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Pendulo: Where Old Delhi Meets Oaxaca in Mehrauli There are restaurants that arrive fully formed, their concept polished to a high sheen, their identity delivered with PowerPoint precision. And then there are places like Pendulo, which announce themselves not with a manifesto but with a memory—in this case, an evening in Mexico City when Sahil Baweja stood in a mezcal bar, breathing in smoke and spice, and found himself transported to the midnight kebab carts of Old Delhi. That moment of recognition, of two culinary worlds discovering they'd been speaking the same language all along, is what births truly original restaurants. What Baweja has created in Mehrauli, along with Chef Megha Kohli and Chef Noah Louis Barnes, is not fusion in the tired, apologetic sense we've come to dread. This is something far more interesting: a conversation between equals, conducted in the universal language of fire, smoke, and spice. The Architecture of Collision The genius of Pendulo—and I use that word advisedly—lies in understanding that harmony is not about compromise. Kohli brings the weight of history: Old Delhi's gullies where families have been perfecting their kebabs for generations, Lucknow's patient dum cooking, the coconut-scented hearths of Malabar. Barnes counters with the Baja shoreline, Oaxaca's volcanic markets, and the late-night taqueria culture of Mexico City. These are not chefs trying to meet in the middle; they're chefs who've realized the middle was a myth all along. The twelve-course journey that follows is ambitious without being exhausting, intellectual without being pretentious. It maps geography both physical and emotional—from Mehrauli's sandstone calm to Goa's coastal whispers to the Yucatan's jungle breath—with the confidence of cartographers who know every alleyway by heart. The Larger Conversation Here's what makes Pendulo important beyond its immediate pleasures: it's a restaurant that understands modern Indian dining doesn't mean abandoning tradition; it means putting tradition in conversation with the world.

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