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CONTENTS
38 Coverage
Restaurants with Weird Yet Unique Concepts
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Wine Appraisal
Villa Maria
Food Quote
Private Bin
Hospitality News
Chardonnay 2016
East Coast
Wine FAQs
New Zealand
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Why Zinfandel Lovers Should Head to Croatia?
A Day in Lumbini
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Moderate Drinking can lower Risk of Heart Attack, says Study
64 Become The Extraordinary: Set the Standard for Professional Etiquette at Meeting
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Recipes
76 Cocktails & Mocktails
80 Talking Food on Movies
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Year 2017 has been an amazing year for Nepal in the respect to political, tourism & hospitality scenario.
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The country witnessed a very smooth & successful local, provincial & federal election, thereby creating ground for implementation of newly made constitution and has shown the possibility of having a stable government for next five Years. As the process of Provincial & Federal election is yet to conclude and government is yet to form, all Nepali are anxiously waiting for formation of new government which is expected to speed up the development of the country. Yes, there are some suspicion on the country's financial ability to manage one federal government and seven provincial governments and numerous local governments. However, the keen interest of people always has been to overcome all the obstacles and gear up for economic development of the country. Year 2017 also has witnessed handsome increase in the flow of inbound tourist reaching about a million. This increment in the tourist number has definitely encouraged the tourism entrepreneurs and all the other stake holders. But, there is a need of focus in attracting more quality tourist rather than just counting the numbers we have received. We have heard and seen many free individual tourists & some groups traveling to various destinations of the country in very limited budget. This trend if continues, will definitely not be fruitful to the industry. So, it is a high time for all concerned to prepare policies, add on more tourism products so that we can prolong the stay of quality tourist in the country and generate more revenue. Year 2017 has been another special year for hospitality industry. We have seen many new high quality hotels & resorts being opened, announced and more over many receiving variety of awards. We will be having a special report in next issue. Happy New Year 2018
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Dear Editor, The article on Top Cities to visit in 2018 made me feel like rushing for vacation. I wish I could take a long holiday and visit some places. Along with the story on these places, I was impressed by the article on food and wine pairing too. There are so many wines which are difficult for us to combine with different foods. These kind of articles give us a lot ideas. Thank you. Kalpana Sharma Nakhipot, lalitpur
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Food Quote of the Month
“Well, the fridge broke, so I had to eat everything.” Joey Tribbiani Joseph Francis “Joey” Tribbiani, Jr. is a fictional character from the NBC sitcoms Friends and its spinoff Joey, portrayed by Matt LeBlanc. An Italian-American struggling actor, he lives in New York City with his roommate and best friend, Chandler Bing, and hangs out in a tight-knit group of friends - Chandler Bing, Ross Geller, Monica Geller-Bing, Rachel Green and Phoebe Buffay.
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Joey was presumably born in 1968 as he talks about being 13 in 1981. He comes from an Italian American family of eight children. His father Joseph Tribbiani, Sr. (Robert Costanzo), is a pipefitter and his mother’s name is Gloria (Brenda Vaccaro). Joey has seven sisters: Mary Therese (Mimi Lieber) aka Mary Teresa Christina Ricci, Mary Angela (Holly Gagnier), Dina (Marla Sokoloff), Gina (Drea de Matteo), Tina (Lisa Maris), Veronica
(Dena Miceli), and Cookie (Alex Meneses). Joey is from Queens, New York and is Catholic. As a child, he was extremely accident prone. He also had an imaginary friend, Maurice, who was a space cowboy. Joey is portrayed as promiscuous, and dim-witted, but good-natured, as well as
very loyal, caring, and protective of his friends. He’s a food-loving womanizer who has had more luck with dates than any of the other group members. In contrast to his “ladies man” personality, he has also a marked childish side. He enjoys playing video games and foosball. He loves sandwiches and pizza. He is a big fan of Baywatch. As a struggling actor, he is constantly looking for work. He was ordained as a minister in “The One with the Truth About London”, and officiated at both Monica and Chandler and Phoebe and Mike’s weddings. He does not like sharing food and has difficulty with simple mathematics. In sports, Joey likes the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees in baseball, Los Angeles Clippers and New York Knicks in basketball, New York Giants and New York Jets in football, and the Detroit Red Wings and New York Rangers in ice hockey.
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Hospitality News Christmas & New Year Offerings @ Hyatt Regency Kathmandu Christmas Goodies Range of festive treats and handcrafted confectionaries are available for takeaway from The Lobby Lounge from 01 through 30 December 2017 from 12:00 PM - 9:00 PM daily. The festive gift hampers is of the finest quality and include hand-picked product coupled with elegant packaging. An array of ready-toorder hampers is available at the hotel’s lobby. Christmas Eve Dinner - The Cafe An indulgent feast awaits guests at The Café this Christmas with an enhanced Christmas Eve buffet dinner including a glass of mulled wine. This will take place at The Café at 7:00 PM and is priced at NPR 3,100 per person plus taxes. Reservations per person plus taxes and starts at 12.30 PM – 4.00 PM. Reservations recommended. recommended. Christmas Eve Dinner - Rox Restaurant Join us on a luxury epicurean journey at Rox Restaurant, where we will be serving up a delicious four-course menu with choices for each course with a glass of mulled wine, dessert wine. The dinner is priced at NPR 4,600 per person plus taxes and starts from 7:00 pm. The regular a la carte menu will also be available. Reservations recommended. Christmas Brunch – The Cafe Hyatt Regency Kathmandu’s Christmas buffet is a timeless holiday tradition perfect for the entire family that includes live music and kid’s activities. Following a morning filled with opening presents and holiday cheer, guests are invited to Christmas brunch at The Café. This is priced at NPR 3,000
New Year’s Eve Dinner – The Cafe Welcome 2018 in style while enjoying a wonderful dining experience at The Café, where diners will be invited to savor a lavish buffet with a glass of sparkling wine before heading to the Lobby Lounge for an exquisite dessert buffet. Sunday, 31 December 2017 NPR 5,000 per person (plus taxes) 7.00 PM – 10.00 PM Reservations recommended New Year’s Eve Dinner – Rox Restaurant Toast to 2018 with close friends and family while enjoying a fine-dining experience at Rox restaurant, where the culinary team will present a four-course meal, with choices for each course including a glass of champagne and dessert wine-all in a gustatory celebration of New Year’s Eve. Sunday, 31 December 2017 NPR 5,700 per person (plus taxes) 7.00 PM – 10.00 PM Reservations recommended New Year’s Day Brunch – The Cafe Rejoice on the first day of 2018 while continuing the celebration during our magnificent New Year’s Day brunch, which will feature a live barbecue and other extravagant stations, all accompanied by live music and children’s activities. Monday, 1 January 2018 NPR 2,600 per person (plus taxes) 12.30 PM – 4.00 PM Reservations recommended
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Soaltee Crowne Plaza grabbed two awards this year
13th Hospitality India & Explore the World Annual International Travel Award - 2017 for Best Destination MICE Hotel in Nepal was grabbed by Soaltee Crowne Plaza this year.
Along with the international award, it also was successful in getting a national recognition by grabbing the award of Highest Contribution in earning Foreign Exchange from Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation.
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Hospitality News
Hospitality News
Christmas Cake Mixing and Baking Goodies Activities Christmas cake mixing at Shangri-la
Sadichha Shrestha, Deepa Shree Niraula, Usha Khadgi and other known figures participated in the annual Christmas cake mixing of Shangri-la Hotel Kathmandu on 26th November in Shambala Garden.
The cake mixture included almonds, raisins, cashew nuts, walnuts, prunes, sponge cake crumbles, apricots, tutti frutti, blackcurrants, dried figs, dried cherries, mixed fruit peel, pistachios, sultanas, raisins and mixed spices. All of these ingredients were combined with a variety of spirits including whisky, brandy, rum, vodka and wine, as well as orange juice and butter.
Cake mixing ceremony heralds Christmas at Soaltee Crowne Plaza
To herald the festive season of Christmas, Soaltee Crowne Plaza, Kathmandu hosted its annual cake mixing ceremony at the hotel on November 26. Soaltee Crowne Plaza invited members of InterNations in Nepal to join the traditional cake mixing event at the hotel. InterNations is a network for expats with local communities worldwide, with a presence in more than 390 cities. As the largest international community for people who live and work abroad, InterNations offers global networking opportunities, local events and expat-relevant information. Ingredients generally include dry fruits like raisins, black currants, prunes, glazed dates, cherries, candid orange, lemon rinds and nuts like cashews, pistachios and almonds. These are mixed with large quantities of liquor, fresh juices and honey. Freshly ground spices are also added and tossed till the fruits and nuts are well coated and stored. Before the arrival of Christmas, these soaked fruits and nuts are mixed with cake batter and baked to a heavenly perfection.
Christmas Cake Mixing-Radisson In order to welcome Christmas, Radisson Hotel Kathmandu organized their annual Christmas cake mixing ceremony on November 17.
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The traditional Christmas cake is an important part of Christmas celebrations. And making it is no quick and easy task as preparations begin almost a month in advance for that. The first step towards making the cake is the mixing process, formally called the cake-mixing ceremony. The cake mixture at Radisson included nuts, rum, vodka, caramel, cherry, dry fruits and sponge cake crumbles to name a few. This mixture is generally soaked for a period of one month and the cake will is prepared a week before Christmas. The staff of the hotel actively participated in the mixing ceremony.
Seasons Making & BakingYak and Yeti Christmas is a ritual religiously followed all over the world by Christians and other religions too. Season making and baking prior the Christmas is said to be a harbinger of good tidings and happiness. Imbibing the spirit of this ritual, this year Yak & Yeti also decorated Ginger Bread House and inaugurated a wish tree. The wish tree appeared here to support the underprivileged children wishes. The hotel management asked for the wishes to the Bal-Mandir children. Any guests could take the honor to fulfill the child wish by looking at their wish in the wish tree. Wish tree indirectly served as Santa Clause gifting the children. The ambassadors, delegates' wives, corporate and media personality graced the event. Seasons making & baking commemorates the tradition of making decorated gingerbread houses and cookies cutting which began in Germany about 200 years ago. After the publication of the renowned Brothers’ Grimm fairy tale Hansel and Gretel, German bakers began creating ornamented houses made from gingerbread. These Christmas treats flourished and arrived in the United States, where decorating gingerbread houses became a favorite way of celebrating Christmas for many families.
Alike every year, Hotel Yak & Yeti is organizing Christmas Eve dinner and Christmas Day Brunch on 24th December and 25th December respectively.
Cake mixing- Hotel Mulberry
Hotel Mulberry too organized Christmas Cake Mixing this year. The eigth floor of Mulberry was filled with who's who including the Miss Nepal 2010 Sadichha Shrestha and Miss Nepal 2011 Malina Joshi. The beauty queens along with the Chefs prepared the mixture which included various dried fruits which soaked in varieties of liquors and was preserved for baking for Christmas.
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Hospitality News The 15th Samsung Digital Plaza opens in Divine Wine launches New Year Scheme Dharan The 15th Samsung Digital Plaza under the wings of Him Electronics Pvt.Ltd started operation from 23rd November in the city of Dharan. Samsung Digital Plazas are exclusive Samsung showrooms where the brands latest digital products like TVs, Mobiles and other appliances are displayed and sold.
Increasing demand in the market for high end Samsung products and prompted Him Electronics to seek to partnership with Kritima Electronics to set up the store in Dharan. Properitors of Kritima Electronics, Bharat Agrawal & Shiva Bahadur Rana were excited to be associated with the leading Global brand and the initial response that their venture has got. They have committed to improve the customer experience at stores and raise the bar for customer care in Dharan. “We are confident to win the hearts of our customers in and around Dharan,” said the duo.
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“Him Electronics has been at the forefront of the consumer electronics business in Nepal since the past 30 years. It has continuously invested in the market to give better facilities and services to the Nepalese consumers. “We are proud to be opening the 15th Samsung Digital Plaza in Dharan. Though we would have liked to open Samsung Digital Plazas faster and earlier, we are happy to have this opportunity to serve our consumers in Dharan once again. We would like to thank all our partners for their support and wish Kritima Electronics a very successful future,” said the communiqué from the company.
Shree Mahakali Wine, the authorized distributor of Divine Wines has launched a scheme for New Year 2018. In this scheme, consumers need to send a SMS mentioning the Batch No. and Serial No. printed on the back label of the bottle to mobile number 9801104242. Every week, a lucky winner will get a Motorola Smart Phone and every fifteen days, one winner will get Skyworth 32 inches LED TV. Along with these one lucky winner will get a Bumper Prize which is a trip to Thailand.
