When your restaurant is Spice Zone (Rt-27, Edison, NJ), baby, the least you can do is spice it up. You know, give us a burning, tingling, sexy sensation. 😉 Spiceless Charade Alas, alas, Spice Zone turned out to be a spice-less travesty that dashed all our hopes on the hard rock of a mediocre kitchen. […]
By Sonny Chatrath As an aspiring film-maker and actor, I hate to speak badly about another artist’s work, but movies like Bbuddah Hoga Terra Baap make me scratch my head – Why do people waste so much time, and effort on projects that lack any artistic merit or entertainment value? I can honestly write a […]
Oh, no darlin, we didn’t hate Delhi Belly. Au contraire, it’s a pretty decent English film. At least by Indian standards, Delhi Belly is most certainly an entertaining movie. Paisa Vasool, as all ye putzheads like to say. It’s just that we’re amazed to see Aamir Khan forever chomping on one film-maker or the other’s […]
Ready Review – Pageant of Trash The first reviews of Salman Khan’s new film Ready are out. And they are not positive. Here’s a sample of critical reviews for Ready: Times of India The first half involves running around the trees (read beating around the bush) while the actual story starts only in the second […]
Cross Culture is an unusual name for an Indian restaurant. Typically, Indian restaurants in the U.S. have banal names like Delhi Palace, Indian Taj, Taj India, Gandhi, Nirvana, Taj Palace, Akbar, Mirchi or Maharaja. Imagine our surprise when we heard of Cross Culture Ethnic Indian Cuisine at Haddonfield, New Jersey. Turning on our GPS, we […]
It’s all fine and dandy to grandly name your restaurant Paradise Indian Cuisine. But if your food turns out to be mediocre, you end up looking silly. The sole consolation of our recent meal at Paradise (1660 Whitehead Court in Gwynn Oak, MD) was that only a few items were obscenely bad. Cold Chutneys at […]