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Kohli's Table: One8 Commune on Golf Course Road Has More Going for It Than Just the Star Power A Sunday afternoon well spent — and a few dishes that genuinely surprised me. Let me be honest with you from the outset. When a celebrated sportsperson opens a restaurant — and in India, that almost always means a cricketer — my first instinct is polite scepticism. There is a long and somewhat inglorious history of celebrity-endorsed dining in this country. The food tends to be secondary; the Instagram opportunities very much primary. You go once, you take the photograph, you tell your friends, and you never go back. The restaurant, in turn, survives on the relentless machinery of hype until even that runs dry. Which is why One8 Commune, Virat Kohli’s restaurant brand, genuinely took me by surprise. Not because it is perfect — it isn’t — but because it is, in several meaningful ways, actually trying. And succeeding. The newest outpost on Golf Course Road in Gurugram is a handsome space. There is a generosity to it, an ease, the kind that takes real money and real thought to achieve without looking like it cost either. The lighting deserves a special mention — it is warm without being amber-heavy, bright enough to actually see your food (a radical concept, one feels, in the dimly-lit world of contemporary restaurant design) but atmospheric enough that a Sunday lunch stretches effortlessly into early evening without you quite noticing. The interiors carry that well-travelled, globally-influenced aesthetic that Kohli himself seems to embody: clean lines, confident materials, not trying too hard. The service, too, is worth noting. There’s a fine line between attentive and intrusive, and the staff here navigates it with more grace than you might expect. They know the menu, they are not reading from a script, and when I asked questions about the kitchen’s sourcing, the answers were coherent. These are small things, but in a restaurant landscape where ‘good service’ frequently means someone placing food in front of you without dropping it, they count.

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