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Hospitality News Coca-Cola launches its renowned water brand Kinley in Nepal
Coca-Cola in Nepal has launched its bottled drinking water brand Kinley, making a foray into the fastgrowing segment of the beverage market. Packaged drinking water in Nepal is estimated to be the second largest segment in the non-alcoholic ready-to-drink beverage category after sparkling products. Kinley water comes with the assurance of high quality, safe drinking water from The Coca-Cola Company and is produced with state-of-the-art technology using an 8-Step Purification process. Legendary and respected actor Mr. Rajesh Hamal, Brand Ambassador for Kinley, unveiled the brand, along with the Country Director of Coca-Cola in Nepal, Mr. Ambuj Singh and Managing Director of Bottlers Nepal Limited, Mr. Puneet Varshney.
The Dwarika’s Hotel won Luxury Hotel of the Year – Nepal and Dwarika's Resort won Nepal's Best Resort Spa 2017 in World Spa Awards
The Luxury Travel Guide Awards is an international awards programme in recognition of all accommodation options from large hotels & resorts to small luxury properties. Each year, the Luxury Travel Guide invites subscribers, hotel guests, travel agencies and industry experts to vote on luxury accommodation options they feel deserve the recognition. This year Hotel Dwarika's has won the prestigious Luxury Hotel of the Year- Nepal Award.
Dwarika's Resort too grabbed an award this year. Pancha Kosha Himalayan Spa at Dwarika’s Resort Dhulikhel won Nepal's Best Resort Spa 2017 in World Spa Awards.
Hyatt Regency Kathmandu Excellence Award 2017
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Hyatt Regency Kathmandu has been awarded with the Service Excellence Award 2017 by Luxury Travel Guide at the Asia and Australasia Awards. Guests who travel all over the world have nominated the hotel for its unique and high level of service, which left them satisfied and keen to visit again. The Service Excellence Award is an accolade that guarantees a memorable stay at Hyatt Regency Kathmandu, and Luxury Travel Guide was very pleased to inform the hotel’s team of their win. To win the Service Excellence Award, in a category featuring hotels
located across the region, is truly an achievement to be proud of. “We are thrilled to receive this recognition for our hotel. As an organization we constantly strive for excellence and this award is reflective of our consistent service”, said General Manager, Sinead O’Reilly-Henell.
LG's Top Load Washing Machine in Market
CG Impex has launched two washing machines in the category of Top Load Washing Machine from LG in Nepali Market. The capacity of 7 and 8 kgs, these washing machines has Turbo Drum and work under smart inverter motor. Both come with 10 years warranty.
iPhone X now in Nepal
Generation Next Communications Pvt. Ltd., authorized distributor for Apple in Nepal, has been distributing genuine Apple products in the market for years now. Genxt, the only distributor of Apple iPhones and Apple products (MacBooks, iPad , iMac) in Nepal has launched iPhone X from 1st December. Available in 64GB and 256 GB and iPhone X comes in Silver and Space Grey color options.
LG Lucky Draw Winners Declared
LG is continuously rewarding its users through different schemes. Recently it rewarded few lucky winners who participated in the scheme, "Hajurko Parva Hamro Prabidhi" through Facebook. Dipak Adhikari from Biratnagar, Bikram BK from Hetauda, Kilin Rai from Kathmandu, Rabindra Shrestha from Kathmandu, Bhuwan KC from Butwal, Bibek Singh from Kathmandu and Jita Lageju from Bhaktapur grabbed different gift hampers.
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Hospitality News
South Asian Travel Awards (SATA) 2017 Nepal's Hotel Annapurna, Jagatpur Lodge, Shangri-La Hotel, Shangri-La Village Resort, Barahi Jungle Hotel, Dahlia Boutique Hotel, Hotel Mulberry and Hotel Visit Nepal grabbed awards in different categories. The prestigious South Asian Travel Awards (SATA) has announced the winners of 2017 in a historic and eventful Gala held at Equator Village, located in the southernmost Addu City of Maldives. On a night of glamours and celebration, the host country, Maldives received awards for Leading Honeymoon, Leading Diving and Leading Beach Award. While India bagged Leading Heritage, Leading MICE Destinations, and Sri Lanka surprised the delegates
with Leading Surfing Designations. Nepal took the robust Leading Adventure Destination.
with media coverage from multiple nationalities and international news agencies.
This Year’s Leading International Airline and Leading Airline class were both won by Sri Lankan Airline while the Leading New International Airline was won by Himalaya Airlines.
SATA announced the winners of over 40 categories from over 400 nominations. Gold Winners received the South Asia Awards while the Silver was given to the winners of the respective destination.
Spice Jet earned the Leading Low cost carrier award with a huge applause from the delegates. The Leading Airport lounge was won by Leeli Lounge, Velana International Airport, Maldives.
Before the end of the night, SATA Founder and President Mr. Ismail Hameed announced that the 2018 edition would be held in the beautifully Incredible India.
SATA GALA and Awards being telecasted and webcasted Live on MaldivesTV and PSM News was being watched by thousand worldwide
The night ended with the Cultural a cultural music show under the starry skies the exotic Equator Village, Addu City, Maldives celebrating the best of South Asian Hospitality.
Winners of 2017: South Asia's Leading Houseboat Brand-Spice Routes Luxury Cruises
Leading Airport Hotel, Maldives- Hulhule Island Hotel, Maldives
South Asia's Leading Houseboat Spice Routes Luxury Cruises Saffron
South Asia's Leading Airport Hotel- Hulhule Island Hotel, Maldives
Leading Meeting & Convention Center, Sri Lanka-BMICH
Leading Wellness & Spa Brand, South India- Kairali - The Ayurvedic
Leading Meeting & Convention Center, South India- Confluence Banquets
Healing Village
& Resort,India
Leading Wellness & Spa Brand, Maldives- Araamu Spa
Leading Meeting & Convention Center, BhutanLe Meridien Thimphu
Leading Wellness & Spa Brand, Sri Lanka- Spa Cenvaree
South Asia's Leading Meeting & Convention Center-Confluence Banquets
South Asia's Leading Wellness & Spa Brand- Araamu Spa
& Resort,India
Leading Business Hotel, South India- Sheraton Grand Hotel Bangalore at
Leading Travel Technology, North India-Avis india
Brigade Gateway, India
Leading Travel Technology, Sri Lanka-Findmyfare .com
Leading Business Hotel, North India- The Suryaa New Delhi
Leading Travel Technology, South India-Perfect Hands Solutions, India
Leading Business Hotel, Sri Lanka- Mövenpick Hotel Colombo, Sri Lanka
South Asia's Leading Travel Technology-Findmyfare.com
Leading Business Hotel, Maldives- Hulhule Island Hotel, Maldives
Leading Tourist Transport Provider (Land), South India- Princy Travels,
Leading Business Hotel, Nepal- Hotel Annapurna, Nepal
India
South Asia's Leading Business Hotel- Sheraton Grand Hotel Bangalore at
Leading Tourist Transport Provider (Land) Sri Lanka- Casons Rent A Car,
Brigade Gateway, India
Sri Lanka
Leading Heritage Hotel / Palace, South India- Taj West End, Bangalore
Leading Tourist Transport Provider (Land) North India- Avis, India
Leading Heritage Hotel / Palace, North India- Jehan Numa Palace, India
South Asia's Leading Tourist Transport Provider (Land) - Casons Rent A
Leading Heritage Hotel / Palace, Sri Lanka- Galle Face Hotel, Sri Lanka
Car , Sri Lanka Leading Hill Hotel / Resort, Bhutan- Ro-Chog Pel Hotel
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Leading Hill Hotel / Resort, North India- Shervani Hilltop Nainital Leading Hill Hotel / Resort, South India- Carmelia Haven Plantation Resort & Spa, India South Asia's Leading Hill Hotel / Resort- Carmelia Haven Plantation Resort & Spa, India Leading Lake Hotel / Resort, Sri Lanka- Cinnamon Citadel, Sri Lanka Leading Lake Hotel / Resort, South India- Anantya Resorts, India South Asia's Leading Lake Hotel / Resort- Cinnamon Citadel, Sri Lanka Leading Airport Hotel, Bhutan- Tashi Namgay Resort, Bhutan Leading Airport Hotel, South India- Courtyard Marriot Kochi Airport
Hotel Annapurna
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Hospitality News
Jagatpur Lodge Leading Heritage Hotel / Palace, Nepal- Hotel Annapurna, Nepal
Shangri-La Village Resort Leading Meeting & Conference Hotel / Resort, Nepal- Shangri-La Hotel,
South Asia's Leading Heritage Hotel / Palace- Taj West End, Bangalore
Kathmandu, Nepal
South Asia's Leading Wildlife Hotel / Resort- Barahi Jungle Hotel,Nepal
South Asia's Leading Meeting & Conference Hotel / Resort- Confluence
Leading Wildlife Hotel / Resort, Nepal- Barahi Jungle Hotel
Banquets & Resort, India
Leading Wildlife Hotel / Resort, South India- Forest Canopy
Leading Wellnes & Spa Hotel / Resort, Maldives- Jumeirah Vittaveli,
Resort,Thekkady
Maldives
Leading Wildlife Hotel / Resort, Sri Lanka- Chena Huts by Uga Escapes
Leading Wellness & Spa Hotel / Resort, Sri Lanka- Jetwing Lagoon, Sri
Leading Wildlife Hotel / Resort, North India- Kanha Earth Lodge, India
Lanka
South Asia's Leading Surf Hotel / Resort- Cinnamon Dhonveli, MALDIVES
Leading Wellness & Spa Hotel / Resort, South India- Vythiri Village Resort,
Leading F&B Hotel / Resort, Maldives- Conrad Maldives Rangali Island
India
Leading F&B Hotel / Resort, Sri Lanka- Cinnamon Bey Beruwala, Sri
Leading Wellness & Spa Hotel / Resort, Bhutan- Tashi Namgay Resort,
Lanka
Bhutan
Leading F&B Hotel / Resort, South India- The Residency Towers
Leading Wellness & Spa Hotel / Resort, Nepal- Shangri-La Village Resort,
Coimbatore, India
Pokhara, Nepal
South Asia's Leading F&B Hotel / Resort- Conrad Maldives Rangali Island
South Asia's Leading Wellness & Spa Hotel / Resort- Jumeirah Vittaveli,
Leading All Inclusive Hotel / Resort, Sri Lanka- Centara Ceysands Resort
Maldives
& Spa
Leading Adventure Sport Service Provider, Maldives- Q Adventures
Leading All Inclusive Hotel / Resort, Maldives- LUX* Maldives
Leading Adventure Sport Service Provider, Bhutan- Bhutan Exotic Travel
South Asia's Leading All Inclusive Hotel / Resort- LUX* Maldives
Leading Adventure Sports Service Provider, North India- Snow Leopard
Leading Adventure Hotel / Resort, Maldives- Paradise Island Resort & Spa
Adventure
Leading Adventure Hotel / Resort, Nepal- Jagatpur Lodge by Annapurna
Leading Adventure Sports Service Provider, South India- Kofiland Resort,
Leading Adventure Hotel / Resort, South India- Tea Valley Resort, Munnar
India
South Asia's Leading Adventure Hotel / Resort- Jagatpur Lodge by
South Asia's Leading Adventure Sports Service Provider- Q Adventures
Annapurna
South Asia's Leading Activity Watersports Center- Best Dives Maldives
Leading Meeting & Conference Hotel / Resort, South- India Confluence
Leading Tour Operator, Maldives- Inner Maldives Holiday
Banquets & Resort, India
Leading Tour Operator, South India- Intersight Tours & Travel
Leading Meeting & Conference Hotel / Resort, North India- Jehan Numa
Leading Tour Operator, North India- India City Walks
Palace - An Experiential Hotel
Leading Tour Operator, Sri Lanka- Findmyfare
Leading Meeting & Conference Hotel / Resort, Bhutan -Le Meridien
Leading Tour Operator, Bhutan- Bhutan Exotic Travel
Thimphu
South Asia's Leading Tour Operator- Inner Maldives Holidays
Leading Meeting & Conference Hotel / Resort, Maldives- Paradise Island
Leading Eco Hotel / Resort, Maldives- Coco Palm Dhuni Kolhu , Maldives
Resort & Spa
Leading Eco Hotel / Resort, Sri Lanka- AMUNA Ayurveda Retreat, Sri Lanka
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Leading Eco Hotel / Resort, South India- The Ibnii Coorg, India Leading Eco Hotel / Resort, Nepal- Barahi Jungle Hotel,Nepal South Asia's Leading Eco Hotel / Resort- Coco Palm Dhuni Kolhu , Maldives Leading City Hotel, South India- Taj West End, Bangalore , India Leading City Hotel, North India- The Suryaa New Delhi, India Leading City Hotel, Nepal- Hotel Mulberry Leading City Hotel, Sri Lanka- The Kingsbury South Asia's Leading City Hotel- Taj West End, Bangalore, India Shangri-La Hotel
Hospitality News
Hotel Mulberry
Barahi Jungle Hotel
South Asia's Leading Domestic Tourist Transport Provider (Air) - Maldivian
Leading Guesthouse / Tourist Inn, Nepal- Hotel Visit Nepal
Leading CSR Programme, Sri Lanka- Royal Palms Beach Hotel, Kalutara,
Leading Guesthouse / Tourist Inn, Sri Lanka- Aqua Inn, Trincomalee , Sri
Sri Lanka
Lanka
Leading CSR Programme, Maldives- Adaaran Select Meedhupparu ,
South Asia's Leading Guesthouse / Tourist Inn- Reveries Diving Village,
Maldives
Maldives
Leading CSR Programme, South India- Uday Samudra Leisure Beach Hotel
South Asia's Leading Dive Hotel / Resort- Adaaran Select Meedhupparu ,
& Spa, India
Maldives
South Asia's Leading CSR Programme- Royal Palms Beach Hotel, Kalutara,
Leading Family Hotel / Resort, Nepal- Dahlia Boutique Hotel, Nepal
Sri Lanka
Leading Family Hotel / Resort, Sri Lanka- Jetwing Blue
South Asia's Leading PSA Service Provider- Voyages Maldives, Maldives
Leading Family Hotel / Resort, Maldives- Sun Island Resort & Spa
South Asia's Leading GSA Service Provider- Ace Aviations Services,
Leading Family Hotel / Resort, Bhutan- Tashi Namgay Resort, Bhutan
Maldives
Leading Family Hotel / Resort, South India- Fragrant Nature Kochi
South Asia's Leading Liveaboard Brand- Voyages Maldives
Leading Family Hotel / Resort, North India- Jehan Numa Palace - An
South Asia's Leading Liveaboard- Scuba Spa Yang, Maldives
Experiential Hotel
Leading Travel Agent, Maldives- Voyages Maldives
South Asia's Leading Family Hotel / Resort- Sun Island Resort & Spa
Leading Travel Agent, Sri Lanka- Findmyfare
Leading Luxury Hotel / Resort, Nepal- Barahi Jungle Hotel, Nepal
Leading Travel Agent, Bhutan- Bhutan Exotic Travel
Leading Luxury Hotel / Resort, Sri Lanka- Uga Bay by Uga Escapes, Sri
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Restaurants with Weird Yet Unique Concepts
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estaurant business has become very competitive. People are choosing it as place for the celebration of any occasion in one hand and on the other hand restaurateurs are offering unique experiences to their customers by offering something different than the regular ones. There are restaurants built differently and are liked by the people. Some have difference in their architecture, design, seating arrangements, food presentation, customer types and many other things. Restaurants are evolving according to
the new and different taste of the young generation. Many times the selection of hotel or restaurant type for any occasion influences the perception of people & gives differentiated meaning to the occasion. Traditional restaurants customize themselves in such a way that they present the sign of culture, customs, and generation. Contemporary theme parties organized in hotels and restaurants give a special meaning to the occasion. Nowadays, theme based restaurants with great architecture are
able to attract people and they become the reasons for people to visit for meal or occasion. But, the major important factor of restaurant business remains the food served in the any types of restaurants. So, the restaurateurs are focusing to offer good, unique palatable food in their differently built restaurants so that they can attract more people to their sites. Here we are presenting some of the restaurants across the globe which offers their uniqueness along with the food they serve.
