The Kingfisher Explocity Great Food Guide and Kingfisher Explocity Nights, the comprehensive nightlife guide that has value add-ons like great discounts and deals, join hands with Odyssey.

The Culinary Journey At Mumbai Begins; Watch Le Royal Meridien Mumbai's Chef Nandan in action at Odyssey on 4th March @ 5.00pm

The Mumbai 2010 edition of The Kingfisher Explocity Food Guide and Kingfisher Explocity Nights.The Mumbai 2010 edition of The Kingfisher Explocity Food Guide and Kingfisher Explocity Nights.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, March 3, 2010 /India PRwire/ -- Following the successful launch of another year's edition of their much talked about food guides, the Kingfisher Explocity Great Food Guide Mumbai 2010 and Nights 2010, Explocity and Kingfisher have teamed up with Odyssey to take leading chefs of the city out of their busy kitchens and bring them right in front of you to work their magic, every week for a whole month. This unique culinary journey, after successful runs in Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Delhi and Kolkata, continues at Mumbai with Chef Nandan of Le Royal Meridien Mumbai. The talented chef will dish out his signature dishes on 4th March between 5.00pm and 6.30pm at Odyssey, K Star Mall, Mumbai.

Chef Nandan: The sous chef at Le Royal Meridien Mumbai, Chef Nandan More has been with the hotel for many years. He has been spearheading the creative aspect of culinary fare at the hotel with his award wining artistic vision. He has not only brought art, but also stellar leadership skills in kitchen execution and associate development for the hotel. He has won a gold medal at Hotelex 2008 for butter sculpting, Dragon butter sculpting gold medal at Chef Awards by PHD Chambers & IFCA 2009, and Chocolate Eagle and Deer at The Great Indian Culinary Challenge 2010. He has also been felicitated for the same by Starwood Hotels Asia Pacific in 2009 for bringing awards nationally to the hotel group. He also conducts various culinary classes at the hotel, teaching chocolate & butter sculpting. He is an artiste to reckon with in the culinary world.

He will show you how to recreate the magic of his lip-smacking delights in your kitchen. What's more, you will even get to savor the delicious dishes.

Don't give this gastronomical evening a skip!

Date: 4th March 2010

Venue: Odyssey, K-Star Mall, Near Diamond Garden

Time: 5.00pm - 6.30 pm

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 the Kingfisher Fashion Awards. Kingfisher is a lifestyle brand associated with fun, style, fashion and sports - Kingfisher Derby, Kingfisher Voice of Goa, association with Force India, Kingfisher East Bengal Football team, the official refresher of the Delhi Marathon, Mumbai Marathon and the Bangalore Marathon, just to name a few. In the past Kingfisher has 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 has 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 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, Bangalore Fashion week, Mumbai Fashion Week, Lakme Fashion Week 2009 and will be seen with many more in the near future.

About Odyssey: Odyssey is a premier leisure store chain stocking Books, Music, Cards, Stationery, Gifts, Toys, Multimedia, and Magazines having 49 stores with current operations in 13 Cities. Odyssey is expanding into newer markets besides expanding in existing markets.

Odyssey India Ltd recently forayed into many ventures and recent inclusions are the optical eyewear category - The Eyewear Store - a hi-fashion destination for international designer sunglasses & prescription frames is located at 1 each in Banjara hills (A.P) and Nirmal lifestyle(Mumbai), Odyssey 360 - a 24 hour online shopping bookstore has been launched extending to offer online shopping experience at www.odyssey360.com, and the latest offering in the pipeline is Editions- it is a premium and luxury pen store and a destination for any one who loves fine writing instruments and accessories, which will offer premium brands of luxury pens. It is located at Ampa Skywalk Mall in Chennai and will be launching shortly at Mumbai and Hyderabad. Visit www.odyssey.in for more details

About LE ROYAL MERIDIEN MUMBAI: Le Méridien Hotels & Resorts, with its portfolio of more than 120 luxury and upscale hotels in 52 countries worldwide, is owned by Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. The majority of Le Méridien properties are located in the world's top cities and resorts throughout Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East. In the 2005 Luxury Brand Status Index survey Le Méridien was recognised as one of the top 15 luxury hotel brands. Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. is one of the leading hotel and leisure companies in the world with approximately 890 properties in more than 100 countries and 145,000 employees at its owned and managed properties. Starwood® Hotels is a fully integrated owner, operator and franchisor of hotels and resorts with the following internationally renowned brands: St. Regis®, The Luxury Collection®, W®, Westin®, Le Méridien®, Sheraton®, Four Points® by Sheraton, Aloft(SM), and Element(SM). Starwood Hotels also owns Starwood Vacation Ownership, Inc., one of the premier developers and operators of high quality vacation interval ownership resorts.

About Explocity: Explocity.com is an aggregation of city-centric portals in New York, Dubai and 6 cities in India (Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai and Mumbai.). Explocity.com delivers the ultimate city experience through city features, events, movies, useful city information and thousands of accurate updated retail listings in each city under various categories like shopping, eating out and travel. 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.


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