By Sourish Bhattacharyya
INDIAN ACCENT is going global. The New Delhi restaurant that has wowed critics and customers by giving a global twist to Indian cuisine, and winning every award that was to be won, is opening its first international clone in New York’s Le Parker Meridien, a Starwood hotel, some time in October or November this year.
The Chairman of Old World Hospitality (OWH), Rohit Khattar, signed and sealed the agreement with the West 56th Street hotel’s management even as news came in of Indian Accent’s debut on the World’s 100 Best Restaurants list. OWH, incidentally, operates two hotels in Delhi ’ Broadway, which is turning 50 next year, and The Manor ’ and a host of restaurants, including the 25-year-old Chor Bizarre in New Delhi and Mayfair, London, besides a much sought-after luxury catering service.
’We have been evaluating multiple opportunities and invitations to open in major world cities, but none as exciting as New York,’ Khattar said in a media release announcing the opening. ’After two years of looking for the right space, our search ends at the beautiful Le Parker Meridien, which will be home to Indian Accent later this year.’
Khattar and OWH’s Corporate Chef (Luxury Dining), and the man behind Indian Accent’s unprecedented success, Manish Mehrotra, were in New York recently to take one final look at the location before putting signature to bond paper.
Le Parker Meridien is famous for the magnificent views it commands of Central Park, apart from its proximity to MOMA, Carnegie Hall, Broadway theatres and Fifth Avenue’s shopping magnets. The hotel at present has two restaurants ’ Burger Joint, a fun burger place with a one-page menu, and Norma’s, a breakfast hangout open from 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. ’ and a coffee and cocktails bar named Knave. Indian Accent, by the looks of it, will certainly pep up the hotel’s minimalist F&B offering. A visit to New York will never be the same again.
The author is Consulting Editor of BW Hotelier.-
INDIAN ACCENT is going global. The New Delhi restaurant that has wowed critics and customers by giving a global twist to Indian cuisine, and winning every award that was to be won, is opening its first international clone in New York’s Le Parker Meridien, a Starwood hotel, some time in October or November this year.
The Chairman of Old World Hospitality (OWH), Rohit Khattar, signed and sealed the agreement with the West 56th Street hotel’s management even as news came in of Indian Accent’s debut on the World’s 100 Best Restaurants list. OWH, incidentally, operates two hotels in Delhi ’ Broadway, which is turning 50 next year, and The Manor ’ and a host of restaurants, including the 25-year-old Chor Bizarre in New Delhi and Mayfair, London, besides a much sought-after luxury catering service.
’We have been evaluating multiple opportunities and invitations to open in major world cities, but none as exciting as New York,’ Khattar said in a media release announcing the opening. ’After two years of looking for the right space, our search ends at the beautiful Le Parker Meridien, which will be home to Indian Accent later this year.’
Khattar and OWH’s Corporate Chef (Luxury Dining), and the man behind Indian Accent’s unprecedented success, Manish Mehrotra, were in New York recently to take one final look at the location before putting signature to bond paper.
Le Parker Meridien is famous for the magnificent views it commands of Central Park, apart from its proximity to MOMA, Carnegie Hall, Broadway theatres and Fifth Avenue’s shopping magnets. The hotel at present has two restaurants ’ Burger Joint, a fun burger place with a one-page menu, and Norma’s, a breakfast hangout open from 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. ’ and a coffee and cocktails bar named Knave. Indian Accent, by the looks of it, will certainly pep up the hotel’s minimalist F&B offering. A visit to New York will never be the same again.
The author is Consulting Editor of BW Hotelier.-
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