Now you can enjoy exotic food from your favourite hotels at the comfort of your home, with their special home delivery menus, just so that quarantine
doesn’t come in the way of a fancy dinner date. By Tanvi Jain
1. Hyatt Hotels
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Four high-end restaurants at Hyatt Regency Delhi — La Piazza, The China Kitchen, TK’s Oriental Grill, and Sidewalk — have initiated delivery for takeaway orders within a distance of five kilometres across Delhi/NCR. They have curated a special delivery menu with selected items from the outlet menu, and a Navratri menu too. This new service will allow people to enjoy their favourite food items like Pizza La Piazza, Minced chicken salad, Chilly chicken, and more, even during the home-quarantine phase.
“We are trying to personalise all the orders as per the preference of our guests, within our limited capacity, while maintaining the quality of food as per standards. We are also exploring opportunities to collaborate with a third party or aggregators to increase our delivery radius,” said Julian Ayers, General Manager Hyatt Regency, Delhi.
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The restaurants are also delivering some of their signature dishes at the comfort of your home. For example La Piazza’s signature pizzas and specialities like Spaghetti Agli Olio and Tiramisu; TK’s Oriental Grill’s Indonesian, Japanese and Thai specialities, along with chef recommendations such as Minced chicken salad and TK’s Oriental Yellow Prawn Curry; The China Kitchen’s Beijing street-style food; fresh salads, grills, extensive tandoor and main course from Cafe; and European Style freshly baked cakes, pastries, pralines and truffles by Chef Bungla at Sidewalk.
Moreover, Grand Hyatt Mumbai & Residences has also started home delivery service. Now, you can easily order some of their lip-smacking dishes either via Swiggy or by their Guest can call facility, and the hotel will deliver via Food Cloud. The service will soon be available at Zomato as well.
“Too much of #WorkFromHome or done being a #HomeChef? Here you go, #GrandHyattMumbai is NOW available for Online Orders. Grab your favourite meal. Order on @swiggy_in or click here bit.ly/GHM_SHD, or CALL 9021609661/ 7045950140 to place your order. . . #hyattcares #hyatt,” tweeted Grand Hyatt Mumbai Hotel & Residences.
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Furthermore, Park Hyatt Hyderabad has also been added to the list of Hyatt hotels offering home delivery service. “Your favourite comfort food is now offering home delivery. Call +91 77022 02518 for more details. #Rika #HomeDelivery #SafetyFirst #ParkHyatt #ParkHyattHyderabad #Hyderabad,” the hotel recently tweeted.
Another one of the Hyatt hotels — Hyatt Regency Kolkata — has curated a special home delivery menu, comprising of all classics, favourites and some of the most popular dishes. Under the guidance of their Executive Chef Vikas Singh, the food is being prepared in their main kitchen, while maintaining the highest hygiene levels.
The chefs also make sure craft some interesting and wholesome preparations from menus of their famous restaurants La Cucina, Waterside Cafe, and Guchhi for Indian cuisine. Moreover, the menu also contains fresh breads and morning bakeries.
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The hotel is further promoting both contactless delivery as well as payments. The home delivery option is applicable for those living within a radius of 10 kilometres, and people can either place an order via call or go for the takeaway option. Moreover, they are also delivering through third-party aggregators within the vicinity of the property.
Park Hyatt Chennai, too, has introduced a brand new food take-away and delivery initiative called Happiness Home Delivered. This takeaway menu offers a selection of Italian, Indian and Pan Asian cuisines, along with signatures dishes from their restaurant, The Flying Elephant. For added precautions, all the culinary and service teams involved are staying in the hotel itself, in turn helping them avoid any external contact. Digital payments, contactless deliveries, UV-C treated packaging, and sourcing from approved vendors are some of the other ways Park Hyatt Chennai is ensuring safety. To order, one can call or WhatsApp +91 8939871128 or order online via their delivery partner.
