Dehradun, Oct. 25 -- Culinary Chronicles

My memory lane terminates till the late seventies when not many vendors sold eats on the sides of the Mall Road and in Kulri Bazaar. Apart from a handful of "popcorn and bhel puri" hawkers abreast the Jhula Ghar.

The town was hygienic and unconfined those days as juxtaposed with current times. Less traffic with a countable number of Ambassadors and Fiats that rolled on the boulevards. Hand pulled rickshaws, trotting horses and baby strollers contributed to the mild congestion on the streets.

Out of many eateries, three were trendy for the food that they presented and the ambience they provided to the guests - Kwality, Whispering Windows, and Tavern. Much later in the mid-eighties, Hotel Presiden...