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Fortezza Medicea, Italy This may be one of the world’s most difficult reservations to secure. It
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requires a thorough background check and the "OK" from Italy’s Department of Justice. That’s because most chefs, waiters, and sommeliers are serving 25 to life. Launched in 2006 in a 500-yearold prison outside Pisa, Fortezza Medicea in Volterra is a kind of social experiment: can a restaurant staffed by some of Italy’s most hardened criminals provide viable job training? Guests find
out by shuffling into a massive room filled with plain benches, where guards (not maitre d’s) survey the crowd. Devil Island Prison, China Large steel structure at the entrance, the inside doors and windows of steel bars, metal floors, the servers dressed in black and white striped uniforms as inmates, the security personnel are dressed as
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Cat Café, "Cat Flower Garden", worlds the first cat café opened in Taipei in 1998& soon became a tourist destination, attracting tourists from Japan and other countries. But, the concept blossomed in Japan, starting from "Neko no Jikan",meaning "Cat's Time" in Osaka in 2004, then "Neko no mise" meaning Shop of Cats in Tokyo in 2005 & reaching to nearly 80 by 2010. The concept became popular in Japan for the reason that Japan's land size and population limits its people to live in small apartments or condominiums which do not allow pets. Cat cafés are popular destination for people looking for the companionship. The staffs are watchful to ensure the cats are treated respectfully by the customers & also offer complimentary dried cat food to enable guests to attract the cats to be friendly. Now there are Cat Cafes in many places like Singapore, Thailand, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, UK, Canada, US, etc.
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prison guards& more over the foods are also served on typical prison trays. The restaurant offers a different experience, but is not for those who enjoy homely settings to dine in. Upon entering the restaurant, customers become prisoners, they are photographed, fingerprinted, and optionally handcuffed. Don't expect a beautiful decorated table to dine in, after all you're still in prison so you will dine in a simple metal table. Food in the contrary, for decoration purposes, actually looks ice prison food but tastes absolutely amazing. The owner of the Devil Island restaurants in China reportedly wanted to scare people away from a life of crime by showing them just how rough prison life can bethrough a jail-themed restaurant. Ice Restaurants Dubai: Almost everything at the restaurant is sculpted out of ice. Diners will sit on ice benches or chairs, eat at ice tables, out of ice plates, drink from ice glasses served from a bar made of ice.Chillout, the ice lounge is Dubaibased Sharaf Group’s enterprise with technical inputs from Canada-based Iceculture Inc. Chillout Lounge is an interesting combination of ice, glass & steel. The diffused lighting changes its colors at certain intervals and it filters through crystal clear blocks of ice, filling them with low-lux hues of varying patterns, making the moment freeze in its ambience.
Finland: Snowman World is located in Santa Claus Village, approximately 8 km north of Rovaniemi in Finnish Lapland offers the world’s only ice restaurant located exactly on the Arctic Circle. Incredibly beautiful ice sculptures, exciting details and a menu created from local ingredients add to an unforgettable experience. The booking to Ice Restaurant would be for Wednesday and Saturday evenings whereas during Christmas and New Year’s Special Season Ice Restaurant opens every day. London: Icebar London is the UK’s only permanent icebar, made of natural river ice sourced from northern Sweden, 200km above the Arctic Circle. The Icebar transforms every year with all new ice sculptures and cool cocktails served in our famous ice glasses. It requires tickets for an entry in this bar which is valid for 40 minute session including gloves & a designer thermal cape to keep guests warm, plus a personal ice glass with choice of cocktail. Undersea Restaurants Maldives: Ithaa boasts the title of the world's first all-glass undersea restaurant, located 16 feet below the surface of the Indian Ocean between a lagoon & coral reef at the Conrad Maldives Rangali Island hotel. Ithaa serves caviar and Maldivian lobsterjust a couple of the menu items to be
enjoyed while taking in the 180-degree panoramic views of the water above you. Ithaa has only 12 seats and can be reached by a wooden walkway from the nearby over-water Sunset Grill. The five-million-dollar restaurant serves a four-course contemporary fusion Maldivian menu. Ithaa can be booked for a private breakfast, weddings or other special occasions and is also open for mid-morning cocktails. From your over-water villa, head underwater to the aptly named Sea at Anantara Kihavah Villas in the
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A380 In-Flight Kitchen, Taiwan
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The breakfast, lunch and dinner menus feature a varied spread of dishes from around the world with a focus on seafood dishes at lunch. Highlights include a Wagyu Beef Wellington, poached lobster medallion and red mullet filet wrapped in a lobster carpaccio.
Dubai: The floor-to-ceiling aquarium inside Al Mahara is exactly the underwater dining experience you’d expect from a restaurant within Dubai’s luxurious Burj Al Arab hotel. Al Mahara, which translates to “the oyster shell,” offers a menu well suited for the restaurant’s ambiance, including poached tsarskaya oysters and sea salt–crusted sea bass. Al Mahara has plush private dining rooms catering for large groups and is equally suited to couples looking for an intimate, gourmet dinner in aquatic surroundings. A380 In-Flight Kitchen, Taiwan The diner decor cost about USD 209,000& it looks exactly like the Airbus A380, billed as the most spacious passenger aircraft in the world, began flying commercially in October 2007. People who experience meal in airplanes but does not want to go through security and paying expensive may visit the A380 In-Flight Kitchen in Taipei. The restaurant resembles the inside of a plane, with faux oval-shaped windows, baggage compartments and speckled blue seats complete with headrests. Waitresses dress like flight attendants, and “passengers” have much more than just chicken or fish to choose from.
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Maldives. The mirrored interior reflects the surrounding Indian Ocean sea life as you dine on European cuisine and take suggestions from the sommelier. The Sea restaurant sits on the ocean floor and offers guests 360° views of local marine life from the edge of the reef, which is also one of the best scuba diving spots in the area.
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Toilet Restaurant, Taiwan
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Toilet Restaurant, Taiwan Marton Theme Restaurant in Kaohsiung,has toilet concept for their unique restaurant. They decorate the room and the chairs that created just like toilets. Tables created to look like bathtubs, and food will be served on plates and bowls that designed like toilet seats too. Customers love their delicious food combined with the toilet design make special sensation. Dinner in a Hospital Taiwan: D.S. Music Restaurant in Taipei, which in no way hints at what’s actually inside. Wait staff dressed in nurse uniforms push you to your table in wheelchairs, where your drinks are served from an IV-like contraption hanging from the ceiling. The ‘nurses’ ask trivia questions, and if you get them right, you’re rewarded with shots
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of a tasty drink squirted into your mouth with a syringe. It only gets a stranger from there. Once you’re done eating, a female staff member in a deranged ballerina costume dances on your table. Singapore: A high-end concept restaurant Heston Blumenthal’s Fat Duck, where food is operated on under surgical lights and diners are seated in wheelchairs. Here food takes the form of weird science experiments: foams, liquid nitrogen, even an ultrasonic mixing technique used to create unique emulsions& is called molecular gastronomy. Simulating a hospital, chefs “operate” on gourmet oddities in an open demo kitchen under the glow of operating room lights. The entire 13-course menu is served on stainless steel surgical tables to diners seated in gleaming gold-plated wheelchairs.
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Dining in The Dark China: Beijing's dining in the Dark Restaurant rooms are designed so black and so dark that incoming visitors will be guide to the table by waiters that equipped with night view binoculars. Visitors can only smell and taste the food by eating them in the dark.
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Canada: Dining in the dark was introduced in Canada in 2006, with the opening of O.NOIR in Montreal and then a second location in Toronto in 2009. O.NOIR's philosophy is that a diner’s enjoyment is amplified when his sight is eliminated as the other senses become heightened. The evening starts in a lit bar where guests place their orders; then they are led by a server into an unlit dining room, where a twohour seated dinner service begins with servers explaining where everything is placed on the table. United Kingdom: Dans Le Noirin London’s Clerken well makes up to60 diners eat meal & can give rough instructions to the server in a blackened room. The waiters here are blind. It’s meant to completely revolutionize your sense of taste. Dans Le Noir is a series of worldwide restaurants (Paris, Barceolna, London, St. Petersburg, and Nairobi) that offers the chance to dine blind.
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Dinner in the Sky, France, Belgium, Dubai
Tombs Restaurant, India This weird restaurant is famous with the menu such as milk-tea, bread rolls and the tombs between the tables. Located in Ahmedabad, the restaurant owner claimed to have open this restaurant for 40 years hereditary, but never know who are buried beneath these graves. Redwoods Treehouse, New Zealand Built inside a real redwood tree in Warkworth, Redwoods Treehouse offers guests a very unique dinner experience. Diners enter the treehouse by way of an elevated treetop walkway that leads to a cocoon-shaped pod structure that is situated about 32 feet up the redwood tree. The restaurant can accommodate up to 30 seated guests, and is available for private hire—guests hosting events. Dinner in the Sky, France, Belgium, Dubai At Dinner in the Sky, diners are strapped into chairs, rose to the height of 165 feet in the air and served meals like ham
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salad and sauteed prawns that are cooked in a small oven in the center of the structure. Dinner in the sky at Paris, Brussels, and Dubai offers 22 seat-belted guests a chance to dine at a seven-ton table attached to a crane. It takes approximately two hours to set up, one hour to break down. Each guest must reach a minimum height of five feet to dine in the sky and the whole set up should be lowered if any diner wants to use the restroom-it only takes a minute to lower.
