On the food trail

Diya,The Leela Ambience, Gurugram

Indian food is the most abused, especially in North India where the entire dining experience is distilled down to two or three dishes and the rest of the country falls off the map and of course your plate. The challenge is to present Indian cuisines as a cohesive whole through a menu that reflects our diversity and where each dish is treated as an equal. Diya Simple Indya at the Leela hotel Gurgaon has relaunched itself in a brand new mould, giving the work 'pan India' actual weightage as it brings you the best from every state. The chef who has given it its new identity, chef Ajay Sahoo, has spent the last 14 years travelling the country and giving Indian food a new shape and form and that's exactly what he is doing at Diya too.

The dishes at the restaurant are like small bowls/ plates as the team wants diners to try a number of dishes and leave the restaurant satiated but not overwhelmingly full