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Poiz, Gurugram: When a Rooftop Gets It Right There is a moment, on any good restaurant visit, when you stop thinking about the food and start simply living inside the experience. At Poiz, Gurugram's glamorous rooftop at AIPL Joy Street in Sector 66, that moment arrived earlier than expected — somewhere between my first sip of Red Wine Sangria and the point when the city skyline, framed by swaying palms and washed in the amber of early evening light, stopped being a backdrop and became part of the meal itself. This was my second visit to Poiz. The first had been good enough to bring me back. The second was good enough to make me wonder why it had taken me so long to return. Ansh Gupta's creation is, in conception, a bold bet. Gurugram has no shortage of rooftop restaurants — the city's skyline is practically stitched together by them — but Poiz is doing something rather more considered than most. The marble finishes, the palm trees, the theatrical sensibility: it all adds up to a setting that genuinely earns the "Dubai-like" descriptor that gets thrown around in breathless reviews. Except here's the thing about that comparison — Poiz doesn't feel derivative. It feels assured. There's a difference. The space works for multiple occasions: lunches that linger, dinners that escalate, and — rarer than it sounds in the NCR dining circuit — a genuinely warm, unhurried environment that doesn't turn hostile the moment a family walks in on a weekend. That hospitality instinct matters more than most restaurateurs seem to realise. I started, as one should, with a drink. The Red Wine Sangria at Poiz is the kind of cocktail-adjacent pour that functions as a mood-setter rather than a mere beverage — fruity without being cloying, and light enough to let you pace yourself without feeling like you're being rushed toward the next bottle. The appetizers arrived with the kind of deliberate care that good kitchens apply when they know their produce is the story. The Duo of Chicken Tikka — a Lahsuni Tikka alongside a Malai Tikka — placed two classic idioms of the tandoor in direct conversation with each other.

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