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Condom Restaurant, Thailand Cabbages and condoms is the name of this restaurant. There are many types of condom display on the wall, carpet and painting too. After paying the bill, visitors will be given condoms at the cashier. The profit of this restaurant used to support a foundation called Population and Community Development Association (PDA).
Coverage De Kas, The Netherlands An old greenhouse in Amsterdam that was due to be demolished in 2001, but was saved by an ambitious Michelin star chef, Gert Jan Hageman, who converted the unique twenty six foot high glass building into a restaurant and nursery. A restaurant where the menu selections are prepared using the freshest possible ingredients, and by freshest, it means harvested in the field at sunrise of the same day of dining. Mediterranean vegetables, herbs and edible flowers are grown and harvested at the greenhouse and garden near the restaurant. Hageman can be found in De Kas’ nursery daily, working the soil, planting, weeding and harvesting herbs and vegetables.
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Isdaan, Philippines According to a cursory scan of reviews on t’interweb, there are plenty of sound gastronomic reasons to visit fish restaurant Isdaan should you ever be down Philippines way. And yet, the reason for its inclusion here is that in an antechamber, diners can smash plates, mugs and even TVs before settling down to some scrumptious seafood. Violence and cracking food: a win win.
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Coverage The Exchange Bar & Grill, US A ticker showing current drink prices runs behind the bar of The Exchange Bar & Grill in New York City. The Exchange is stock market–themed, with prices for food and beverages fluctuating like stock prices according to demand.
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Nude Restaurants, UK, Spain, France & Germany London, The Bunyadi: Named after a Hindi term meaning “fundamental” “base” or “natural”, the Bunyadi, world’s first nude restaurant is the brain child of Sebastian Lyall. Diners are asked to check in their phones at the door before they are led to a changing room to get into nothing but a bathrobe. They are then taken to their table where they can dine in the buff, separated from other diners by bamboo partitions. “The idea is to experience true liberation. The use of natural bamboo partitions and
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candlelight has enabled to us to make the restaurant discreet.” explains Lyall. Spain, Innato: It is the first naked restaurant opened inspired by pop-up nude eatery, the Bunyadi in London. It employs staff to serve up an “aphrodisiac menu” there by offering diners to eat some gourmet libido-boosting food while completely in the buff. The restaurant booked every one of its 46,000 places within weeks and had a waiting list of thousands. At Innato, staff will strip-off and display the culinary delights on their bodies with just vine leaves or cloths to keep their modesty. France, O’Naturel: Paris has recently opened the city’s first restaurant for diners who prefer to consume their food in the nude. O’naturel, opened on 2nd Nov 2017 in the city’s 12th arrondissement, though it’s located
on an unassuming block away from the neighborhood’s trendy restaurants. Guests at the 40-seat eatery will reportedly be instructed to disrobe in a coat-check room before being brought to their tables. There, they’ll dine on fine French fare including duck foie gras and escargot. The waiters and kitchen staff, meanwhile, will reportedly keep their clothes on for hygienic reasons. Berlin, Black Cat restaurant: A free pop-up restaurant where guests pop off their clothes to dine naked - and completely nude waitresses serve the dinner. The new nude eaterie proved a rip-off-your-clothes and brought a whole new meaning to the phrase ‘hot food ‘. Meals were free to naked customers. Local celebrities joined in when it launched for one week in July 2016 only as part of the erotic ‘Venus’ festival. (Various agencies and sources)
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Wine Appraisal
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VILLA MARIA Private Bin Chardonnay 2016
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he Villa Maria Private Bin East Coast blend consists of parcels grown in Gisborne, Hawkes Bay and a small portion from the Marlborough region. This inter-regional blend produces a complete wine displaying the full spectrum of Chardonnay flavors. The vineyards in the three regions are managed differently to ensure that their individual microclimate produces the optimal fruit.
This 2016 vintage is fruit-driven in style, exhibiting ripe peach and pear aromas with underlying citrus and fig notes. On the palate these initial fruit flavors are followed by a creamy texture with integrated oak characters. A medium bodied wine that is soft and styled for enjoyment now and over the next two to three years. Sight/ Appearance Clear in appearance with medium minus intensity. Nose The wine is clean on the nose with medium plus intensity. The aroma shows it is still in its developing phase. Quite floral on the nose.
Palate It is a dry wine with medium acidity. The alcohol is also on the medium side. This is a medium plus bodied wine with ripe melon, fennel, kiwi and roses flavors. Finish The finish is medium in length. This wine is ready to drink and can also be aged.
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Overall Rating Sweetness: Dry Acidity: Medium Alcohol: Medium
Suggestive Foods Chicken Caesar Salad Seafood Dishes Antipasto
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Wine FAQs
Does the age of the vine affect the quality of the wine? Samikshya Sijapati Teku, Kathmandu You will sometimes see on French wine labels the term Vieilles Vignes (“old vines”). In California, many Zinfandels are made from vines that are more than 75 years old. In Europe, South America, Australia, and South Africa I’ve tasted many wines that were made with grapes from vines that are over 100 years old. Many wine tasters believe that these old vines create a different complexity and taste than do younger vines. In many countries, grapes from vines three years old or younger cannot be made into a winery’s top wine. What does it mean when a wine is listed as “drink now”? Sandesh Pakhrin Jwagal, Lalitpur
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A window of “drink now” means that
If you know you prefer your wines with a little more bottle age on them, or if your experience with the producer or vineyard in question differs from ours, follow your own palate, always. Why are some wines not suitable for vegetarians? Sumitra Karki Naikap, Kathmandu
the taster doesn’t believe this wine will improve with any additional bottle age. Many (actually, most) wines are ready to drink upon release, and many wine drinkers prefer to enjoy these wines when they’re still young and have their youthful flavors and structure. However, “drink now” doesn’t mean “drink immediately or the wine will turn to vinegar.” Even the most approachable wines will usually deliver pleasure for several years past the vintage date.
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Normally this is because of the agents that have been used to ‘fine’ or clarify the wine, which can be animal derived products like isinglass (from fish) or gelatin (which can be derived from animal bones). There are alternative fining agents like PVPP, a synthetic agent, and Casein which is made from milk (so not suitable for vegans). Vegetarian-suitable wines normally carry that information on the back label.
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Why Zinfandel Lovers Should Head To Croatia?
- By Kate Springer
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merica claims zinfandel as its own-but Croatia has something to say about that.
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Zinfandel is misunderstood on many levels. It’s way more than a boxed wine downed by college kids and book clubs. There’s the blush we all know, and then a peppery, full-bodied red that we dare to say-yes, we dare-could compete with any shiraz out there. It’s also considered an all-American wine, and even has its own holiday: Every year on November 15, zinthusiasts around the U.S. raise a toast to “America’s Heritage Grape”with one minor problem. Zinfandel isn’t actually American. The second-most popular red in the country comes from a black-skinned grape that was brought from Austria to a Flushing, New York nursery back in the 1820s. It was considered low quality, and was turned into liquid in tenement basements. The wine made its way west to California a few decades later, where it was swigged by river-panning forty-niners during the Gold Rush and used to add darker color to wines like Burgundy and Chianti. Eventually, as zinfandel began appearing unblended, its popularity grew, but the mystery remained: No one knew where this grape came from, and early efforts to find its birthplace proved frustratingly difficult. In the late 1970s and early ‘80s, many experts thought zinfandel was primitivo, the grape found in southern Italy and Sicily; a few years later, they said it was plavac mali, the primary red grape grown along the Dalmatian coast (more on that later). But with advances
in DNA testing in the 1990s, Dr. Carole Meredith-who, at the time, worked as a grapevine geneticist at the University of California, and has been dubbed “one of the world’s pre-eminent grapevine sleuths”-made it her mission to unlock zinfandel’s origin story once and for all. “People considered it ‘California’s own variety’ because it was not known anywhere else, but it was clear from its leaf shape that it was a European grape,” Meredith tells Condé Nast Traveler. “But from where? And what was it
called? If it were from France, Italy, or one of the other mainstream western European wine regions, someone would have recognized it as theirs long ago.” Following the earlier lead, which showed Croatian’s plavac mali as a relative, Meredith worked with Croatian professors Edi Maletic and Ivan Pejic to find the grape in its first form. It took years of trawling the coastline, of painstaking work collecting stems and leaves, examining every detail. Finally, in 2001, Maletic and Pejic stumbled
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years later, Maletic estimates there are about 250 acres of crljenak kaštelanski (about a half-million vines) and at least a dozen producers on the market. It’s a fraction of Croatia’s total 51,000 acres, to be sure, but it’s a remarkable rebound from near extinction.
winemakers with enthusiasm,” says Romana Bladevi?, a spokesperson for Zlatan Otok. “We planted 50,000 vines in our vineyards below Mount Biokovo [located in Baška Voda, south of Split] in 2004 and in 2007. We were the first winery in Croatia that produced a bottle of crljenak [following Meredith’s discovery] and we are very proud of it.” Grapes at Zlatan Otok winery, which was the first in Croatia to produce a bottle of crljenak following Meredith’s discovery.
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What it tastes like “Crljenak kaštelanski is a top-quality red with a deep color and big tannins, notes of dark berries and a full body,” says Maria Mustapi?, co-founder of Zinfandel Food & Wine Bar in Split. Crljenak kaštelanski is also becoming “Differences between zinfandel and crljenak kaštelanski exist, but they’re a wine menu staple in Croatia, but not primarily related to the question of taste necessarily by that name. Depending and aroma, due to variations in terroir on where you are-and whom you askand production. [Generally speaking], it could go by tribidrag (the ancient crljenak kaštelanski contains more moniker for zinfandel), kratošija, or tannins than a California zinfandel, and pribidrag. They’re all genetically the it also tends to be fruitier.” same, but display subtle variations: All are deep red-no white zin here-and “People usually say Croatian zin is dryer have berry and spice flavors. (Generally than American zin and softer than Italian speaking, the warmer the area, the primitivo (another zin twin),” says spicier the wine.) Bladevi?. “It has a distinctive southern Dalmatian character due to the climate, Zlatan Otok, an award-winning soil, and wine-making traditions.” Croatian winery with three locations across the coastline, was among the first And this full-bodied wine is also best wineries to kick off the renaissance. paired with the obvious-meat, like beef
upon a vine that looked like zinfandel in the Kaštela region, north of Split. Back “Learning that zinfandel was actually crljenak infected all Dalmatian in her California lab, Meredith analyzed the leaf DNA, and the mystery was solved: Croatia’s crljenak kaštelanski (pronounced tsurl-yenak kash-telyanskee), which had just an estimated 25 vines left in Croatia at that time (due to a massive insect infestation that annihilated swathes of European vines in the late 19th century) is zinfandel in its native form. With its newfound claim to fame, the grape’s fate began to change. Winemakers across Croatia doubled down on the black-skinned grapes following the discovery; more than 15
or duck-along with the traditional meal pašticada (beef cooked with plums in red wine).
Enoteca@Fnw Where to get a taste of zinfandel in Croatia Kaštela: In Kaštela, where the grape was discovered, travelers can tour family-run vineyards such as Bedalov Winery and Kovac Winery (reservations required).
In Split, you’ll also find the wine at stylish addresses like Wine & Cheese Bar Paradox, which has a wine terrace overlooking the harbor, and industrialchic Bokeria Kitchen & Wine Bar (stay for the food, like gnocchi with pistachio cream sauce and a light matcha cheesecake).
Hvar: On the island of Hvar, about two hours by ferry from Split, local favorites such as Red Red Wine Bar, Tapas & Wine Bar Gurme, and Vintage Hvar also pour the now-famous wine. Omiš: Another favorite is Ku?a Sretnog Covjeka -or “House of the Happy Man”-on the slopes of Omiš, south of Split. The happy man, in this case, is winemaker Nikša Mimica,
who produced a particularly notable 2008 Pribidrag (the area’s traditional moniker). Dubrovnik: Sample the original zinfandel at local mainstays like the cavernous Wine Bar Matuško, D’vino Wine Bar (down a little lane in Old Town), and Malvasija Wine Bar, the tasting room of a local winemaker. Source: www.go-wine.com
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Split: Inside Split’s fourth-century, UNESCO-protected fortress walls, the decidedly more modern Zinfandel Food & Wine Bar is devoted to Croatian producers. The open-air eatery pours 30 local wines by the glass, more than 100 bottles, and private wine-tasting sessions.
