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Hoisting surreal taste!

Eating at Flag's is a real experience. The quintessential food is mouth-watering, mesmerising, lip-smacking, finger licking (though you don't really get a chance to dig your fingers into the food) and manna for epicureans. What's different with Flag's is that they don't call themselves multi-cuisine and who would if they have cuisines from about 42 nations listed sassily in the elegantly designed menu card. They are a world cuisine restaurant and definitely live up to the name.

Boss' day out : Arun Arora, General Manager, The Corinthian's

8.00 hrs — On Sundays, my day starts late. I am quite fond of reading newspapers and leisurely spend my time scanning all the newspapers, while sipping tea.

10.30 hrs — I laze around in garden checking over the plants and vegetables that I have been growing. Sometimes I sow seeds and water the plants.

11.00 hrs— On Sundays, as a rule I prefer to have breakfast with the whole family. My wife and kids are crazy about the omelettes I prepare and since they want something different, each time I try to prepare them in

various ways.

1.30 hrs— I either keep myself busy with the repairing work around the house or we go for shopping. Sunday is the day when we stock our fridge with the whole week's grocery.

Fashionsitas, welcome

Fashion Designer Lina TipnisShe says less is more.

'I must have my fish curry and rice'

If she had her way, Deepa Awchat would write on all her experiences of savouring different regions of India — "Not just food, but culture and heritage too," she smiles. For the slim-figured restaurateur has "loads of documentation" collected over her 20-year-old tryst with different cuisines, that goes much beyond her first book that she's just written. A gazetted post with the Customs department, which she gave up along the way for her first love, cooking, holding no regrets for her.

"The pleasure," she smiles, seated at the terrace of her home at Matunga, "Is to present food the way I see it; each dish must have definite ingredients."

BlackBerry Buffs

US President Barrack Obama's addiction with his BlackBerry made him battle Whitehouse bureaucracy. He could thus hang on to his favourite gizmo. And the best part is that he won and so still remains a proud owner of the gadget that's indispensable to many of our own Indian politicians and celebrities.

HEAD FOR A 'quickie'...

With stress levels on an all time-high,  vacationing styles of the glitterati are slowly changing; short holidays seem to be getting more popular

Kamal Sidhu, Model/Actor

I  like taking short drives to places like Alibaug without having to get on a plane and checking in and out twice over. Recently, I travelled to Mahabaleshwar.  It was wonderful going into the absolute wild, and on hills, where there wasn't a soul around. Such a change!

Azeem Khan, fashion designer

Sameena (his wife) and I make sure that we recharge our batteries by taking weekend vacations regularly. We take off for Lonavala, Mahabaleshwar and Alibaug regularly. We also have a house in Pune which we holiday in from time to time.  

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