With the warmth of an endearingly eccentric relative, 86-year-old Boman Kohinoor of Britannia Restaurant, tel: (91-22) 2261 5264, in south Mumbai, exclaims, “You must try the berry pulav,
which my wife introduced in 1982 after returning from a trip to Iran.” A waiter appears moments later with saffron golden rice and tender chunks of curried potatoes, fried cashews, wisps of crispy onions and ruby-red barberries imported from Tehran. “In Iran, the food is dry and bland by Indian standards so my wife experimented to find the right spices to liven up the dish,” says Kohinoor. “But the exact recipe is a closely guarded family secret.”
