The Food Oscars -Chennai 2010

The Food Oscars happened in Chennai last week . Well we at mocha have been nominated and kinda been on the winning spree for the last few years in the category "Best Coffee Bar". We have already received this award in cities like Delhi , Bangalore ,Pune and of course on our home turf ..Mumbai. Our office wall dons about 16 such awards won in the above mentioned cities.

The other brands that compete are Barista ,Cafe Coffee Day , Costa Coffee , Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf and Coffee World ... All nominees are judged on level of service , ambiance, menu offerings and consistent guest feed back ... Well luckily we head all ...hehhehhehahahaha.

Winners are announced 2 weeks in advance. and all award winners are supposed to display their best at the award function. This function also has the Launch of the Times Food & Night Life Guide for that particular city . So actually on the day of the awards one can taste the best food of the city and bump into all the leading chefs & Restauranters.

So Chef Andrew (our Executive Chef of Commissary's) and myself flew down to Chennai to receive our priceless possession. Along with our props we had some of our mise en place done in Mumbai itself so that we don't waste time in Chennai.

We were to do an extremely simple menu ...nothing lavish as we had o be in Chennai for only 1 day before the awards . So out menu comprised of

Cup Cakes

Carrot Cake

Cake Lollies

Lemon & Apple Pie Shooters

Strawberry Canapes

Air sprayed Chocolate Mousse

Gooey Walnut Brownies

Brownie & Krischwasser Pears

Blue berry Cream Cheese torte

Strawberry Canapes / Air Sprayed Chocolate mousse .

Cup Cakes /cake Lollies/Apple & Lemon Pie Shooters /Strawberry Canapes .

j 2 mousse cake /Brownie & Kirschwasser Pears /Cup Cakes / Carrot Cake with Cream cheese Frosting .


60% Dark Chocolate Ganache torte /Walnut Brownies /Blueberry Cream Cheese Totre

A lot of of other restaurants did showcase their food ...but I remained busy for the rest of the evening entertaining guests at our counter ...

The Better news is that I just got a call yesterday that we had won the best Coffee Bar in Mumbai too and also our Italian Restaurant "Delitalia" won for the best stand alone restaurant .

To the Mumbai Star studded food Oscar night will be with full gusto and I shall be back with more pics ....

Congrats team Mocha....