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For the Dad Who Made You: An Afternoon at Si Nonna's I have, over the years, written about enough restaurants to have developed a fairly reliable instinct for when a meal is going to be about the food, and when it is going to be about something else entirely. This Father's Day, it was unmistakably the latter — and I mean that as the highest compliment I can pay to a restaurant. The surprise, I should say, was not mine to plan. My daughter had quietly put it together — Si Nonna's, tucked into Sector 71 of Gurugram, became the venue for what turned out to be the best Father's Day gift I've received in years. Not a tie. Not a card. A reservation, and an afternoon set aside just for the two of us. A Restaurant That Understands the Assignment I have always maintained that the best Italian restaurants in this country are the ones that don't try too hard to convince you they're authentic — they simply behave as though good food, made with care, needs no further argument. Si Nonna's falls into that camp. It has the unhurried warmth of a neighbourhood trattoria, the kind of place that seems entirely unbothered by trends, content instead to do a few things properly. What I hadn't expected was to find myself, apron and all, rolling out pizza dough. Flour on My Hands, and No Complaints About It My daughter had arranged a pizza-making session for us — the two of us, side by side, doing something I cannot recall having done together before. There is a particular kind of conversation that happens over a shared task rather than across a table, and I found myself recommending it to anyone who will listen. You talk more freely when your hands are busy. The dough doesn't care if there are silences; it simply waits for you to get back to it. We made a mess of it, I'm fairly certain, in the way that first attempts always are. But it didn't matter in the least. This was never really about the pizza. It was about the half hour of unbroken, unhurried time — the kind that gets harder to find as children grow older and lives get busier on both sides. For the dad who made you, or simply for the time you don't get enough of — Si Nonna's makes a strong case for itself.

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