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La Dolce Vita : A Valentine’s Dinner｜Wine and Wasabi™

Our first pop-up dinner of this decade celebrates both the joys of being single and having brilliant friends, companions, or partners who make an otherwise awful day better from far or near, just by being there. Book a spot now!

“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”
George Bernard Shaw

Till date, the best Valentine’s Day I’ve ever had is one I spent drunk out of my mind with my best friend, back in 2016. We were both very single, hated the idea of the day being only for couples, wanted to shake things up, and more importantly, take control.

With my partner, V-Day feels like a bit of a farce. As mushy as we might be, heart shaped pizzas aren’t really for us. After several failed attempts at meeting all kinds of impossible expectations, we decided to host a dinner last year to celebrate a truer love: the love we have for food.

But over the years, I haven’t been able to forget the day I spent with Besto and how much it has come to mean to me.

And so our first rooftop dinner of this decade celebrates both the joys of being single and having brilliant friends, companions, or partners who make an otherwise awful day better from far or near, just by being there.

The new seven-course menu is inspired by the various girls nights I’ve had over the years along with traditional romance/breakup flavours and is a selection I turn to often for comfort in my pyjamas, complete with shots (so no driving on the way back, please)!

Details:

Date: 14th February, 2020
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Cover charge: ₹2000 per head (all inclusive)
Address: Accessible area in Salt Lake, Kolkata (easily reached via both City Centre and the Bypass).
Contact: +91-8697406710

Simply fill up this form and we’re good to go!*

*limited spots, as always

Dissendium: An Evening at Hogwarts｜Wine and Wasabi™

Bring your love for the wizarding world to this one-of-a-kind eight-course dinner that no Potterhead would want to miss!

A disappointed muggle goes about her life still believing in magic. It’s a little weird to explain to people, and lonely even with the massive fandom all around you.

There’s so much about that world that I wanted to experience. Most importantly, but probably not limited to butterbeer.

Wands and charms and everything else aside, butterbeer – whatever this curious alcoholic, caramel flavoured, hot/cold beverage is – seems like it’s something us muggles will have to only wonder about forever. No matter how ‘authentic’ a version they’re serving at Harry Potter World pales in comparison to the taste and meaning of the real thing.

Butterbeer, Hogwarts, and everything around it has come to mean so much to our world over the years. A symbol of warmth, friendship and belonging for the magical folk, yes, but Merlin’s beard! It’s exactly the same for us non-magical folk too…

“All I want to do is be at Hogwarts with you, eating turkey legs in the great hall while listening to the carols of the ghosts gliding past us. Then maybe we can go to Hogsmeade to get a butterbeer.”
Eternal Youth by Maria Elena

This world is a place where we feel like we belonged more than where we are at times. It’s unrequited love. It’s the little things. The sense of familiarity and camaraderie you feel when you come across someone else who recognises the most subtle of references, or isn’t bewildered by:

“I’m so hungry I could eat a Hippogriff…”
Ron Weasley in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

You waited for that letter and were crushed when it didn’t arrive. I know I was.

It would’ve been the stuff of your wildest dreams or a ticket to get out of where you are and wanted to escape from, or anything else. No one hopes for a letter from a boarding school, and yet…

It’s taken you years to reconcile yourself to your non-magic fate.

But. Here’s an escape for a night. A chance to find that hidden passageway away from whatever it is you need a break from. It’s temporary and inspired from a place of intense longing, love and the delicious food that always appears out of nowhere.

“zis ‘eavy ‘ogwarts food”
Fleur Delacour in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

This eight-course dinner is back for food lovers to enjoy a meal in the company of similar minded people and experience an open day at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry…through food!

Pssst….we’ll be preparing a few intoxicating potions too and recommend you don’t drive home.

Take the Knight Bus instead!

Details:

Date: An Evening in December, 2019 (exact date forthcoming)
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Cover charge: ₹2300 per head (all inclusive)
Address: Accessible area in New Town, Kolkata (easily reached from Novotel).
Contact: +91-8697406710

Simply fill up this form and we’re good to go!*

*limited spots, as always

Jolly Good Food: The Enid Blyton Pop-Up｜Wine and Wasabi™

“A large ham sat on the table, and there were crusty loaves of new bread. Crisp lettuces, dewy and cool, and red radishes were side by side in a big glass dish, great slabs of butter and jugs of creamy milk. ”
Enid Blyton, Five Go To Billycock Hill

Be it The Famous Five or Malory Towers, these simple, yet appealing descriptions form the heart of the love so many of us share for Enid Blyton and her stories. From ginger beer or Silky’s pop cakes to the plain boiled egg, these stories found a way to make them all feel very mouthwatering and exciting.

The entire journey of Wine and Wasabi™ started out with us trying to create our own tribute to these escapist treats in the best way we know : cooking! That became our first pop-up, and the rest (hopefully) is history.

Caving to requests, we’re doing it again. This time with a new menu (see below) to make things more interesting. Bring your love for these cherished childhood classics to this one-of-a-kind six-course rooftop dinner that no fan would want to miss!

Details:

Date: Saturday, 30th March, 2019
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Cover charge: ₹1000 per head (all inclusive)
Address: Accessible area in Salt Lake, Kolkata (easily reached via both City Centre and the Bypass).
Contact: +91-8697406710

Simply fill up this form and we’re good to go!*

La Dolce Vita : A Pop-Up Dinner｜Wine and Wasabi™

Celebrate food, it’s with you from the very beginning, through your first dates to your breakups and everyday in between with a multi-course Italian (with a dash of the French) inspired rooftop dinner by Wine and Wasabi™.

“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”
George Bernard Shaw

Valentine’s day is built up (and sold) to be so much (and so many) things at the same time, but ultimately never is. Be it because of people involved or just because of how things are, things (or someone, or a dynamic, moment, or day) are so rigidly supposed to be a certain way but either simply aren’t or worse, cannot be at all. It’s tiring, even stressful sometimes. And it can begin to get stifling…

Not the case with food however. You know exactly what you’re getting in for, are rarely disappointed, and with us there’s an almost guaranteed happy ending in the works for you here.

This dinner is to celebrate food (whether alone, with your loved ones, or with interesting strangers), that which is with you from the very beginning, every step of the way, in every kind of relationship, including through your first dates to your breakups and everyday in between with an eight-course Italian (with a dash of the French) inspired rooftop dinner by Wine and Wasabi™.

Details:

Date: 13th February, 2019
Time: 7 pm – 9:30 pm
Cover charge: ₹2100 per head (all inclusive)
Address: Accessible area in Salt Lake, Kolkata (easily reached via both City Centre and the Bypass).
Contact: +91-8697406710

Simply fill up this form and we’re good to go!*

*limited spots, as always