#blahvsfood goes to Nonna Mei, Shillong.. where one of my favourite chefs finds her voice again!
A lot of people told me not to go to Nonna Mei. When I said to my friends that it was the restaurant I was most excited about, people were surprised and they said I would be disappointed because it wasn’t that great, and having been there now I fully understand why they would say that. But I have to say they were absolutely wrong because this is a great restaurant in every sense of the word. It is a triumph by one of India’s best chefs, an act of imagination and creation that absolutely blew me away. I went to Rynsan and Nonna Mei on consecutive days and it astounds me that my hometown of Shillong now has two of India’s very best restaurants.. and in my honest opinion Nonna Mei is the better of the two. Smoked pork negroni The thing with Italian food (like Chinese food) is that everyone thinks they understand it and know it. But familiarity is not knowledge, and the pizza and pasta that most Indians know is as Italian as gobi manchurian is Chinese. If your frame...
