The secrets of a good food delivery mechanism

Food service industry has become quite competitive. Multiple food outlets are opening up every day and two of the many things that you should make sure to match the fast pace of the food service industry are: an online order platform and a delivery service!

We have several South Indian as well as North Indian restaurant in Delhi which are popular, obviously for their food, but especially for their excellent delivery service. Here's a list of some of the important things to remember,  which are elements of a good delivery mechanism.

•Timely: The first and the most important thing a  customer expects out of a food delivery is its speed. Nothing impresses us like a fast delivery. In those waiting hours, when we are done ordering the food online or over the phone, every second passing by feels like an hour. So, when you're establishing a delivery network, make sure you have enough people to assist it. Some of the delivery restaurants in saket  even come up with slogans like "20 minutes delivery" and I believe it is an excellent way to make your customers fall for you!

•Appearance: The sight of the food on the door should be pleasing to the eyes. That would raise the excitement levels of the customer who's ordered it. Make sure your delivery boy has a special sealed storage system in his bike so that even heavy rainfall or excessive heat won't spoil the taste as well as the look of the entire package!

•POS: Some customers choose cash on delivery mode, but realize that they're short of cash only after the delivery is made. It's wise to make your delivery boys carry POS systems with them for it might solve the problems of the customers. They'd be happy and relieved to see that the delivery carries a back-up plan.

And that's quite enough to bring smiles on the faces of your customers! They're not too demanding!

Common Indian Cooking Styles

Welcome to the food paradise! India is a land of varied tastes and flavours with the flavours that vary with different cultures and regions. Many might not know this but the country has some 35% of the people that are strictly vegetarians and there are roughly 30% that are regular meat eaters, states the top North Indian restaurant in Delhi.

It might be interesting to note that the tastes and preferences vary highly with the changing geographies along with the climatic conditions. With such an immersive variety that the Indian food offers, it in fact is imperative to have a look at the common cooking styles that Indians have:

-Roasting Dry Spices

Spices such as garam masala, ground cumin, coriander seeds and other curry spices are roasted dry in a frying pan. This is one of the common practices when preparing north Indian cuisine in Delhi or any household. Once the frying pan or the iron girdle is preheated on a medium flame, the spices are added and are continuously stirred until the spices turn a few shades darker.

-Adding Seasoning to the Dals (cereals)

Commonly known as tarka, some oil (ghee) is added to a pan followed by masalas like mustard seeds, cumin, chopped onion and garlic, chillies and heeng (asafoetida). Then these are cooked and stirred for some one minute until the mustard seeds start popping.

-Grinding Masalas

It is one of the ways we store our spices. We use a coffee grinder or a specific spice grinder to powder spices like garam masala, turmeric and red chillies amongst others, explains a top North Indian restaurant Dhaba By Claridges. 

-Cooking in Tandoors

Exclusive and unique to Indian cooking is tandoori cooking style. Now that meat, seafood and chicken is cooked in Tandoors, tandoor cooking has become a significant style of cooking.

Round off your meal with Mukhwaas!

The North Indian cuisine is known for its elaborate multi course meals. The fare, fit for the royalty, includes various shades of flavours and aromas that will have your senses enamoured. Before the common folk admired and adapted the royal salver into their humble daily lives, there were elaborate courses befitting, seasons, moods, main course’s preparation method, time of the meal and even the digestive system.

One such small ritual in this imperial meal was Mukwaas-- a spoonful of sweet and aromatic flavours which disentangle your senses from the rich and spice laden flavours, refreshes the mouth and sets the digestive juices roiling. This unique course in the meal is now usually limited to just fennel seeds, but did you know there were over 100 recipes for that, says a chef at a popular restaurant in Saket. Here are a few samples.

All-in-one

Take 1 portion of roughly shredded betel nut leaves to this add ¼ portion of dhana dal, roasted fennel seeds, sugar coated fennel seed, dry dates finely chopped, sweet supari and rose sherbet each. Now take 1 portion of fresh shredded coconut half of which can be coloured with permitted food colours and add it to the mixture. Finally, put in around 2 teaspoons of ground cardamom. Mix all this together and store in an airtight container. North Indian restaurants saket say that it has a shelf life as long as one year if handled properly.

All purpose Mukhwaas

 Betel nut and supari aren’t everyone’s favourite. Besides, children should avoid such ingredients. So this recipe uses healthy ayirvedic medicines which are good for digestion, cures seasonal coughs and tatse good. take 1 portion of fennel seeds, carom seeds, mulethi powder and dried mint leaves. To this add sea salt according to your taste and 1 tsp of cloves. Now take the whole mixture and coarse grind it in a mixer.

3 Best Restaurants in Delhi Serving the Most Authentic Cuisine

It is indeed surprising that the most appealing and prestigious restaurants in New Delhi do not, in fact, serve Indian food while Japanese, Italian, French and Chinese restaurants dominate the list of best restaurants in Delhi. That is not to say that food native to India is dead though. Worldwide Indian favorites such as Tandoori Chicken have their history intact in the kitchens of New Delhi, and are still recreated with astounding innovation and experimentation with different herbs and spices native to India. Dhaba by Claridges is one of the best restaurants in Delhi that tries to tweak traditional classics by modern culinary methods.

We bring you the best restaurants for local food and other Indian cuisines in New Delhi:

 

 1.    Dum Pukht

Dum Pukht specializes in Awadhi cuisine native to Lucknow. Meats, herbs and spices are placed in a pot sealed with dough after which the contents of the pot are slow-cooked over a low flame for hours. The meat cooks in its own nutritive juices, soaking the flavors of the seasoning.  The resulting soft and savory non-vegetarian delight is offered as a specialty at the restaurant that named itself after the divine dish.