A Day in Lumbini
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y long cherished desire to visit Lumbini and to see the exact birth spot of Lord Buddha was finally fulfilled during Tihar holidays. Along with my visit, I did also intend to write an extended article about the current situation of Lumbini and the people around there. A motorbike riding from Pokhara via Palpa and Butwal was a wonderful experience. A recently blacktopped, straight road from Butwal to Bhairawa was enough to give a feeling of satisfaction. The quality of road from Bhairawa to the main gate of Lumbini was also excellent.
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Going back into the history, Lumbini was left in oblivion for centuries. Muslim invaders who ruled over India for several years were not kind enough to other religions. Different Muslim invaders went on rampage and destroyed several Hindu temples and Buddhist monasteries across the length
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and breadth of India. Several broken idols of Hindu gods & goddesses and Lord Buddha are the testimony to the fact that Muslim invaders were extremely intolerant and ruthless against other religions. Had Indian Emperor Ashoka not visited Lumbini and erected a stone pillar with inscription, commemorating the birth of Gautam Buddha in Lumbini in 248 BC, it would be extremely difficult for the archeologists to determine the exact birthplace of Lord Buddha. Xuanzang, a Chinese monk, who visited Lumbini in 637 BC, had written extensively about his visit to India. He had even translated several Buddhist scriptures into the Chinese language. Fortunately, those scriptures are still survived in China. Alois Fuhrer, a German archaeologist, had rediscovered Lumbini in 1895. He is credited to have discovered Ashoka pillar and a temple at the location. A
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number of excavations were carried out and in the course of time, many Buddhist structures were rediscovered. Today, the entire area of Mayadevi temple has been rediscovered along with the exact birth marker stone of Lord Buddha in 1996. A pond has also been restored where it is believed that Mayadevi and her newly born baby had a bath. In the meantime, it was of course a big day when Lumbini was granted World Heritage status by UNESCO in 1997. This scribe noticed that many visitors looked skeptic when they saw an exact birthmark stone of Lord Buddha. How this is possible to be so sure about an exact spot where Lord Buddha was born centuries ago. Their curiosity seems right because Lumbini was virtually left in oblivion for centuries, then how it is possible to locate an exact spot of birth of Lord Buddha. This was really a tough task before the archeologists as well. However, a careful study, with the help of modern
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At present Lumbini Development Trust (LDT), which is an autonomous and nonprofit making organization, is taking care of development and supervising activities. The Lumbini development activities are being carried out according to Lumbini Master Plan, which was initiated by the United Nations and Prof. Kenzo Tange in 1978. However, even after 39 years, development activities are going on at the snail pace. It is not known that how much more time it will take to complete Lumbini Master Plan. However, the inside area of the Lumbini is magnificent, serene and aesthetically beautiful. The visitors should take off their shoes and shocks before entering the garden where Ashoka pillar, Mayadevi temple and the birthplace of Lord Buddha are preserved with great care. Many Buddhist devotees sit before the Ashoka pillar and pray while others stand beside the Ashoka pillar and get a photograph to preserve the memory for lifetime.
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The entire area of Lumini is spread over 4.8km in length and 1.6km in width.
The magnificent monastery built by Germany.
A group of Buddhist pilgrims from Thailand
technology, finally the archeologists became successful to locate an exact spot where Lord Buddha was born. During excavations, the archeologists discovered an older timber structure beneath the walls of recent brick walls, which was built during the Ashoka era. Radiocarbon dating of wooden postholes and stimulated luminescence dating of elements in the soil confirms regular human activity at a particular spot for a long period. That means this very spot was regularly worshiped by the devotees of Lord Buddha. Based on such evidences, archeologists have confirmed the same spot as the exact birthmark of Lord Buddha.
The visitors can tour the area and see fabulous monasteries built by different countries. Among many beautiful monasteries, the monastery built by Germany is outstanding. A large pond right before the monastery is simply awesome. At the same time, the visitors can hire a battery-powered riksha, or they can take their own vehicles to have sightseeing. However, to my dismay this scribe saw several luxury buses, jeeps, vans and motorbikes parked inside the Lumbini premises. The emission of carbon from those vehicles will definitely take a toll on the historical monuments of Lumbini. It is beyond my understanding that why the concerned authority of LDT has allowed carbon belching vehicles inside the Lumbini area. Not only this, occasionally even large kitchens are set beside the monasteries where several dishes are cooked and served the guests. I personally witnessed all this going on there. To make things go bad to worse the government has also allowed several industries in the vicinity of Lumbini which regularly pollute the area. Unfortunately, some beggars irritate visitors by repeatedly asking for money. Most beggars stand
at the main entrance of the monastery and ask money from visitors. The LDT has yet not started a wellmanaged tour of Lumbini area. They should have a battery-powered van or bus, which should take the visitors and pilgrims for a Lumbini tour. It would be much better if a guide is accompanied the visitors and describing about the historical monuments of Lumbini. Very recently, this scribe met Kularaj Baral, managing director of Miracle Institute, Pokhara, who has just returned from Canada visit. “It was my official trip to Canada where I was staying in Vancouver. One fine morning I went to visit Stanley Park, where we were asked to get into a large, horsepulling chariot. I was surprised to get a wonderful chariot ride ---this was what I least expected in a city like Vancouver. About that time I remembered if a horse drawn chariot is possible in Vancouver then why not in Lumbini� he asked. I agree with Mr.Baral. It would be better if LDT immediately stops all kinds of vehicles inside the Lumbini premises and introduce horse-pulling chariots and battery-powered micro vans instead.
The visitors will have choice between a horse-pulling chariot and a batterypowered van to move around Lumbini. This facility is also necessary to stop any damaging effects of pollutions caused by vehicles. Although inside area of Lumbini is being developed according to the Master Plan, the surrounding area of Lumbini faces poverty, scarcity and acute unemployment. The Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation has
decided to work on a 10-year Master Plan to develop Lumbini as a pilgrimage hub and increasing the length of tourists stay. However, the plan does seem ok only in the paper. In reality, the local people of Lumbini live in poverty and their needs and demands are neither met nor heard by the government. Hotel entrepreneurs also don’t look happy in Lumbini. Due to lack of infrastructure and effective tour packages, most tourists hardly spend a day in Lumbini. When asked to a tour
Moreover, due to lackluster attitude of the successive governments, the development activities of Lumbini are awfully slow. Although the Master Plan of the development of Lumbini had begun in 1978, even after 39 years the development works is going on at the snail pace. Even conflicts among the Buddhist sects and monks have also been blamed to create
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A fabulous monastery built by South Korea.
operator in Bhairawa, he said, “Most of the tourists coming to Lumbini are brought by the Indian tour operators. Those tour operators first take tourists to Bodh Gaya, Sarnath and Kushinagar. On the last leg of the tour, the visitors are brought to Lumbini and Kapilbastu, where they don’t stay more than one day. The ministry of tourism is aware of this situation but does not act responsibly. I think our government is afraid of making India angry. What to speak about our government---I felt so low when India put a trade embargo against Nepal, but our political leaders in power could not speak a word against Indian bully ”.
their vegetables, poultry products and so on. Such enhanced economic activities will definitely improve financial condition of the people in and around the Lumbini area.
A group of pilgrims takes a photo beside Ashoka pillar.
This scribe does not want Gautam Buddha International Airport also meet a similar fate that Pokhara International airport has met. Much has been spoken and written about Pokhara Regional International Airport in media, but in reality, nothing has happened. The actual construction work of Pokhara
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hitches. The government must rise above the party politics and take the issue of Lumbini development with due seriousness. Development of the Lumbini pilgrimage site should not the only issue. The government must also think how the living standard of the local people who live around Lumbini can be uplifted. The local people’s participation in development activities and creating more job opportunities are utmost necessary. Without improving the living standard of the local people of Lumbini, a real development of Lumbini will never be possible. Gautam Buddha International Airport The story of Gautam Buddha Airport is no different from the development of Lumbini. The construction work of Gautam Buddha airport should have been completed in 2017; but it is still far from completion. At different developmental stage, corruptions have drastically slowed down the steady development of the project. A severe dispute over payments and illegal appointment of subcontractor had halted the work for a long time. Now it is said that the airport will come into operation until 2019. Hotel entrepreneurs and the entire people of the region believe that the operation of Gautam Buddha International Airport will change the face of Lumbini. However, all major projects in Nepal whether it is hydropower projects, Melamchi water supply, Pokhara International Airport and so on and so forth have been infected with corruption virus. In a situation like this many people are quite skeptic about the completion of Gautam
Author sits near the Chinese monastery. Buddha International Airport even in 2019. Gautam Buddha International Airport is the most important project for the people of this region. With the completion of the airport, Lumbini will be connected to the world directly. The pilgrims will not come to Lumbini via India, where they visit other Buddhist shrines before coming to Lumbini. With the completion of the airport, inflow of Buddhist pilgrims will definitely soar to a great height. Hotels, lodges and restaurants will thrive and local people will be able to sell their products of touristic interest. Once the airport comes into operation, it will open up the window of job opportunities for people. Most importantly many local resources will be exploited which were due to lack of a potent market not used before. Not only hotel entrepreneurs but also many farmers will find extended market for
Regional International Airport had begun in 1989. Today even after 29 years, there is no airport in sight. In the course of time, many governments came and gone, but the construction of Pokhara Regional International Airport has not seen a light of the day. Political leaders always tried to influence people by their political rhetoric and gimmicks. I hope nothing like this will happen with Gautam Buddha International Airport and by 2019 the airport will come into commercial operation. Photos by: LB Thapa
LB THAPA is a regular contributor of Food & Wine Magazine
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Become the Extraordinary:
Set the Standard for Professional Etiquette at Meetings
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- Dr. Marc Clark
hile traveling I fill my time with reading a wide variety of books, magazines and newspapers. I’ve become startled by the number of articles and commentaries on the lack of politeness and etiquette that seems to be becoming part of our every-day lives. Think about it. What becomes acceptable in society then becomes the norm.
so I encounter many different people. Nowadays it seems people are trying to beat you into the parking lots, the parking spaces, in the mall doors, so they can get there ahead of you. Not only do they not hold the door open for a person coming in behind them, you never hear a ‘thank you,’ or a ‘have a nice day’ from a customer. Life has just gotten so fast paced, there seems to be no room for manners anymore.”Can you relate? I think we all can.
Politeness (civility, courtesy, respect) is defined as behaving in a socially acceptable way with proper manners and etiquette. As an example, standing up to greet a guest as they enter a room or keeping your elbows off the dinner table while eating.
Let’s now switch tracks. Have you ever observed poor or unacceptable behavior/ etiquette during a business meeting? I can honestly say I have. Many don’t realize that their professional etiquette at a business meeting is being evaluated by all in attendance. Business meetings are one arena in which poor etiquette can have long tern negative effects on ones’ future success. When one improves their business meeting etiquette, one automatically improves their professional image and behaviors in all other areas of their lives.
One story about people behavior, that I came across, really got me thinking about today’s cultural thinking towards etiquette.A woman working retail during a holiday season shared the following:“I work in part-time retail,
In “The Essentials of Business Etiquette” by Barbara Pachter, there are recommendations on how to improve one’s business etiquette to build relationships with customers, clients, peers, co-workers and colleagues. In the business world, it is these people that can influence your success or failure. Rules to apply when it comes to business meeting etiquette: • Circulate among the other participants before the meeting begins. When the opportunity becomes available, introduce yourself to others. If there are new faces attending the meeting, assist making introductions, starting with the highest-ranking person in the room. • Choose your words wisely. When speaking, commenting, sharing information, say what you need to say in as few words as necessary. Avoid covering unnecessary information and idle chatter. Don’t repeat yourself.
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• Extend a hand in greeting. In doing so you make yourself approachable. If you are the host of the meeting, or the senior person attending, you should extend your hand first (regardless of gender). • Know the dress code and present yourself accordingly. Attire can either boost a person’s professional reputation or lessen from his or her credibility. Be sure that clothing chosen falls within meeting/company guidelines. • When being introduced, always stand. Standing helps establish your presence to either and individual or a group. Standing prevents others from ignoring you. • Do your homework. Come prepared. Know what the premise of the meeting is and what your part in the meeting will be. Be informed will help you ask or answers questions. • Be punctual. Don’t run late. Show respect for the host and other people’s time.
