India, Nov. 15 -- If you follow Prathik Shetty's advice, your evening at House of Paloma will feel less like a night out in humid Mumbai and more like a drive through the coasts of South America. You'll begin at the bar-always the bar-with a Paloma 1950 that tastes like the sun and salt of Mexico, bright enough to reset your mood. Then you'll move to the Red Room, a cocktail that hums low and slow, its notes of cacao and spice wrapping around you like a Buenos Aires evening.
The food matches the rhythm-a ceviche that feels like a breath of the coast in Lima, a plate of short ribs with the weight and warmth of a homecoming. Around you, the lights shift from pink to crimson, the music curls closer, and time begins to stretch. By the time ...