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Harried waiting for a delayed flight? Relax at the popular Spanish Tapas Bar at Chennai's International airport
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Photo: N. Sridharan
AT ZARA’S Get Nicholas Hawkins (left) and Sebastian Galvee Bunge to fix you a mean martini
Picking up random relatives
from the airport
has just got a lot more
interesting. Zara, the
city's ever popular Spanish
Tapas Bar opened at the
Chennai International Airport
on Sunday, adding some
much needed pizzazz to the
long dreary waits associated
with both arrivals and
departures.
Set above the food court,
right next to the International
departure section, the restaurant-
bar is large, airy and
cheerful, seating about 75. If
you're a Zara regular, you'll
find that the group has decided
to stay with the spirit of
the original, so there are familiar
cocktails, familiar food
and - perhaps best of all - familiar faces, led by Bublu,
who will be managing this
outlet. Besides all the usual
suspects, Bublu says they
are also expecting this Zara
to become a haven for the
Chennai-today Delhi-tomorrow
type of business men
and women, who fly into
the city for meetings and
then catch the first flight
out - thus inevitably getting
stuck at the airport for
long stretches of time.
Zara's Sebastian Galvez
Bunge, who has been with
the bar right from when it
opened, is now busy creating
new cocktails, even as
the team behind Zara makes
plans for its debut in cities
across India, including Calcutta
and Bangalore. Their
latest coup is bartender
Nick Hawkins from the
U.K., who was previously
with Distil, Taj Connemera.
The proceeds from the
first day's earnings were
donated to the Alpha to
Omega Learning Centre,
which specialises in helping
children with learning
disabilities.
The best part? The bar
overlooks `International Departures'
so you get a fascinating
view of the
ever-changing human scenery.
The second best part?
Getting to relax over a
chilled watermelon martini
as you wait for yet another
grotesquely delayed flight
instead of fighting for elbow
room with yet another
shrill, sticky-fingered child.
SHONALI MUTHALALY
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