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• Sit professionally. Adjust your chair setting (if the chair adjusts) so that you are at an equal height with everyone else at the table. Avoid crossing legs
because it can be distracting or even too sexy for a professional setting. • Make your comments meaningful. Provide a meaningful/beneficial comment at the beginning of the meeting so people know you are there. Speak at the proper volume level, with good articulation, pitch, voice inflection and speed of wording. • Know the unwritten speaking rules. It is not professional or polite to interrupt others while they are
speaking, however, you might have to interrupt at some point in order to be heard or to contribute. Know the unwritten speaking rules/policies prior to attending to the meeting. • What about eating? Unless it is a breakfast, lunch or dinner meeting, avoid bring food to the table. Opening food/snack wrappers can create disruptive noises. Food can also give off smells. Stay to coffee, tea, softdrinks and water (and remember not to chew your ice).
• Ask relevant questions. If you have questions, ask them at the appropriate
time (don’t store them up until the end of the meeting, unless this is requested by the meeting host) and finally, if you are the host of the meeting-
Here’s a challenge: Set the standard for meeting etiquette at your workplace and see if people don’t begin to relate to you differently. No doubt they will.
• Have a structured agenda to follow. Begin on time, end on time, stay on point (distribute an agenda and meeting focus points). If you digress, steer back to the right direction. End by reviewing main points, set goals and measurements for next meeting. Follow-up.
Adapted from “The Essentials of Business Etiquette” by Barbara Pachter
Dr. Marc Clark is a renowned personality in both Management and Hospitality sectors. He is President & CEO of SmartBizzOnline. com. He is a published award winning author, international lecturer, and Senior Advisor with GATE since 2008. He holds the hospitality designations of CHA3Diamond, CHRE, CHE, CHO, CHDT, CHT and CHS. mdclark@kih.net
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• Keep cell phone out of sight. Do not place cell phone on the meeting table. It can be distracting if it starts buzzing, lighting up or making any sort of sound. Always put on mute and/or vibrate. If you must absolutely take a call, be respectful to others and leave the room quietly (also return quietly, opening and closing the meeting room door).
Recipes
Chicken and Spinach Terrine
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Ingredients 2(about 120 gms) 1large sprig 1tsp ¼ tsp To taste 2 2 cloves 1 120 gms 2 tsp 2 tsp 2 tsp
Chicken Breast Fresh Tarragon Grated Lemon Rind Salt Ground Black Pepper Beetroot Garlic Chopped Onion Spinach, Washed and Steamed Dry White Wine Powder Gelatin Chopped Parsley
Method • Blanch the spinach in a large pan of boiling water for a minute then drain and refresh it. After that, blend it in a food processor. • Place the chicken breast in a sauce pan together with the tarragon sprig, lemon rind, some water, seasoning as per taste. • Then simmer the chicken for 20 minutes. • After that chop the chicken and process it to a smooth paste in a food processor. Dissolve the gelatin to the chicken paste. • Now layer the chicken and spinach paste and beetroot in the setting tray and leave it for about 15 minutes to chill and set. • Serve the terrine garnished as shown in the picture.
Recipes
Alderwood Smoked Salmon Timbales Ingredients 50 gms ¼ 2 cloves 1 1 2 tsp 1/8 To taste 2 tsp 1 tsp 1-2 ml 80 gms 20 gms 1 4 tsp 20 gms
Smoked Salmon Onion, chopped Garlic Lemon, sliced Bay Leaf Sunflower Oil Salt Black Pepper Powder Gelatin Chives Dry White Wine Basa Fillet Spinach Egg White Double Cream Parmesan Cheese
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Method • Blanch the spinach, drain it and blend in a food processor. • Place pieces of basa fish in a pan and sauté it with chives, onion, garlic, bay leaf, black pepper, salt & dry white wine. Simmer the fish for 8-10 minutes. • Then cool it and blend it in a food processor. • Dissolve the gelatin to the fish paste. Now layer the smoked salmon, spinach, fish paste into three layers and leave it about 10-12 minutes to chill and set. • Meanwhile, mix the egg white, double cream, lemon juice and chives in a bowl to make the sauce. • Bake the grated parmesan in a ring shape as a cracker. • Serve the timbales with lemon cheese sauce and parmesan cracker on top. • Give final touch with alderwood flavored smoke on the dish using a smoking gun.
Recipes
Fish Tower with Aligned Prawns Ingredients 120 gms 80 gms 30 gms 1 tbsp ¼ tsp 1 50 gms 20 ml ½ tsp
Basa Fillet Salami Prawn Chopped Onion and Garlic Parsley Lemon Potato Apple Juice Rosemary
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Method • First of all, for the potato fondant, peel the potato and seal it with rosemary. • Then put the potato with apple juice in the oven along for 45 minutes. • After that make spinach puree and carrot coulis. • Grill the fish fillet, prawn and salami. Make a small dices of carrot, beetroot to make a salsa. • Whisk the cream and add lemon chives for the sauce. • Now make a layer of fish and salami. • Serve the dish with apple fondant potato, carrot coulis, spinach puree and garnish it with the salsa and chives.
Recipes
Ingredients 250gms 200ml 2 For garnishing 4 115 gms 115 gms
Strawberries, hulls removed Double Cream Meringue Nests Fresh Mint Egg Whites Caster Sugar Icing Sugar
Method • Puree half of the strawberries in a blender and chop the remaining strawberries. Whip the double cream until stiff peaks is formed then fold in the strawberries puree and crushed meringue. • Again, fold in the remaining chopped strawberries. • Garnish with strawberries and mint.
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Healthy Living
Moderate drinking can lower risk of heart attack, says study
Drinking in moderation helps protect heart, with study finding it lowers risk of many conditions compared with not drinking
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oderate drinking can lower the risk of several heart conditions, according to a study that will further fuel the debate about the health implications of alcohol consumption.
The study of 1.93 million people in the UK aged over 30 found that drinking in moderation - defined as consuming no more than 14 units of alcohol a week for women and 21 units for men - had a protective effect on the heart compared with not drinking. Previous studies have suggested that alcohol has a positive effect on the levels of good cholesterol in the blood and proteins associated with blood clotting. The research, published in the British Medical Journal, found that moderate drinkers were less likely than nondrinkers to turn up at their doctor with angina, heart attack, heart failure, ischaemic stroke, circulation problems caused by a build-up of fat in the arteries and aortic aneurysm than non-drinkers.
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But the research found that heavy drinking - more than 14 units for women and 21 units for men - increased the risk of heart failure, cardiac arrest, ischaemic stroke and circulation problems caused by fatty arteries.
Healthy Living
Let new beginnings signify new chapter filled with pages of success and happiness, written by the ink of hard work and intelligence.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2018
Healthy Living The authors of the study, from the University of Cambridge and University College London, welcomed the findings but cautioned: “While we found that moderate drinkers were less likely to initially present with several cardiovascular diseases than nondrinkers, it could be argued that it would be unwise to encourage individuals to take up drinking as a means of lowering their risk. “This is because there are arguably safer and more effective ways of reducing cardiovascular risk, such as increasing physical activity and smoking cessation, which do not incur increased risks of alcohol-related harm such as alcohol dependence, liver disease and cancer.” Moderate alcohol consumption has long been associated with a lower risk of heart disease compared with abstinence or heavy drinking but the authors described their study as the most comprehensive to date on the relationship. Non-drinkers were separated from former and occasional drinkers. With previous studies, concerns have been raised that people who have stopped drinking due to illness could have skewed results among non-drinkers.
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An independent review of evidence, which formed the basis for last year’s change in the official advice on alcohol consumption, lowering the recommended limit for men from 21 units to 14, making it the same as the guideline for women, found that the benefits of drinking for heart health only apply for women aged 55 and over and
the greatest benefit is seen when they limit their intake to about five units a week, equivalent to about two standard glasses of wine. The new study found that heavy drinking resulted in an increased risk of a range of heart diseases compared with moderate drinking, but carried a lower risk of heart attack and angina. The authors cautioned that this did not mean they were less likely to experience a heart attack in future, just that they were less likely to present these conditions at first diagnosis, compared with moderate drinkers. Also, as the study is observational, no firm conclusions can be drawn about cause and effect. One unit of alcohol is about equal to half a pint of ordinary strength beer, lager
or cider (3.6% alcoh ol by volume) or a small pub measure (25ml) of spirits. There are one and a half units of alcohol in a small glass (125ml) of ordinary strength wine (12% alcohol by volume). Dr James Nicholls, the director of research and policy development at Alcohol Research UK, said that given the increased risk of other health conditions from drinking, moderate alcohol consumption within existing guidelines was unlikely to curtail or lengthen life expectancy overall. “While the findings provide convincing evidence for protective effects, the authors sensibly point out that this doesn’t mean it would be wise to take up drinking in order to lengthen one’s life - not least because any protective effects tend to be cancelled out by even occasional bouts of heavier drinking,” he said. “There are better ways to strengthen the heart such as exercise and good diet. All things being equal - and given the increased risk of suffering other health conditions linked to any amount of alcohol consumption - if you drink within the existing guidelines it is unlikely that alcohol will either lengthen or shorten your life.” Source: www.theguardian.com
MIND BLOWING Ingredients 30 ml 30 ml 10 ml 60 ml 60 ml 1 tbsp 1 tbsp 1 tbsp
Khukri Rum Brandy Lime Juice Apple Juice White Grape Juice Herbs and Spices Chopped Fresh Fruits Honey
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Method ● Add all ingredients into a boiler pot. ● Boil in slow heat. ● Add chopped fresh fruits. ● Serve in a brandy balloon. ● Garnish with cinnamon stick with other herbs.
CO-KEY Ingredients 50 ml 10 ml 15 ml 1 pinch 60 ml To top Few cubes
Scotch Peach Schnapps Lemon Juice Salt Guava Juice Coke Ice
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Method ● Add ice into a mixing glass. ● Pour all ingredients in a shaker with few cubes of ice. ● Shake well and strain into a pilsner glass. ● Fill with coke and garnish with lemon and other fruits.
Mandarin Mash-Up Ingredients 60 ml 1 90 ml 10 ml 5 ml 1 sprig Few cubes
Vodka Fresh Orange with Peel Orange Juice Peach Syrup Lemon Juice Fresh Rosemary Ice
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Method ● Muddle vodka with orange peel. ● Add all the ingredients in a shaker with few cubes of ice and shake gently. ● Strain into a chilled champagne glass. ● Garnish with orange peel and marigold flower.
RUM CHA Ingredients 45 ml 30 ml Bitter 60 ml 60 ml 5 ml Few cubes
White Rum Home Made Ginger and Honey Apple Juice Kombucha Grenadine Ice
Method ● Add all ingredients except grenadine in a shaker with 3-4 cubes of ice and shake gently. ● Swirl the hurricane glass with grenadine. ● Add crushed ice in the glass. ● Strain shaken ingredients into the glass. ● Garnish with orange peel and pomegranate.
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Cocktails Courtesy Kathmandu Flair Bartending Gyaneshwor Chowk, Kathmandu Contact: 977 1 4416496 kathmandufba@gmail.com
Talking Food on Movies
Dali Khanal
Comme un chef is a 2012 French comedy film, directed by Daniel Cohen and starring Jean Reno and Michaël Youn. The film had its International premiere at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival in 2012. Jacky Bonnot (Michaël Youn) is a young Frenchman living with his pregnant girlfriend (Raphaëlle Agogué). After being fired from a restaurant, he becomes worried about the birth of his child and decides to get any job he can despite his passion for haute cuisine. After accepting a job as a painter, he makes friends with the establishment’s cooks and helps them improve their menu. These improvements eventually reach the ears of Alexandre Lagarde (Jean Reno), who is also in a precarious situation: as the renowned chef of the Cargo Lagarde restaurant, he has to improve his entire menu. If he cannot achieve this, the place will lose a star from its rating and Stanislas Matter (Julien Boisselier) will convert it into a molecular kitchen, with Alexandre and all the cooks losing their jobs. Jacky initially rejects the offer to work with Alexandre, because the position is an unpaid internship, but after hesitation, he accepts. The next day, both Jacky and Alexandre start cooking together but as soon as they begin, Jacky’s finickiness and Alexandre’s stubbornness leads to an argument that results in Jacky being fired.
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Alexandre regrets his decision and sends someone to search and take Jacky back to the Cargo Lagarde ranks. They reconcile and start to plan improvements to the restaurant’s menu. As Jacky works as an unpaid intern, he lies to his girlfriend about searching for jobs. However, she goes to where he started
Comme un chef (Le Chef)
Genre: Food Movie/ Comedy
Released on: 2012
Directed by: Daniel Cohen
Language: French
Starcast: Jean Reno, Michaël Youn
as a painter and finds herself in the kitchen of the interns, who are having a video call with Jacky. She discovers him lying and their relationship breaks down. Alexandre offers him a glass of wine that Jacky accepts, and they keep tasting bottles of wine until both of them become slightly drunk. Alexandre tells Jacky that food critics that prefer molecular cuisine will be dining soon at his restaurant and it will result in a loss of one star from his restaurants rating.
