Got your UAE Covid vaccine? Get free food at 2 eateries
One-day offer will see 100 fully vaccinated people get free meals.
Two restaurants at a mall in Abu Dhabi will be offering free meals to customers who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19.
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Royal Orchid and Bombay Canteen will serve free food for up to Dh40, which is good enough for a main course. The one-day offer on Sunday, February 28, is on a first-come-first-serve basis and for the first 50 customers at each restaurant.
ALSO READ: We are taking a small step to encourage people who have supported the government s campaign and got themselves vaccinated. So, people who are fully vaccinated, i.e., those who have taken their second dose, will get food items up to Dh40 for free.
Chef Dhruv Oberoi has come up with recipes like an amla and strawberry salad and Nilgiri passionfruit cocktail. Photo credit: Dhruv Oberoi
Amla and strawberry salad, shankalu chaat, guava baked into immunity-boosting pizza bases, tadgola ceviche. Indians are rediscovering local, seasonal fruit like never before, with everyone from top chefs to home chefs and caterers using it in inventive ways.
For years, fruit lovers had decried the loss in local varieties as restaurants and homes embraced imported apples, oranges, kiwi et al that were available round the year. Seasonality and local diversity, two cornerstones of Indian farm produce seemed to be getting lost in the process. But post-pandemic, foreign fruit does not command as much a snob value as local desi varieties.
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We love the way the vegetable markets look during winters. The peas are sweeter, the berries shine brighter and the variety of winter greens that come to the fore are lusciously verdant, fresh and tender. This love for saags is reflected even on the menus of restaurants in India, that have at least one winter greens dish vying for our attention. Here’s our edit of some of the best leafy dishes on some of the coolest menus in the country.
Sarson & Makai at The Bombay Canteen
You can pick it up and eat it like a cute taco. The Bombay Canteen’s corn pancake has a dense bite and doesn’t taste like a plump chilla that it looks like. Instead, it has a fluffy pancake appeal that is topped with rustic sarson ka saag. They use four kinds of greens to make this topping: sarson or mustard greens, small-leaved bathua, basic spinach and radish greens. The recipe is levelled up with a coarse sambal made out of radishes and reduced corn juice that adds tremendously to create a
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According to YourStory Research, Indian startups raised a total disclosed funding of $8.4 billion between January 2020 and mid-November 2020 across 765 deals. This was a 30 percent decline compared to the funding in 2019. But, the overall investor sentiments remained positive. Investors YourStory spoke to believe that for the best founders out there, COVID-19 is just another opportunity to stand apart. In fact, they can’t wait to meet and invest in entrepreneurs who won the pandemic.
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The Bombay Canteen was awarded #1 on
Top Restaurant Awards 2018 by Conde Nast Traveller. After being closed to diners for the first nine months of the pandemic, the restaurant recently opened its doors to customers to enjoy their meals at the award-winning restaurant and bar.
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