Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants List:
Indian Accent, Avartana make the cut; Gaggan Anand top Indian restaurant overseas 

Produced by Mehak Agarwal
Designed by: Pragati

Manish Mehrotra’s Indian Accent, based in Delhi, was featured in Asia’s 50 Best Restaurant List. 

Indian Accent 

Indian Accent menu

Some famous items on the menu are pao bhaji, herb ricotta winter saag tart with sweetcorn, masala coconut custard with chironji and date jaggery. 

The restaurant also has a dedicated bread bar featuring over 11 types of bread including wild mushroom kulcha drizzled with truffle oil and pink peppercorn and jalapeno roti

Indian Accent’s bread bar 

Indian Accent's speciality 

Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants List reads, “Season after season, year after year, chef Manish Mehrotra’s inventive tasting menus have played judiciously with his country’s palate to craft truly unique takes on the classics of the Indian subcontinent”

ITC Grand Chola Avartana, based in Chennai, was another Indian to make it to Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants List 

ITC Grand Chola Avartana 

Some famous dishes are beetroot and curd cheese, cuttlefish with black garlic, chargrilled pork belly with steamed tapioca, and fennel pannacotta egg dessert 

ITC Grand Chola
Avartana menu

Chef Nikhil Nagpal led the kitchen team at Avartana and oversaw the opening of a new restaurant in Kolkata

ITC Grand Chola
Avartana head chef

Gaggan Anand's restaurant is one of the top-ranked Indian restaurant overseas. His Bangkok restaurant entered this year’s Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants List after a year of temporary closure 

Gaggan Anand

Lick It Up (Holi gulal made using vegetable dyes), Flower Power featuring goat’s brain mousse and Brain Freeze icecream are some iconic dishes from this Bangkok restaurant

Gaggan Anand’s dishes

Other restaurants on the list are Le Du (Bangkok), Sezanne (Tokyo), Nusara (Bangkok), Den (Tokyo), Labyrinth (Singapore), Mosu (Seoul), Fu He Hui (Shanghai)

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