Kamla's Blog posts on ‘Food’

By Kamla Bhatt • Oct 14th, 2007 • Category: Bangalore, Entrepreneur Interviews, Food, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Mobile, Social Media, TechLife - Financial Express, Technology, Web 2.0

Here is this week’s Financial Express column in TechLife.
Have you ever wondered where and how some nifty applications and widgets originate and how they reach us? How does it happen? Is there a structured way of innovating and creasing these applications? Or, is this done in a fun-filled environment with no constraints except to create [...]



By Kamla Bhatt • Oct 2nd, 2007 • Category: Diaspora, Entrepreneur Interviews, Food, People, Technology

 
In Part 2 of my interview with Sabena Puri, she talks about how she got Junnoon started and the help she got from Camellia Punjabi of Masala World Group that owns and operates some of the best Indian restaurants in the UK like Veeraswamy and Amaya.
Sabena also talks about her future business plans [...]



By Kamla Bhatt • Sep 29th, 2007 • Category: Bombay/Mumbai, Diaspora, Entrepreneur Interviews, Food, People, Podcast

Sabena Puri is the founder and owner of Junnoon, a Palo Alto-based restaurant and is located in the same building as Facebook.
In Part 1 Sabena talks about how she extended her IT product management skills into running the restaurant, including giving equity to the team at Junnoon. Prior to founding [tag]Junnoon Sabena]Tag\ worked [...]



By Kamla Bhatt • Sep 27th, 2007 • Category: Diaspora, Food, India, People, Podcast

I recently caught up with Junoon’s Executive Chef Kirti Pant in Palo Alto, California to find out about the restaurant, his style of cooking and more importantly, his deep passion for cooking. Junnoon means “passion” in Urdu and that seems to be the operative word for the folks behind Junnoon. In a short span of [...]



By Kamla Bhatt • Sep 24th, 2007 • Category: Diaspora, Food, Ideas, India, San Francisco, Social Media, YouTube Videos

Facebook, the social networking company is located in the same building as Junnoon, one of the hottest Indian restaurants in the San Francisco bay area.
Here is a short video clip of Facebook and Junnoon in Palo Alto, California. Facebook, headed by a Harvard alum is just a stone’s throw from Stanford University.

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By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 29th, 2007 • Category: Diaspora, Food, Ideas, New York, Podcast, The New York Times

New York’s Devi Restaurant located on E.18th Street pulled down the shutters earlier this week according to The New York Times. The staff of the restaurant has apparently sued the owner of the restaurant at a Manhattan Federal Court adds the paper. (Thanks Arzan for the tip.)
Hemant Mathur, who was the executive chef at [...]