Live the Naga life at Dzukou Tribal Kitchen

Posted by jesuslewis on August 5th, 2017

Live the Naga life at Dzukou Tribal Kitchen

For a slice of India’s rugged northeast, walk up three floors in Hauz Khas Market. At Dzukou Tribal Kitchen (dzukoutribalkitchen.com) copious amounts of traditional rice beer wash down tangy curries, sticky rice and spicy relish from India’s least explored quarter. For adventurous palates, they serve raja mirchi chutney, rated high on the Scoville chilli scale, but the Nagaland style ribs are arguably the showstopper. The interior is kitted out in unpretentious wood, bamboo and brick, and upbeat live bands add evening ambience.
Comfort food at Rustom’s Parsi Bhonu Cafe

Antique furniture, grandfather clocks, sepia photos and foot-tapping music from the 70s: Rustom’s (rustoms.com) feels like stepping into a dignified Parsi home, and the menu draws on generations of Parsi family recipes. Delhi’s tiny Zoroastrian community has a gargantuan appetite for rich mutton stews – come for dhansak (hot and sour curry with lentils) and salli boti (lamb stew with apricots), spiced scrambled eggs and vegetable pulao rice. After sipping on a raspberry soda and tapping your foot to Miles Davis, you can pop down the road to the nearby Qutb Minar, Delhi’s most impressive archaeological heirloom.

Lebanese bites at Zizo

It’s all about nostalgia at this cheery restaurant in bustling Connaught Place, named for a tiny green beetle that the owner kept as a childhood pet. The kitchen at Zizo (zizo.in) is helmed by a Lebanese chef, ensuring that the batata harra (spice potatoes), man’oushe (spiced flatbread), lamb kibbeh (meatballs) and kanufa (sweet pastries) are as authentic as they come. The owner’s playful attitude extends to the décor: Arabic but modern, with half a mule emerging from the wall in the bar upstairs.

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