pains and pleasures

[Londres, 2007   ©António Lucas Soares]

(This account is based on the recollections of a meal taken during the summer of 2006).
We were standing outside Kake Da Hotel at Connaught Place in New Delhi. Moaned over by food critics, the legendary eatery – its name implying ‘Uncle’s Restaurant’ in Punjabi - is supposed to be a carnivore's delight. Amateur gourmands drive great distances to feast on its celebrated Butter Chicken. But Kake Da Hotel was a mere shack beside a smoggy highway.