IF there’s one reason that you need to go to Azulia for, besides the food and their affable chef with an adorable accent, it has to be what I call ‘The Pepper Torch’. There’s an unbelievable kick that ...

“It's magic. Turkish magic,” murmurs the waiter. He tucks a dehydrated towel into a glass of cool rosewater and it blossoms into a towel. “It's not really Turkish magic,” counters Chef Ethem Aydemir, ...

It's a little amusing to hear restaurant food described as “home-made” but, of course, one understands what Chef Ethem Aydemir means. His efforts to grow some exotic herbs to flavour the food served ...

Part of Azulia’s surprise has to be its location. It overlooks the atrium of the grt Grand hotel in Chennai that caters to a typical south Indian Kancheepuram silk sari and shiny-white veshti crowd.