2. The Park Hotels
Moreover, another luxury hotel chain — The Park Hotels — has also offered home delivery of special limited menu via their online partners, so that you can safely enjoy their exotic recipes at the comfort of your home.
The delivery service is available at their hotels in Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Navi Mumbai and New Delhi, both online as well as via phone call.
Their special chef-handpicked menu includes a variety Indian regional specialities, signature wood-fired thin-crust pizzas, and other Italian favourites; wraps, sandwiches, desserts, and a range of healthy European and Asian salads; starting INR 250 onward.
The group has partnered with food delivery giants — Swiggy and Zomato — for quick online delivery. You can also reach out to The Park Hyderabad at 9884912417, for direct delivery.
3. AnnaMaya, Andaz Delhi
In an attempt to enhance its food delivery menu, Andaz Delhi’s AnnaMaya has included some of the popular items such as AnnaMaya cheesecake, Delhi Butter Chicken, Tandoori Chicken, Moradabadi Dal, Bun Tikki, raw mango curry with red rice, Thai curry, artisanal flatbreads, tea cakes, muffins, chocolate bars, salad bowls, wraps, burgers, kebabs, roasts, curries, biryani, and more.
Moreover, to help its guests cook delicious food at home, it has also come up with a market list comprising of its artisan retail products to help support the local artisans and ensure you only use the best organic and seasonal ingredients. Some of the brands on the list include cheese by Darima Farms, grains from Indian Original Table, cookies by Earthspired & ZingZest, sugar and salt varieties by Artisan Palate, freeze-dried fruits by Furo, Pascati & Sayara chocolate bars, Café Junyali spices, Kumaoni & Himalayan Haat honey and preserves, C green healthy snacks, Rig Veda ghee, Indian origin table noodles and Chai Veda artisanal tea.
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Furthermore, its picnic baskets are available in two variations – breakfast and hi-tea priced at INR 2,500 and INR 2,000 respectively. It has also recently introduced DIY meal boxes suitable for two persons for INR 1,250 with a three-course meal. All you need to do is assemble the ingredients as per instructions and serve your favourite recipes in true AnnaMaya style at home.
The idea behind all this is to encourage mindful eating as it had once tweeted, “#WeAreHereForYou Continue to Eat Mindful, Shop Artisanal and Raise Awareness. Order for your favourite recipes, fresh bakes and desserts as well as choicest #Artisanal Retail products.”
The restaurant had enhanced its contactless home delivery menu once before also, with additions of picnic hampers and high tea baskets, breakfast specials, celebration cakes, Asian mains, evening snacks, artisan cheese and an array of artisanal retail.
“Annamaya’s enhanced home delivery menu is here! Scan the QR code to view the complete menu or visit bit.ly/AnnaMayaDelive To place your orders, call 91 11 49031352 or 7291060670 New additions // #picnic hampers, #breakfast specials, Asian, Kathi Rolls, artisan #cheese,” it had earlier tweeted.
4. Taj Hotels
The Indian Hotels Company Limited (IHCL) with its Hospitality@Home services, is offering selected essential products at the comfort of your home. These at-home services include finest gourmet products like freshly baked loaves of bread, and confectioneries straight from the bakeries of Taj. You can also order at-home spa and exotic food from their iconic restaurants. The Taj with its contactless takeaway is also offering some exciting hampers, and F&B services, across Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad and Kolkata. You can choose from their food hampers, which include products like pasta, herbs, cheese, crackers, granola bar, etc. Moreover, their wellness hampers comprise of essentials like scrubs, oil blends, foot soaks, etc from their Jiva Spa.
5. Conrad Bengaluru
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Conrad Bengaluru has also started home delivery service so that you don’t miss out on their lip-smacking delicacies even during the lockdown. The hotel has also listed many of its popular restaurants like Tiamo, Mikusu, Caraway Kitchen, The Lobby Brew, and Indian Durbar on food delivery website Zomato. “In the times of Social Distancing, we are bringing Conrad magic to your home. To order, call on 080 – 2214 4444 or +91 88844 00194 #ConradBengaluru #ConradCulinaryatyourDoorstep #StayInspired #StaySafe #Bengaluru,” the hotel recently tweeted, along with their menu.
