With regional flavours and Ayurvedic goodness, not to mention proud splashes of the tricolour, chefs are offering a range of meals and desserts this Independence Day to help you celebrate all things desi
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Healthy tricolour bowls
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This healthy subscription-based cloud kitchen is creating colourful bowls loaded with nutritious goodness for Independence Day. Their menu features a wide range of meal bowls, salads and smoothie bowls that are ideal for people looking for healthy, gluten-free or vegan options. They are introducing special items for the weekend such as AB’s Favourite Bowl that packs the goodness of saffron-hued wok-tossed schezwan tofu, offering it with some basil brown rice, and salt and pepper steamed bok choy to get the colours right.
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WHERE: Nutridock Kitchen
WHEN: All day
PRICE: Rs 350 onwards
TO ORDER: Via Swiggy and Zomato
Thali bajao
Via Bombay has an interesting Thali festival with desi favourites from all over the country. There are dishes like mutter paneer, dhokla, Marwari karari bhindi, dal wada for vegetarians; murg tikka, gavran chicken curry, chicken Chettinad, chicken rassa for chicken lovers and rogan josh, Sindhi mutton, kheema samosa, and mutton rassa for hardcore mutton lovers. Every thaali comes with a tirange ka meetha.
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WHERE: Via Bombay
WHEN: August 15 to 20, 12 PM-11 PM
PRICE: Rs 400 onwards
TO ORDER: 67099988
Shades of love!
Get into celebration mode with the patriotic flavours of Le Cafe’s tricolour waffle, available at a one-day special price of R75 today.
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WHERE: Le Cafe
WHEN: 11 AM–4 PM
PRICE: Rs 75
TO ORDER: 67099977 or via Swiggy and Zomato
Binge on healthy treats
Sheetal Bhatt, a certified Ayurvedic philosopher and specialist has started a one-of-a-kind A2 milk cafe in the city that serves Ayurvedic and sattvic meals. To celebrate Independence Day, the cafe is offering dishes that follow the Ayurvedic principles and are good for your mind and body, like orange carrot-infused idli, white dhokla and green moong dal dhokla. A 15 per cent discount on the total bill is being offered to those who visit the outlet.
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WHERE: G.O.D Cafe by Harrit Dairy Farms
WHEN: 9 AM-11 PM
PRICE: Rs 500
TO ORDER: 9820084100
Happiness by the kilo
Multiply your happiness with some rich Mughlai eats from Karim’s. This Independence Day, the original joint from Jama Masjid, Delhi-6, has introduced its most loved classics like mutton qorma, mutton jahangiri, biryanis and more—all priced by the kilo.
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WHERE: Karim’s, Bandra West
WHEN: August 15 onwards, 12.30 PM-1 AM
PRICE: Rs 999 onwards
TO ORDER: 7208656257
Daawat-e-azaadi!
The Bombay Canteen’s Independence Day Daawat box comes in a pack of two and serves up to three people. The meal includes dishes such as chickpeas sundal, tendli foogath, Assamese dali, saag and other dishes that bring together local flavours of the country. For this seventh edition of their Independence Day Daawat, the Lower Parel restaurant has joined hands with the Naandi Foundation, a social sector organisation that helps independent farmers rehabilitate their ecosystem and create a more sustainable livelihood through farming.
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WHERE: The Bombay Canteen
WHEN: 12 PM-10 PM
PRICE: Rs 2,300 on pick-up, and Rs 2,500 for deliveries
TO ORDER: www.thebombaycanteen.com/pages/independence-day-daawat
Old and new
Doused in nostalgia, chef Devansh Jhaveri’s Your Place or Mine Independence Day special cheesecake comes in tricolour flavours—Fanta (orange), original (white) and Sprite (green). You can buy a nine-inch cake at a 15 per cent discount, a seven-inch cake at a 10 per cent discount and a four-inch one at a five per cent discount.
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WHERE: Your Place or Mine
WHEN: All day
PRICE: Rs 475 onwards
TO ORDER: 7977052064