2.    Dhaba by Claridges

Specializing in North Indian cuisine, the opulent restaurant is themed after a quintessential road-trip through Northern India. Dhaba by Claridges tries to recreate an ideal dhaba experience for its customers who like to indulge in North Indian food on roadside eateries. It offers a number of rustic dishes including Kanastari Baingan, Dhaba Chilli Chicken, Balti Meat and Amritsari Tawa Chaap. Its rather odd ambience is what drives tourists and locals to experience their traditional food native to North India.

3.    Karim's

The restaurant serves up authentic Mughlai cuisine that would take you back to the imperial kitchens of the ancient Mughal Empire. Karim’s is a quite a popular eatery in New Delhi that has recently spread out to new locations. The restaurant’s century- old original store in Old Delhi nonetheless remains to be the ultimate destination for domestic food explorers and tourists alike. Famous local dishes offered by Karim’s feature Mutton Burra Kebabs and the much fabled Tandoori Chicken.

Ugly veggies for delight!

That a restaurant menu is laden with all the delicacies which a human would like to feast upon is no hidden thing. But that the same menu houses some crappy (read: revolting) a dish too surely is. And that is probably because no one ever brings themselves to order those. Why? Because they are a tad too, well, boring. And hideous to taste buds. 

Here are some dishes that north Indian restaurant in Delhi that sound hideous or maybe even look hideous. But just a mouthful of it will leave you revelling in its delectable flavour. 

• Eggplant: The name in itself is weird enough to compel people to think how awkward the taste will be. True, it is unsightly (for the use of a better word!), but dig into it and you will know that its taste is not. An eggplant has savoury vegetables filled inside; it’s only when you will split it open that you will know how magical the taste is. It is marinated for some time before being put on coal stove in an iron utensil. 

• Pumpkin: Evokes a deadly, ugly image, right? This sweet and sour, tangy veggie will surely leave you up for more helpings. Only the name sounds retarded; if cooked correctly it is good enough for you to demand more of it. Always some more!

•  Zucchini: Evokes childhood memories when moms would fill in the tiffin boxes with the unpleasant vegetable and would snub when the tiffin would come back untouched and uneaten. Just a mouthful of it at Dhaba by Claridges Saket will revamp those memories forever. Yes, taste the veggie at DBC, replete with garam masala and it will be the show-stopper amidst all the dishes on the table. You will be surprised to find yourself licking your fingers over Zuchini. Yes, sure you will!

Special Navaratri Menu at Dhaba By Claridges

Were you going nuts, thinking you will have to be on a soul-less and colorless ‘diet’, to be at par on spiritual days of navratri? Well, to my understanding there’s certainly nothing wrong in fasting all the while, indeed i would say you can stretch a bit and delight your taste buds with wide array of scrumptious dishes. Sounds weird?? Yes, even i agree!  If i would have had come across something like this in navaratri, would have reacted in the same way! But …good is news that keeping all your hunger pangs satiated with delicious dishes, one of the best north indian restaurant in delhi, Dhaba by Claridges has come up with something special as always. 

This time, this remarkable delighter of north indian cuisine in delhi, have come up with a special menu, named as navaratri specials, and will be served to the diners here at Dhaba till 2nd of October. So those who just can’t resist without good food, but have dared to do things differently by fasting throughout navrtri, no worries!

The special menu at Dhaba entails Aloo sabut dane ki tikki, tawa arbi, dahi aloo, kache kele ka kofta, jeera sendha namak ka pulao, samak chawal, singhade aate ki puri, kheere ka raita, makhana sabiut dane ki kheer. 

My God! This is crazy menu and is attracting hordes to its shore! Why not! There’s so much so that anyone and everyone can get tempted to savor these lip smacking dishes. There’s a lot more to it so what all are you thinking and wasting your time over much? Rush to Dhaba by Claridges! Afterall it’s a no stone carved rule where God ask their followers to starve them. 

Looking Out for the Restaurant Faux Pas!

I can’t tell how it feels to be robbed at a place where nobody comes to your rescue, mainly because you make the plunge at your own peril. No, I am not talking about some deadly terrorist encounter. I am talking about setting a foot into a restaurant and setting the same foot out, robbed of all money and sadly, satisfaction, too.

One such encounter that I had at a restro, supposedly one of the best restaurants in Delhi, left me thinking about the authenticity of the word -‘best’. While some restaurants, like Dhaba By Claridges, Pind Baluchi, or Dawat live upto their names, others just come across as a terrible disappointment. While zeroing on a North Indian Restaurant in Delhi, here are the most common things NOT to look out for!

The old, boring food

Every North Indian Restaurant in Delhi will have the usual Dal Makhani and Shahi Paneer on its platter. How the restaurant reinvents it decides how things click with the customers. Nobody would splurge their hard earned money on a dish that can be as easily cooked at home too. New is the fad these days. Adopt it, and stick to it!

Candle lit Ambience and Non engaging Staff

Ask today’s youngsters or even elders for that matter, Candle lit ambience is a thing that has ceased to be a charmer. People these days hunt down places that could cater to their frolicky taste and enjoy their meals and drinks in a wacky manner. Quirky ambience punctuated with bizarre elements like cool feedback chits pasted on the walls strike a chord with the audience. Well that’s closely enough to leave a long lasting impression on the foodies.

A non engaging staff is a big turn off, too. Imagine an attendant who makes an unbothered expression at your orders and doesn’t nod or say yes as a token of affirmation? An engaging and a warm staff, hence, is imperative to a pleasant dining experience.