Meal for two: Rs 2,200
Contact: 23743000

Equatorial Warmth
And if these don’t please you, there is unusual Ecuador. The kitchen at Machan, the cafe-style diner at the Taj Mahal Hotel, is bereft of sauces and spice sacks these days. Instead, visiting Ecuadorian chef Gonzala Davila Trueba is attempting to introduce Delhiites to stewed meats, without the domineering flavours of powdered spices and crushed peppers, from the equatorial country. Since corn is popular, there will be chulpi corn, mote corn and sweet corn in most dishes. For winters, he recommends shrimp cebiche (Rs 625) that offers a bowlful of shrimps cooked with tomato sauce and orange juice along with a generous sprinkling of lemon, popcorn and chilli; chiriucho de pescado (Rs 795) that is breaded fish with sauce and Aguado de gallina (Rs 375) that fetches a platter of chicken and rice soup. There is even paella (Rs 625) skewed by the equator.

Meal for two: Rs 2,000
Contact: 23026162

Bean there, drink that
Choko La at Khan Market and Basant Lok is ready to pour out some single-origin chocolates in balmy cups. The diner is rolling out five single-origin beans from Tanzania, Ecuador, Java, Arriba and Sao Thome that will be served in shot glasses. From Madagascar comes milky chocolate with a bittersweet aftertaste, out of Tanzania is a dark chocolate with robust flavours while the Javanese has caramel overtones in every sip.

Meal for two: Rs 500
Contact: 41757570