Explocity and Kingfisher join hands with Landmark to give Delhi's gourmets a platter full of delightful events
The Explocity Kingfisher Great food Guide Cooking demo - Catch city's renowned chef: Chef Manish Sharma and Chef Saikat Chaudhary in action @ Landmark on March 4 @ 5.00pm onwards
Tweet-- Following the successful launch of one of the country's leading food guides, the Kingfisher Explocity Great Food Guide Delhi & NCR 2010 edition, Explocity, Kingfisher & Landmark decided to take leading chefs in the city out of their busy kitchens and bring them right in front of you to work their magic. On 4th March this delightful culinary journey will be held at Landmark DLF Grand Mall, Mehrauli, Gurgaon at 5.00pm with the chefs from Slice of Italy: Chefs Manish and Saikat dishing up lip smacking delicacies.
This evening will have the master chefs show you how you can recreate the magic of their signature dishes in your very own kitchen. That's not all. You can even savour their delicious pizzas at the event. This evening promises to be a delight for all foodies.
Chef Manish Sharma has been associated with Slice of Italy since early 2007. His passion for cooking inspired him to join Hotel Management. He started his professional career in 2003 after completing a degree in Hotel Management in Jaipur. Apart from his culinary fervour, he has strong administrative qualities, which has made him a very good Manager and Chef.
Chef Saikat Chaudhary has been into cooking as long as he remembers. This passion started as early as 15 years of age. His entire family and relatives were really fond of his Bengali style fish curry that he cooked all by himself. After graduating with honours in English from Vishvabharti University, Shantiniketan, he started his culinary training at Slice of Italy in 2001 and has been growing since then along with the restaurant.
Embark on this unique culinary journey and give your taste buds a wonderful treat!
Time: 5.00pm - 6.30 pm
Date: 4th March 2010
Venue: Landmark DLF Grand Mall, Mehrauli - Gurgaon.
For more information, please call Landmark- 421 1000/ Explocity - 096542 89654
Notes to Editor
About Kingfisher: Kingfisher Premium is a flagship brand from The United Breweries Group. The brand has won many international awards for its brew, packaging and advertising. Currently available in over 50 countries, some of its most memorable initiatives include the Kingfisher Swimsuit Calendar and Kingfisher Fashion Awards. Kingfisher is a lifestyle brand associated with fun, style, fashion and Sports. Kingfisher Derby, Kingfisher Voice of Goa in association with Force India are amongst a host of other prominent initiatives by Kingfisher. Apart from these events, few other endeavors include the Kingfisher East Bengal Football team, the official refresher of the Delhi Marathon, Mumbai Marathon and the Bangalore Marathon. In the past Kingfisher had brand ambassadors such as Andrew Flintoff, Michael Vaughan, Ajay Jadeja and Sourav Ganguly. Kingfisher Premium this year has also gone on to sign Giancarlo Fisichella as one of its ambassadors. Kingfisher also associated itself with the IPL this season, by officially becoming the Good Times Partner of 5 Teams - Rajasthan Royals, Mumbai Indians, Deccan Chargers, Royal Challengers Bangalore and the Delhi Dare Devils. In fashion, Kingfisher owns the most glamorous property 'Kingfisher Swimsuit Calendar". Introduced in 2003, the 'Kingfisher Swimsuit Special' became the pioneer of sorts in India and led the path for many such concepts to follow. In addition to this, Kingfisher has been associated with various Fashion festivals in India. Kingfisher has been a "Good Times Partner" to the FDCI sponsored Fashion Week in Delhi, The Bangalore Fashion week, Kolkata Fashion Week, Lakme Fashion Week 2009 and will be seen with many more such prestigious events in the near future.
About Explocity: Explocity.com is an aggregation of city-centric portals in New York, Dubai and 6 cities in India (Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad and Kolkata.). Explocity.com delivers the ultimate city experience through city features, events, movies, useful city information and thousands of accurately updated retail listings in each city under various categories like shopping, eating out, travel and many more. Promoted by Mr. Ramjee Chandran, CEO and Publisher, Explocity.com received the first round of funding from ICF Ventures and the second round from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
About Landmark: Landmark commenced its operations in 1987 with its first store in Chennai. Today, Landmark is the largest book and music retail chain in India with a total of 13 stores, ranging in size from 12,000 sq. ft. to 45,000 sq. ft with 3 in Chennai, 2 in Bangalore, 2 in Hyderabad and 1 each in Mumbai, Vadodara, Gurgaon, Pune, Ahmedabad and Lucknow. In addition Landmark has 7 hotel bookstores in leading hotels, plus 5 airport stores at the new Hyderabad Airport and 1 airport store at the domestic terminal 1B of Mumbai Airport.
Until 1996, Landmark was focused on books, stationery, and greeting cards and later added music to its product portfolio. Landmark also started the trend of stocking curios, toys, music, CDs and other gift items. With an intensive and wide categorical segregation, Landmark's USP is the range and depth of its stocks.
About Slice Of Italy: At Slice of Italy, we have combined the right ingredients and years of successful experience to create a superb, growth-oriented business operation. Our delicious, high-quality homemade pizzas, oven baked subs, and salads uniquely position Slice of Italy in the pizza marketplace, allowing us to fully capitalize on the fastest growing segment of the food service industry."Major elements in our strategy include excellent products, superior customer service and the marketing savvy to compete against the international pizza chains."
As of now, we have 15 outlets in Delhi & NCR & out of these 04 are Franchisee outlets. The company plans to open 38 to 40 outlets by 2011. The expansion is planned in Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal, along with Delhi & NCR.
Company also has very aggressive plans for Gujarat. For this the core surveys of all the aspects are being done. We have plans to open pure vegetarian Slice of Italy restaurants in all major cities of Gujarat with some parts of Maharashtra as well.Our Vision "To always focus on ultimate customer satisfaction with uncompromising integrity and never fail to remember 'what we stand for and why we exist'."
"Our team believes that controlled product, consistency, pricing and meeting the highest quality standards is the vital key to the success - Slice of Italy is enjoying today."