6. Marriott International Hotels
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The Ritz-Carlton, Bangalore has come up with free home delivery and takeaway options, which is available upon placing your order 24 hours in advance between 9 am to 9 pm, and that too at discounted rates. The menu comprises of freshly cooked food by the hotel’s master chefs, and the home delivery is undertaken to keep in mind all measures to maintain the highest levels of hygiene.
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Moreover, the hotel is also offering special Do.It.Yourself dishes, that come with ingredients and a recipe note for you to be your own master chef at home, The free delivery option is applicable to those residing within a radius of eight kilometres from the hotel’s property. You can place your order both on cal, as well as on WhatsApp at 6364878820 (Vishwesh Ramesh) and 7338153529 (Srinivasan Raman).
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Others that have joined the list include JW Marriott Juhu in Mumbai, The Ritz-Carlton Pune, JW Marriott Kolkata, Feast from Sheraton Grand Bangalore Hotel at Brigade Gateway, JW Marriott Pune, Feast and Chingari outlets of Sheraton Grand Pune Bund Garden Hotel, Bengaluru Marriott Hotel Whitefield, Sheraton Hyderabad, and The Westin Kolkata Rajarhat.
Sheraton Grand Pune Bund Garden Hotel, in particular, is undertaking home delivery of foods between 8 am and 11 am for lunch. The delivery for the same is made between 12:30 pm and 2 pm. Orders for dinner at taken anytime between 11 am to 4 pm, with the food landing up at your doorstep between 7:30 pm and 9:30 pm. The food, prepared at Feast and Chingari – both of which are outlets at the hotel, is made with utmost care to hygiene irrespective of what is ordered. You can choose between a wide range of dishes like Italian pastas, to even Asian noodles. Contactless delivery and safety norms are practised throughout the process. Moreover, they even have eVouchers worth INR 1500 for INR 1000. These can be purchased till June 1, 2020, and are redeemable anytime till December 31, 2020.
7. Roseate Hotels and Resorts
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Roseate Hotels and Resorts will now be delivering gourmet delicacies at your doorstep. Kheer — a fine dining Indian restaurant, and Roasted by Roseate — their in- house barista, are now all set to do home deliveries.
The Home Delivery menu has been meticulously designed to include the choicest delicacies from Roasted by Roseate like macaroons, sandwiches, burgers and more. Whereas Kheer speciality options include Tandoori Paneer Tikka, Silbatte Ki Shammi, Murgh Kolhapuri, Chukundar Chilgoze Ki Tikki, Murg Malai Tikka, Malabar Fish, Dal Makhani, Badam Cake, Kalakand Tart etc.
The hotel also confirmed that it is colluding with food aggregators like Zomato & Swiggy as well as for taking direct orders for Roasted by Roseate.
While Roasted By Roseate would be taking direct orders for Chanakyapuri, Westend, Shanti Niketan, Anand Niketan, Vasant Vihar, Westend Green Farms, The Green Farms, Grand Westend Farms; Kheer would be present on Zomato & Swiggy. Customers can place their order for Roasted by Roseate over WhatsApp on +91 95997 87366.
8. Sarovar Hotels
As a part of their #Thinkingofyouandcaringforyou initiative, the Sarovar Hotels have initiated home delivery service, where many of its hotels have curated a special menu with selected 30 to 35 dishes from Indian to continental to Chinese, and some confectioneries as well. The hotel is also promoting touchless delivery as well as payment method. The hotels that have come up with the service include Balaji Sarovar Premiere, Solapur, Park Plaza, Faridabad, Park Plaza, Zirakpur via Zomato, Kalyan Hometel in Vandalur, Chennai, and Davanam Sarovar Portico Suites in Bengaluru also via Zomato.
