Apple pies, waffles, cupcakes, authentic gelatos and ice-creams are among desserts that are on offer at the NDMC Palate Mini 2015, a food festival that begins here on Friday.
The three-day event spread over the weekend at Nehru Park is a miniature version of the civic body’s debut Palate Festival, a grand affair held last November and will showcase food from leading cafes and delis, say organisers.
Festival founders Ruchi Bansal and Aditi Kapoor credit the inception of the mini food festival to the “huge success and encoring demand” for the parent fest.
“There was a lot of demand and it seems people just couldn’t wait for an entire year to please their taste buds. Since, it was not possible to organise another food festival on such a huge scale in this short span of time, we decided to come up with this mini fest,” says Mr. Kapoor.
Albeit the menu at the festival, like the Palate, will hail from around the globe the focus, the founders say, will be on indulging sweet tooth of the visitors.
“This is also, like the Palate, an all encompassing festival that will invite people to come out in the sun and indulge in a plethora of delicacies. But, desserts will certainly be the main attraction,” says Mr. Bansal.
She says the Mini Palate has been conceived keeping in mind Delhi’s pleasant climate during this time of the year.
“While the Palate menu was more suited to the chill of winter, this time it will welcome spring and summer,” she says.
Fifteen of Delhi’s top restaurants and 30 gourmet market vendors are participating in the festival.
The Leela Palace Hotel would be launching its patisserie at the food festival and presenting a wide range of bite-sized chocolate surprises, macaroons, pastries and cakes curated by pastry chef Rishabh Anand and his culinary team.
