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there are those who talk down to their readers and there are those who talk to their readers and then there’s me who talks at you good people. and this…3 MIN READ
i shopped from fantasy this cheery ramadan afternoon – i suspect i still have a long way to go before they give me free groceries. i’d be ok with beechworth…3 MIN READ
we find ourselves on this windless afternoon, just before ramadan, at d’olive, olive garden’s facelift in time for the blessed month. it’s still the same old place with its almost…4 MIN READ
it’s well past midnight now and i have just finished off some very demanding work – it’s got me wanting something familiar and comforting, something with a little heart and…3 MIN READ
it’s 4pm on a friday and man, i am absolutely mad with hunger. i woke up a couple of hours back, like any good dhivehi man, and lay in bed…3 MIN READ
just how well do we know pain? how keenly are we attuned to its vibrance? it’s an unwelcome and unavoidable fact of an aging glutton’s life. you see, last night…2 MIN READ
so here we are walking towards cafeier, hasanfulhu and me, walking as two men may on busy majeedhee magu, that is with extreme caution. as we pass ooredoo, i nearly…3 MIN READ
my choices are very clear. i do what i love at the risk of what i have, or i forego what i love to keep what i’ve got. and i…2 MIN READ
faathumaafulhu is in town and that means i’m getting treated. she is a generous one, at least in her own way. and what a way that is. once she took…3 MIN READ
moosaalhu and i walk towards sivas58, the new turkish place that’s opened up on ameer ahmed magu behind nasandhura. i’d seen their menu before – it’s quite spare but it…3 MIN READ
the easiest way to a man’s heart is through a hole in his chest. yes, something’s the matter with the spirit, and i don’t mean the geist. it may just…2 MIN READ
this dreary winter morn finds hasanbe and me foraging in villa mart. they have recently added new space at the back, it’s a great extension to an already fantastic grocery…2 MIN READ
this time, i’m shaking things up. yes, i’m making my own food. see, i’m not like those critics who have no PRACTICAL knowledge of their subject, always critiquing from a…3 MIN READ
by some stroke of fate, here i am at k-cafe’, a little restaurant tucked inside mookai suites, whose very existence eluded me till about a week back. but now that…4 MIN READ
it’s not easy being a food critic, especially in a city that’s brimming over with the loud and the opinionated. something must be done to stand out. so, i stand…3 MIN READ
hasanfulhu calls me up on a wintry november morning. ‘sup,’ i say. ‘i saw a great crap place.’ ‘what?’ ‘i meant a great CREPE place,’ he corrects himself. i am…3 MIN READ
on the deck of nouvelle the sunlight falls through slats that should remind one of soneva – nothing is straight, everything is crooked. like sonu. jk. it’s an interesting place…3 MIN READ
it’s thursday night again, and i have been working like someone possessed, no, OBSESSED with making money. but to be fair, i do enjoy my work. i’ve been told, rather…4 MIN READ
what a day it is – a still, sunsteeped afternoon that’s gifted us a convention of pale, cottony clouds and gentle, airbrushed streaks across an extraordinarily vivid sky. amid such…4 MIN READ
so, i’m trying to see how far i can go, gauging the reach of these little wings buoyed by their 200 odd followers. a couple of days ago, i messaged @island.butcher –…4 MIN READ
it’s not everyday that you get @sumasaara for review and man am i lucky that this is one of those days. these guys have popped up at shell beans, who does a…3 MIN READ