9. InterContinental Hotel Group
InterContinental Chennai Mahabalipuram Resort has started a programme called Food on Wheels, wherein patrons can choose from a selection of freshly baked breads, western and continental mains, Indian curries as well as Asian and Chinese delicacies alongside select desserts to be delivered straight to their homes. For this, the dishes will be crafted using hygienic practices at their restaurant, The Melting Pot. Orders for food need to be made a day prior before 9:00 pm IST by a call. Food, once prepared fresh, is delivered to patrons between 08:00 to 09:00 am IST (breads), 12:30 to 1:30 pm (lunch), and 06:30 to 07:30 pm (dinner).
10. Shangri-La’s-Eros Hotel, New Delhi
Shangri-La’s-Eros Hotel, New Delhi, has started takeaway service to bring exotic cuisine straight to your home. One of its restaurants Tamra has curated a special takeaway menu prepared with high-quality ingredients, hygiene and care to ensure your safety and comfort. The menu comprises of both Indian as well as continental dishes. Some of them include — Murgh Tikka, Butter Chicken, Ambala Mutton Curry, Tawa biryani, Pasta, Asian bowl, etc.
11. ITC Hotels
ITC Hotels has partnered with Zomato to offer its customers responsible dining experiences at the comfort of their home. Zomato will not only enable ‘contactless’ deliveries on all pre-paid orders but will also provide patrons of ITC Hotels the option of Takeaway menus. The hotel chain has also introduced two unique gourmet experiences — ‘Gourmet Couch’ and ‘Flavours’ — which have received overwhelming feedback from diners across India and are now available on Zomato as well.
While ‘Gourmet Couch by ITC Hotels’ offers exclusively curated menus from ITC Hotels signature brands, delivered at the guest’s residence under stringent ‘WeAssure’ hygiene and safety protocol, ‘Flavours by ITC Hotels’ showcases an array of authentic global culinary delights and also celebrates indigenous flavours of the region with the chain’s culinary initiative — ‘Local Love’.
Zomato has implemented eight Max Safety measures to ensure the utmost safety of food, which require restaurants to follow WHO practices, provide contactless delivery, make wearing of masks compulsory for both the restaurant staff as well as delivery partners, make sure the kitchen staff and the delivery partners undergo temperature checks, install sanitisation stations for them, and mandated the use of Aarogya Setu app.
ITC Hotels has also implemented stringent measures and protocols, including mandatory temperature checks for all Chefs and Food & Beverage associates. Moreover, the special take-out counter at each ITC Hotel has been enhanced with hand sanitisers and thermometers to corroborate the health parameters of local food delivery partners.
ITC Hotels would commence the home delivery and takeaway venture with Zomato at properties such ITC Maurya, New Delhi, ITC Maratha, Mumbai, ITC Grand Central, Mumbai, ITC Royal Bengal, Kolkata, ITC Grand Chola, Chennai, ITC Gardenia and ITC Windsor, Bengaluru, ITC Kohenur and ITC Kakatiya, Hyderabad, ITC Rajputana, Jaipur, ITC Mughal, Agra, ITC Grand Goa, Goa, Welcomhotel in Chennai, Bengaluru, Vadodara and Coimbatore.
12. The Leela Palace New Delhi
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The Leela Palace New Delhi has come forward to deliver its culinary creations at your doorstep so that you can indulge in the meticulously crafted delicacies with close friends and family in the comfort of your home. The hotel’s Master Chefs have crafted a special menu to bring to you their delectable offerings, packed and delivered with utmost safety by a team of experts, keeping in mind all advanced protocols established under #LeelaSuraksha – a comprehensive safety programme that ensures best practices to protect the guests. Their range of delicacies includes Qube specialities, fresh grills, authentic Indian, selections from Asian cuisine and more. The hotel is also offering a 10 per cent discount on takeaway orders.