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In search of lost flavours? Rasayyah resurrects the soul of Awadhi cuisine. There's a particular melancholy that comes with eating well-made Awadhi food in our times. It's the sadness of knowing that so much has been lost—that the great khansamas who once presided over royal kitchens have long since departed, taking with them secrets that no cookbook can adequately capture. The dum technique, the precision of spicing, the patience required to coax flavour from meat until it surrenders completely—these are dying arts in an age of instant gratification. Which is why stumbling upon Rasayyah—the name itself, Sanskrit for "exquisitely delicious," carries a certain ambitious promise—feels like discovering a culinary time capsule, albeit one with a contemporary postcode. The Concept: Heritage Without Museum Dustiness Amit Tandon's vision for Rasayyah is ambitious in its scope: to pay tribute to the culinary legacy of both Awadh and Brij-Banaras. It's an interesting pairing, this marriage of the Nawabi and the devotional, of courtly indulgence and temple-kitchen purity. On paper, it could have been a confusing jumble. In execution, it's rather more thoughtful than that. The restaurant positions itself as a place "where heritage meets respect and rediscovery"—the sort of mission statement that could easily dissolve into meaningless restaurant-speak. But there's something to it when you taste the food. The chefs here aren't simply reheating grandmother's recipes; they're applying dum cooking expertise with what the menu calls "contemporary finesse." Translation: they understand the techniques but aren't imprisoned by dogma. The Vegetarian Revelation I'll confess I approached the vegetarian appetizers with the polite scepticism of someone who has endured too many paneer tikkas masquerading as culinary achievement. The Bharwa Paneer Tikka could have been yet another entry in that dismal category. Instead, what arrived was a soft paneer cube—properly soft, mind you, not the squeaky rubber that most restaurants inflict upon us—stuffed with cheese, onions, and bell peppers, then seared to achieve a velvety smokiness.

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