Jacky, drunk, calls his friend Juan for help. Jacky plans to reconcile with his girlfriend with the help of Alexandre, but the plan fails as she gets mad at his clumsy proposal. Alexandre offers Jacky a room in his house to spend the night, where Alexandre tries to talk with his daughter who is resentful over her dad’s indifference to her thesis and degree. The movie is a complete package of French Cuisine. It’s a mouth watering movie for sure. We are presenting just one dish and its recipe out of numerous dishes shown in the movie.
Talking Food on Movies
Caramel Millefeuille For the pastry 250 gms Flour, plus extra for dusting 225 gms Cold butter Method ● Put the flour and a pinch of salt in the food processor. Turn it on and steadily pour in 150ml of water. When the dough comes together, cover it in cling film and chill for 20 mins. ● Lightly flour your surface and roll the dough into a 25cm circle. Put the butter in between two pieces of baking parchment and soften it by tapping it with a rolling pin. Cut the butter in half and repeat the process until the butter is pliable but still cold. Reshape to the size roughly of a postcard. ● Put the butter in the centre of the pastry and fold over the right and left sides of the circle, overlapping in the middle. Press the dough with your rolling pin to make it longer and then lightly mark into thirds. Fold the bottom third up to cover the middle third and the top third down. Seal the dough gently by pressing down on the edges with your rolling pin. Give the dough a quarter turn. ● Roll the dough out to a long rectangle (roughly 18 x 38cm), keeping the edges square and the sides straight. Mark the dough into thirds again, fold the bottom third up and the top third down. Seal the edges and give the dough a quarter turn. Repeat one more time, cover and chill for 20 mins. ● Repeat step four twice more, chilling each time. Chill for one hour before using.
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For Caramel Millefeuille Ingredients 400 gms Puff Pastry 30 gms Icing Sugar 500 ml Milk 2 tsp Vanilla Essence 100 g Caster Sugar 3 Eggs 50 g Plain Flour 300 ml Double Cream 200 gms Caster Sugar 50 gms Lightly Salted Butter 200 ml Double Cream Method ● Preheat the oven to 200°C. ● Cut the pastry into 18 equal sized rectangles and place on a lined baking sheet. Cover with a second sheet of baking paper and place a baking sheet on top. Transfer to the oven and bake for 15 to 20 minutes. Remove the top baking sheet and parchment, dust the pastry with icing sugar and then caramelise under the grill for 3 to 4 minutes. Set aside. ● Place the milk, vanilla essence in a pan and bring the milk to the boil. ● Place the eggs and the sugar and whisk together. Mix in the flour and then add the hot vanilla infused milk. Stir together and then return to the pan and bring back to the boil. Cook for 3 minutes, stirring constantly. Pour it into a flat dish and cover with cling film, pressing the cling film on to the surface of the mixture to prevent a skin forming. Chill in the fridge for 1 hour. ● Once chilled, whisk it until smooth. Whisk the double cream until thick and then fold into the mixture. Transfer to a piping bag and set aside. ● For caramel sauce, place the sugar in a frying pan and melt, without stirring, to form a caramel. Mix in the butter and the cream and then allow to cool. ● Pipe the cream mixture onto the pastry rectangles and then layer them on top of each other so that you have six double layers of pastry and cream. Top each one with a final piece of pastry and serve with the salted butter caramel sauce
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Flavor's Cafe and Restaurant
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Tibet Kitchen
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Blueberry Kitchen & Coffee Shop
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Speciality: Coffee/Snacks (Chicken Basket Wraps, S/W)
Speciality: Gyakok (Tibetan Cuisine)
Green Organic Cafe & Farmers Bar
Han Kook Sarang Korean Restaurant
Thamel, Kathmandu
Surya Moon Bistro
Jyatha, Thamel
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Epic Lounge
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Gaia Restaurant & Coffee Shop
Satghumti, Thamel, Kathmandu
Speciality: Eurasian Cuisine, Organic Coffee, Tea, Salads & Cakes
JP Road, Thamel, Kathmandu
977 1 4215726 Speciality: Indian, Chinese, Italian, Continental, Nepal (Organic Way) and Salad
Delima Garden Cafe
Roots Eatery
Freakstreet, Jhochhen
Om Bahal Just off Freakstreet
977 9801206111, 9803022596
977 1 4224111
facebook.com/epicloungenp
saranghankook@yahoo.com
Speciality: Chilli Buff Wrap, House Salad, Buff Burger, Special Soup Mo Mo
Speciality: Korean Dishes
D-Lunch Hut
dine@roots-eatery.com
The Oasis Cafe
Valley Express Restaurant
Jhochhen Tole, Kathmandu 23
Chakrapath, Kathmandu
Basundhara, Kathmandu, Nepal
Nayabazaar, Kathmandu
977 9841230526
977 1 4720451
977 1 4384282, 4388682
977 1 4385122
oasiscafe2001@yahoo.com
Maharajgunj, Kathmandu 977 1 4374956 Newroad, Kathmandu 977 1 4232051
Coffee Talk in Town
Koto Restaurant
Chitwan, Bharatpur
Cafe Tara
Kamalpokhari
Pulchowk, Lalitpur
Chakrapath, Kathmandu
977 1 4435172, 9849744604
977 1 5542936
977 1 9813574544
977 056 526615 WWW
www.valley.com.np facebook.com/ValleyXpress
Speciality: Japanese Food
Speciality: Fried Chicken & Chicken Items
Coffee Talk Chakrapath
Dining Park Restaurant & Lounge Bar Mid Baneshwor, Kathmandu
977 1 41225300
977 1 4486002, 4486003 WWW
www.diningpark.com.np
Saya Hello Cafe, Gazal Bar
Imago Dei Cafe Gallery
Bagbazar, Kathmandu
Nagpokhari Marg
977 1 4221558, 9863704796
977 1 4442464
Hospitality Training Centers Aagamaan Hotel Training Centre Gongabu Tel: 4352846, 9841293748
Gourment Hospitality and Training Institute Ringroad Tel: 14478534
Ace School of Tourism and HM Putalisadak, KTM Tel: 4786372/9841410854
Grand Advance Hotel Training centre Kalimati, KTM Tel: 4289384, 9803713854
Baber Mahal Vilas Tanka Prasad Sadak Tel: 14257655 Everest Academy New Baneshwor Tel: 4786372/9841410854
Hotel Khumjung and Hotel Management Training Chakrapath,KTM Tel: 14016111 International Hotel Training School Sinamangal,KTM Tel: 14483167
Everest International Hotel Training and Consultant University Path,KTM Tel: 14271005
International Institute of Hotel Management Lagankhel,Lalitpur oppo.to Patan hospital Tel: 5532667, 9841713981
Excel Academy of Tourism and HM New Baneshwor Tel: 4107055, 9841222058
Kantipur Hotel Training Centre Siddhidas Marga Tel: 14232674
Gateway Institute Pvt.Ltd Bagbazar, Bank Marg Tel: 9851064228
Kathmandu Flair Bartending Academy Gayenshwor Tel: 014416496, 9849884710
Global Institution of Hotel Management Shantinagar Gate Tel: 14621098
Kathmandu Institute of Hospitality Management Boudhanath Marg Tel: 14490466
Kathmandu Institute of Hospitality Management
Sahara Hotel Training Centre
Kupondol, Lalitpur
Bagbazar
Tel: 15523648
Tel: 4786372, 9841410854
Madison Multi Skill Development Center Chabahil-7, Kathmandu, Nepal
Shangrila Tourism and Hotel Training Centre Bhakti Thapa Sadak/ Baneshowr
Tel: 4461717, 9851098415, 9823558262
Tel: 14472553
Email: trainingmadison@gmail.com Web: www.madisonskill.com
Standard Tourism and Hotel Training Centr Pvt. Modern
Hotel Management
and
Tourism
Ltd
Technology and Training Centre
Putalisadak, KTM
Basundhara,KTM
Tel: 14419443
Tel: 14363215, 9851161573 Oasis Hotel Training Centre Boudhanath Marg Tel: 9803070654 Oriental Hospitality and Tourism Training centre
Victory International Hotel Training and Institute Om Complex, Ringroad Tel: 9801100126 Western Modern Hotel Training Center
New Baneshwor, opp.to everest hotel KTM
Gongabu
Tel: 14786801
Tel: 9841424630
Radisson Hotel Training Centre Kalimati, KTM Tel: 14472553
Wisdom Hotel training Centre Kalimati, KTM Tel: 014277104, 9818508317
Radisson Hotel Training Centre Sorhakhutte, Nayabazar marga Tel: 14384986
Restaurants of Pokhara Aankhi Jhyal Restaurant & Bar
Adrenaline Rush Nepal
Chipledhunga, Pokhara
Lakeside-6, Pokhara
977 61 464006
977 61 466663, 9816632097
977 61 460271, 466954
977 9846050100
aankhijhyalpokhara@gmail.com
Busy Bee Cafe
WWW
977 61 462640 beambeam2000@hotmail.com
info@adrenalinenepal.com
WWW
www.cafebusybee.com
Cafe Italiano
Lakeside-6, Pokhara
Basunhara park, Lakeside Pokhara
977 61 466271
977 61 467125, 467135
www.byanjan.com
Kathmandu Office
facebook.com/byanjanpokhara
977 1 4002077 WWW
Chilly Bar & Restaurant
Club Amsterdam Cafe Bar
Caffe Concerta Pizzeria Restaurant Lakeside, Pokhara 977 61 463529 EMAIL
Club Asia Restaurant & Bar
Dragon Chinese Restaurant
Lakeside, Pokhara
Lakeside, Pokhara
Lakeside-6, Pokhara
977 61 463614, 463163
977 61463427
977 61 462691
977 9849436179, 9816270694
chillybarrestaurant@gmail.com
Funky Salsa Restaurant & Bar Lakeside-6, Pokhara
clubamster1@yahoo.com
akshrestha72@yahoo.com
www.clubamsterdambar.com
Himalayan Thakali Kitchen & Japanese Hot Batch
iBlues Restro
Barahi Marg, Lakeside, Pokhara
977 61 464931
977 61 466772
Lake Valley Restaurant & Bar
Nayabazar, Pokhara-8
Lakeside, Pokhara-6
977 61 541639
977 61 464591
ibluesrestro@gmail.com
Love Kush Restaurant & Bar
Madhushala Restro Lounge Bar
Lazimpat, Kathmandu
Pokhara, Lakeside-6
977 61 463730, 465357
977 61 461999
ahariabcd@hotmail.com
www.paradisepokhara.com
Nepal Guest House Lakeside-6, Pokhara EMAIL
WWW
Speciality: Continental, Italian Food along with Exotic Cocktails & Selection of wines.
