honest, humble, and down-to-earth critic – bringing you the best and worst of food in the maldives.
it’s the kind of day that makes you want to step outside and absorb your surroundings, which in my case are mostly trees, home to several clans of rowdy, roosting…3 MIN READ
hey, i can’t eat tonight, machan, but i’ll have a hot drink,’ says ahamma, my friend from childhood as we ride towards our spot for the night. ahamma is a…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
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
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
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
it’s thursday night. i’m at the kanmathee shop to fuel myself up on some coffee, and get a can of hundred plus for later, to take the edge off. the…3 MIN READ
@shaari_ comes to pick me up for our lunch date. i have to consult google maps to guide us because i’m not a hundred percent on the location and shaari even…3 MIN READ
‘never should you assume that any of this matters – even in the shallowest sense,’ says my friend moosaalhu. we’re at don’s fiery chicken on the recommendation of a fellow…3 MIN READ
it’s just me this time, braving a new frontier – sauced up by lucies – on my own. a late dinner, i felt like pasta and someone close had suggested…3 MIN READ
the new oishii near the port in male is one of extremes. tonight, it is extremely crowded – the servers are on the verge of a major panic attack, but…4 MIN READ
sometimes the universe conspires to usher you along a path that you wish you’d thought of on your own, and you WOULD have if you’d known better but the universe…3 MIN READ
we’re at aminadhi’s, the restaurant that’s trying, quite obviously, to give the maldive kitchen a run for its money. though it was established earlier, aminadhi is coughing in the dust…3 MIN READ
we’re at cafeier, hulhumale – THE place for steak if my man bakurube is to be believed. i think he bought into that old economic narrative – the consumption of…3 MIN READ
