With so many specialised eating joints mushrooming up in the city, do we actually need food festivals?
We definitely do not need calendar-marked days to celebrate an occasion. Or, do we? The first option fits the bill. And talking about celebrations, a new kind of festival has caught our fancy. Though it is yet to be adopted by the government in the list of gazette holidays, it is a moving towards being a sought after thing in at least the tri-city. Any guesses? Well, it is food festivals. Who could have guessed it! Whether it is about celebrating the sinful aroma of biryani’s from Hyderabad or tantalising flavours of colourful summer chillers or the so spicy palate pleasure of the Chinese meals, or the healthy gourmet delights laid tastefully for the guests, food festivals are catching fancy of city folks. On second thought, for a country that lives to eat, do we need a food festival to get hooked to a particular genre of food? We dig into to find out the hit or miss of the food festivals. Food festivals at Hotel Mountview (left) and CII “Everyone gets bored of eating the same food on