Thamel, 977 1 4700371
977 61 466271
shakardai12@gmail.com www.nepalguesthouse.com
977 61 463372, 466733
Lakeside-6, Pokhara EMAIL
Monsoon Bar & Grill Lakeside-6, Pokhara
Lakeside Pokhara
lavaenergy@gmail.com
New Billy Bunter's Restaurant & Bar
977 61 465271
Maya Restaurant.Pub. Cocktail Bar
WWW
Chaubdgurung@yahoo.com
977 61 4682818, 461477 EMAIL
WWW
info@pokharahotels.com www.pokharahotels.com
mayapub@hotmail.com
Once Upon A Time Restaurant EMAIL
info@lakevalley.com.np www.lakevalley.com.np
facebook.com/ibluesrestro
caffeconcerto@hotmail.com
www.cafeitaliano.com.np
Lakeside, Hallanchowk, Pokhara
WWW
WWW
nsdhakal@gmail.com
www.adrenalinenepal.com
Byanjan Grill
Lakeside Pokhara
WWW
Bella Napoli Restaurant & Bar
Pokhara
facebook.com/aankhijhyalpokhara
Almond's Cafe & Restaurant
Gaurighat Lakeside, Pokhara
Paradise Restaurant & Bar
Baidam, Lakeside, Pokhara-6
Lakeside, Pokhara
onceuponatimenepal@hotmail.com
977 61 462879
www.onceuponatimepokhara.com
paradisecafebar@gmail.com
Speciality: Italian, Indian and Nepali Cuisine
Sitdown Thakali Kitchen
Salt & Pepper (Expresso Cafe)
Barahi Chowk, Pokhara-6
Rice Bowl Restaurant & Bar
Lakeside, Pokhara
977 61 461756
Lakeside, Pokhara
977 61 463484 WWW
www.saltandpeppernepal.com
WWW
Pumpkins Restaurant & Shisha Bar
977 61 462163
Lakeside-6, Pokhara
www.ricebowlpokhara.com
977 9846612328, 9846382377 EMAIL
Taal Lounge Cafe Restaurant
WWW
The Lemon Trere
La Pizzeria Cafe & Bar
mypumpkins@live.com
Godfather's Pizzeria
Lakeside-6, Pokhara
Lakeside, Pokhara
Lakeside-6, Pokhara
977 61 461699, 462243
Lakeside-6, Pokhara
977 61 463246
977 61 463321, 9856029910
977 61 466501
hotelpeaceeye@gmail.com
WWW
www.peaceeye-guesthouse.com
www.lapizzeria.com.np
Speciality: Live Firewood Pizza,
godfatherspizzeria@gmail.com facebook.com/gfpizzeria
Italian, Continental & French cuisine
Bali's German Bakery Damside, Pokhara 977 61 466687 Camping Chowk 977 61 462556 New Road 977 61 531026
Madhushala Restro Lounge & Bar
Lakeside, Pokhara 977 61 461999 lavaenergy@gmail.com
Speciality: Oriental, Continental, Italian Food & Cocktail & Wines
Thakali Bhancha
Olive Cafe
Lakeside-6, Pokhara
Lakeside-6, Pokhara
977 61 462478
977 61 462575
info@thakali-bhanchha.com
olivecafepkr@gmail.com
Hotels of Nepal Dwarika's Hotel
Gokarna Forest Resort
Hotel Country Villa Pvt. Ltd
Rajnikunj, Thali, Gokarna
Thamel, Kathmandu
Nagarkot, Kavre
977 1 4479488
977 1 4451212
977 1 4700415, 4700684
977 1 6680127, 6680128
info@dwarikas.com
facebook.com/dwarikashotelkathmandu
Hotel Annapurna
Hotel Cosmic Pvt. Ltd
Battisputali, Kathmandu
reservation@gokarna.net
facebook.com/GokarnaForestResort1
Hotel Earth House
info@hotelcosmic.com facebook.com/hotelcosmicnepal
Hotel Gangjong (P) Ltd.
Hotel Goodwill
Durbar Marg, Kathmandu
Thamel, Kathmandu
Lazimpat, Kathmandu
Kanibahal
977 1 4221711
977 1 4418197, 4422982
977 1 4439888, 4433400
977 1 5544520, 5588406
gangjong@mos.com.np
facebook.com/HotelGoodwill
info@annapurna.com.np
facebook.com/HotelAnnapurnaOfficial
Hotel Greenwich Village
Hotel Harati
Tej Bhawan Uttardhoka
Kupondole, Lalitpur
977 1 5521780
977 1 4257907
977 1 4413374, 4412716
977 1 5523900
WWW
Hotel Lily (P.) Ltd.
WWW
WWW
WWW
Hotel Maharaja Palace
977 1 4212336
977 1 4486715
hotelthamellily@gmail.com www.hotelthamellily.com
WWW
kajibabu26@hotmail.com
WWW
Hotel Manang Thamel, Kathmandu 977 1 4700389 EMAIL
www.hotelkathmandugarden.com
Hotel Mandap
himalnet@mos.com.np www.hotelhimalaya.com.np
sales@roomandfood.com facebook.com/hotelmanang
Hotel Marshyandi
Hotel Mystic Buddha
Lazimpat, Kathmandu
Thamel, Kathmandu
Thamel, Kathmandu
Buddhanagar, Baneshwor
977 1 4410071
977 1 4700321, 4700435
977 1 4700105, 4700514
977 1 4785633/34, 9801067896
hmanaslu@mos.com.np
www.hotelmanaslu.com.np
hotelmandap.com.np facebook.com/hotelmandap
Hotel Prince
WWW
sales@hotelmarshyangdi.com
www.hotelmarshyangdi.com
Hotel Shahanshah International
info.mbhtl@gmail.com www.hotelmysticbuddha.com
Hotel Tibet
Nagarkot, Nepal
Pardi, Damside, Pokhara 17
Dhapasi, Kathmandu
Lazimpat, Kathmandu
977 1 6200646, 9851273081
977 61 464532
977 1 4355484, 4355487
977 1 4229085/6/7/8
info@hotelmysticmountain.com
hotelpokharaprinc3@gmail.com
www.hotelmysticmountain.com
htltibet@mail.com.np facebook.com/htltibet
Hotel Utse P. Ltd
Hotel Vaishali
Hotel Vajra
Thamel, Kathmandu
Jyatha, Kathmandu
Thamel, Kathmandu
Bijeshwori, Kathmandu
977 1 4700217
977 1 4228952, 4257614
977 1 4700847
977 1 4271545
Hotel View Bhrikuti
Hotel Yak & Yeti
Hyatt Regency Kathmandu
Arniko Highway, Jagati, Bhaktapur
Godavari
Durbarmarg, Kathmandu
Boudha, Kathmandu
977 1 6617645/46, 6619476
977 1 5560542, 5560471
977 1 4248999. 4240520
977 1 5171234
hotel.viewbhaktapur@gmail.com www.hotelviewbhaktapur.com
Kantipur Temple House
Hotel Kathmandu Garden
facebook.com/hotelheranya
977 1 4701264
Hotel View Bhaktapur
www.hotelharati.com.np
hotelheranya@yahoo.com
Tilganga
Hotel Tradition Pvt. Ltd.
WWW
Dhalko, Chhetrapati
Hotel Mystic Mountain
WWW
info@hotelharati.com.np
Z-Street, Thamel
Hotel Manaslu
Hotel Himalaya
Chhetrapati, Kathmandu
facebook.com/greenwichvillagehotel
Hotel Heranya
Kupondole, Height
WWW
info@hotelviewbhrikuti.com.np
www.hotelviewbhrikuti.com.np
Malla Hotel
sales@yakandyeti.com.np
www.yakandyeti.com
Noryang Hotel
sales.kathmanduhr@hyatt.com facebook.com/hyattregencykathmandu
Radisson Hotel
Jyatha, Kathmandu
Lainchaur, Kathmandu
Boudha, Kathmandu
Lazimpat, Kathmandu
977 1 4250131
977 1 4418383
977 1 4480485/86, 9818785954
977 1 4411818, 4423888
info@kantipurtemplehouse.com www.kantipurtemplehouse.com facebook.com/kantipurtemplehouse
mallahtlgrp@mos.com.np facebook.com/alfa.house.banquet
WWW
info@noryanghotel.com www.noryanghotel.com facebook.com/noryanghotel
radisson@radkat.com.np facebook.com/radissonhotelkathmandu
Hotels of Nepal Gaia Holiday Home Resort Marg, Dhulikhel, Nepal
Soaltee Crowne Plaza
977 11 4261633 EMAIL
City Office
WWW
Summit Hotel Kopundole Height, Lalitpur
New Baneshwor, Kathmandu
977 1 4273999
977 1 5555222
977 1 4780100, 4781010
crowneplaza@scp.com.np www.scp.com.np
WWW
977 11 4261633 info@gaiaholidayhome.com
Snow View Mountain Resort Dhulikhel
www.gaiaholidayhome.com
WWW
977 11 490725, 490125
facebook.com/gaiaholidayhome
Ace Hotel & Resort Group
WWW
977 1 490612 EMAIL
info@dwarikashimalayanshangrila.com
Hotel Khukuri
WWW
facebook.com/hotelshangrilakathmandu
Hotel Monal & Jorba Restaurant Lakeside-6, Pokhra 977 61 461459
WWW
uniquepokhara@gmail.com
www.crownhimalayas.com.np
Kotee Home Hotel
Landmark Forest Park Chitwan National Park, Chitwan
977 61 466760
977 61 4640089, 464009
977 56 580311, 580241
hoteltrekkers@gmail.com
Kathmandu Office
WWW
info@koteehomehotel.com
Kathmandu Office
www.koteehomehotel.com
977 1 4004707
www.atithiresort.com
Hotel Landmark
WWW
Hotel Trek-O-Tel
Temple Tree Resort And Spa
Lakeside-6, Pokhara
Lakeside-6, Pohara
Lakeside-6, Pokhara
977 1 463648, 464030
977 61 462908, 463096
977 61 464996, 463419, 461877
977 61 465819
info@hoteldandelion.com
Kathmandu Office
www.hoteldandelion.com
977 1 4004707
WWW
trekotel@acehotels.wlink.com.np
Kathmandu Office
www.nepalshotel.com
977 1 4215952
hotel@landmarkpokhara.com
The Sacred Valley Inn
WWW
Moonlight Resort
Hotel Family & Restaurant
Lakeside - 6, Pokhara
Lakeside-6, Pokhara
Lalupatemarg, Lakeside, Pokhara
977 61 465708, 466041
977 61 461792, 464369
977 61 465704, 464877, 462501
977 61 464074
info@hotelhimalayaninn.com www.hotelhimalayaninn.com
WWW
sacredvalleypokhara@hotmail.com
info@ehhnepal.com
akshrestha72@yahoo.com
www.sacredvalleyin.com
Kathmandu Grand Hotel
Jungle Safari Resort
Hotel Hermitage
Lakeside-6, Pokhara
Chaksibarimarg, Thamel
Sauraha Chitwan National Park
Lazimpat, Kathmandu
977 61 465708, 466041
977 1 4700694, 4701483
977 056 580400, 580399
977 056 580090, 580120
info@hotelhimalayaninn.com www.hotelhimalayaninn.com
WWW
kathmandugrandhotel@gmail.com www.kathmandugrandhotel.com
WWW
info@junglesafariresort.com www.junglesafariresort.com
WWW
Hotel Nagarkot Holiday Inn
Hotel Marigold
hermitage@mail.com.np www.hermitagechitwan.com facebook.com/hermitagechitwan
Hotel Darbar
Shankarapur-3, Kathmandu
Nagarkot, Nepal
Nagarkot, Nepal
Pushpalal Chowk, Nepalgunj
977 9849890580
977 1 6680096
977 1 6680029, 6680070
977 081 551486, 551499
hotelheavenhill@gmail.com
nagarkotholidayinn@gmail.com
www.hotelheavenhill.com
Hotel Orchid
WWW
www.templetreenepal.com
Lakeside-6, Pokhara
WWW
hotelmarigold5@gmail.com www.hotelmarigold.com.np
WWW
facebook.com/hotelheavenhill
www.landmarkforest.com
Lakeside-6, Pokhara
Heaven Hill Hotel & Resort
WWW
kbpariyar@hotmail.com
www.hotelkhukuripokhara.com
www.facebook.com/chitwanhotel
info@hotelshangrila.com www.hotelshangrila.com
977 61 464528
Hotel Himalayan Inn
WWW
Lazimpat, Kathmandu 977 1 4412999
Lakeside - 6, Pokhara
Hotel Himalayan Inn
Dhulikhel
Shangri - La Hotel
977 61 462110, 461540
Atithi Resort & Spa
WWW
The Dwarika's Himalayan Shangri - La Village Resort Pvt. Ltd.
Lakeside-6, Pokhara
Hotel Dandelion
www.theeveresthotel.com
Lakeside-6, Pokhra
WWW
WWW
sales@theeveresthotel.com
977 61 462300, 462301
977 1 4002077
WWW
Central Lakeside, Pokhara
977 1 4700881/882
ambassador@ambassador.com.np
www.summit-nepal.com
Lakeside, Pokhara Kathmandu Office
977 1 4410432/01, 4414432
Hotel Trekkers Lodge
City Office Pyaphal Tole 977 11 2010428 rannu50@gmail.com
Crown Himalayas
Kathmandu Office: Hotel Ambassodor, Kathmandu Club Himalaya Nagarkot EMAIL
summit@wlink.com.np facebook.com/summithotelpatan
Jyatha, Thamel, Kathmandu EMAIL
The Everest Hotel
Tahachal, Kathmandu
info@hoteldarbar.com www.hoteldarbar.com facebook.com/hoteldarbarnepalgunj
Fish Tail Lodge
Glacier Hotel & Spa
Dahlia Boutique Hotel Pokhara
Shivalaya marga , Lakeside -6
Lakeside, Pokhara
Gaurighat, Lakeside-6, Pokhara
Lakeside, Pokhara
977 61 466697
977 61 465071
977 61 463722
977 61 466505
info@hotelorchidnepal.com www.hotelorchidnepal.com facebook.com/hotelorchid
WWW
info@glacierboutique.com www. glacierboutique.com facebook.com/ hotelGlacierPokhara
WWW
www.dahliahotel.com facebook.com/dahliapokhara