

Officially launched last evening ( they did a soft launch on Friday), Greko is a brightly lit, clean Greek takeaway shop with cool blue and green interiors that promises to “Takeaway hunger”. Behind the counter with fresh veggies, pickles, hummus and sauces that are stocked in large supply, you'll also find the owners, who are currently doing everything themselves, from  asking you what you want to preparing and packing the food.

Gordon Greko

The menu here at Greko features gyros, salads, mains and sides. We ordered the Gyro Chicken Caesar (a roasted meat dish commonly served in a sandwich), a beef moussaka (an oven-baked layered dish with minced meat and eggplant casserole, topped with cheese/savoury custard), the hummus and pita bread and  Greek fries to go.

There’s a startlingly handsome man in a Delhi speakeasy, who makes a whisky sour with orange that can turn any girl to liquid. Now we may not have met that man on Saturday, but we came close to finding that drink at The White Owl, a new brewery and bar at Lower Parel.

It’s called the Biddy, and it’s made with whisky and egg white, triple sec and chunks of oranges and it’s the thing about The White Owl that will set your heart aflutter.

Shadow Birds

Situated at One India Bulls Center, The White Owl at first glance, is a slightly fancier version of the typical pub below the office. It has the advantage of space, with a huge industrial looking brewery section that of course, hasn’t acquired its licenses yet. Designed by Obataimu Design Studio, The White Owl is a mix of cool and clichés with empty cages and tyres, a wheel chair that warns of drunken driving and pretty bubble lights. It was only day two when we visited so the place wasn’t packed, but those who were present seemed to be having a good time, their chatter sometimes rising over fun electro pop and swing-ish music.

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The drinks here, we found, after ordering several rounds, come in random assorted glasses, which is a fun touch. First came the abovementioned Biddy, setting a standard that a few others failed to live up to. The red wine sangria, in an adorable short tumbler and packed with fruit is also a good option if you’re looking for something light. The Socialista on the other hand, a pomegranate, mint and vodka cocktail seemed like a watered down version of what it should have been. The Spike too, featuring fresh juice of the day (watermelon and basil) with the bartender’s choice of alcohol (rum), didn’t warrant a repeat, as it featured non-sweet juice that made the overall drink taste of nothing but rum.  There’s also a beer list that features the usual Indian and imported suspects, until they get permission to start brewing their own.

What: Grecko, ground floor, Gagangiri Building, Carter Road, Bandra (W).

Why: This new Greek food takeaway joint soft launches today and officially opens on May 31st with moussaka, Greek salad, watermelon and feta, spanakopita and more. On a recce we spotted a distressed wood counter the colour of the Santorini sea, a chef just in from Australia and a basement kitchen that we hope will deliver.

When:Opens May 31. Brings friends, romaines and countrymen!