By Sourish Bhattacharyya
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| Shanghai Club has opened at the ITC WelcomHotel, Dwarka |
AFTER the successful opening of the
notches-above-the-rest kebabs and curries restaurant, K&K, at the ITC WelcomHotel Dwarka, it’s the turn
of Shanghai Club — and it will be
different from the original at the ITC Grand Central at Lower Parel, Mumbai, in
one important respect. It will also serve sushi and sashimi prepared by a
gifted young chef who, the Indian Restaurant Spy has learnt, has migrated from
Wasabi by Morimoto at The Taj Mahal Hotel, Mansingh Road, New Delhi.
That’s the second big ‘transfer’, to
use Premiership League football lingo, from Wasabi — the first being the
extremely talented Vikramjit Roy,
who has catapulted the Pan Asian at the ITC
Grand Chola, Chennai, to TripAdvisor’s No. 1 (out of 675 restaurants in
Chennai). It has an overall rating of 4.5/5. Now, that’s a headline-making coup
for a newbie in a city dominated by established heavy hitters, from the ITC’s very
own Dakshin and Raintree to Annalakshmi and Hip Asia.
Coming back to Shanghai Club, I am told
that the restaurant will serve good, old-fashioned Chinese food. Are we, then,
going to see the return of the glory days of Bali Hi, which under Master Chef
Liang used to rock the rooftop of the ITC Maurya? Your hard-working spy will have
the inside story soon.
The big anticipated opening at the
Dwarka hotel, though, is Ghungroo,
which is set to return with a music menu being put together by the man
synonymous with the nightclub — Sunny Sarid.
With the Dwarka Vivanta by Taj, which has been placed under the charge of Anil Malhotra, who was till recently the
general manager of Taj Chandigarh, on the road to completion in the next eight
months, the ITC WelcomHotel is seriously turning on the heat. But before you
bring out your dancing shoes, check out the Shanghai Club.
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