The Feedback book is Thin at Kalash

Kalash, a multi-cuisine restaurant at the HHI, Kolkata offers the following cuisines to its customers: Mughlai, Hyderabadi, Luknowi and Bengali. A visit to this restaurant is more than just sitting down at a table, ordering food, having it, paying the bill and leaving. On a poetic note, HHI has presented a Kalash of exquisite dining facilities to the people staying in Kolkata. The walls of this place are draped with lush, wall hangings that, in turn are enriched with intricate artwork. What more, a look at these hangings for a couple of minutes in fact tells you interesting tales of our history; to be more specific, of our kings and queens. The furnishings are garbed in radiant colors that always bring a smile to the face. Further, the overall ambience of the Kalash in some way manages to provide a trip down the memory lane, only this time, the memory is one that we have read about in our history books. In short, the Kalash among all the HHI hotels in Kolkata, Varanasi, Pune, Bhubaneswar and Bengaluru coupled together with all other Indian luxury hotels is literally worth a visit.

The dining options at the Kalash revolve around four cuisines: Mughlai, Hyderabadi, Luknowi and Bengali. Innovation is also the hallmark of this place with some of the dishes deserving the title solely due to their preparation alone. Some examples are given below.

Gosht Nalli Ayodhya: It is a lamb preparation with the meat drowsed in a thick, creamy sauce created using traditional ingredients

Samundri Malvani: A combination of prawn and bhetki and prepared in the typical Konkani fashion

Murg Qurmay Ki Biryani: A biryani prepared in the traditional dum technique but flavoured with herbs while following an ancient recipe; this preparation dates back to 1910 and happened to be a favorite preparation from the kitchen of Maibood Ali Pasha, the 6th Nizam of Hyderabad.

There are many other examples that deserve to be consumed – literally. However, one has to visit Kalash to experience first-hand the essence of this jewel of eateries among the hotels in Kolkata.

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The City of Joy is Resplendent with HHI

The hotel industry in India is full of case studies that never fail to skip a beat in the minds of all those people who enter through the gates of HHI – rather, through the gates of any of its five hotels in India (One each in Kolkata, Pune, Bengaluru, Bhubaneswar and Varanasi). The rate at which customers are associating these hotels with a glittering world of distinguished features is rising extremely quickly. Hotels in Kolkata, Pune and other Indian cities are brimming with amenities to die for – as they say in the movies – when it comes to making countless hearts warm up with the glow of satisfaction.

The HHI, Kolkata has been present in the city for quite some time now; its brand has been boosted in a manner unseen and unheard of in the entire hotel industry. Its legendary restaurants, the Kalash and the Oriental Express, keep on churning yummy dishes that are becoming into the best ones among their entire brethren. Therefore, as far as the Kalash is concerned, guests can always expect a quintessential assortment of mouth-watering delicacies. Further, The Oriental Express is redefining the entire meaning of perfect Oriental cooking.

The HHI, Varanasi and the HHI, Pune engage in a healthy competition with the HHI, Kolkata, the HHI Select Bengaluru and the HHI, Bhubaneswar when it comes to bringing smiles on the faces of its guests. Their kitchens work hard to make scrumptious reasons to sit at the dinner table not once, but frequently. Further, innovative marketing strategies like the organization of food festivals and musical events do well enough to add that glitzy touch to the overall presentation of hotel amenities here.

On a closing note, the HHIs do not fail to measure up to the expectations of their guests – literally. This is not a wanton claim at all; rather, a real one. After all, one needs to see the number of people visiting the HHI, Kolkata, for instance among all the hotels in Kolkata.

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Turn your Events into a Lifetime Memory with HHI Banquets

Time and again HHI hotels stood as the epitome of luxury for its customers. Starting from comfortable accommodations to elegant banquet halls, the hotel always showed its excellence through a flawless hospitality and an immaculate service.

With a royal ambience and stunning decoration, the banquets have been intricately designed to conduct special events that are sure to turn into a lifetime memory. Slightly different from the stereotypical amenities, the hotel boasts a wide array of features required for a grand stay in the heart of Kolkata.

The different kinds of banquets in this hotel are as follows-

Topaz-

This U-Shaped style hall which has a huge seating capacity ideal for conferences, dinner and lunch parties, marriage parties, formal meets of companies, etc.

Silver Tulip-

Featuring a sophisticated arrangement, this elegant U-Shaped hall is perfect for hosting wedding receptions, lunch and dinner buffets, corporate seminars, business meetings, etc.

Regency-

This is a 1800 Sq.ft. hall having a U-Shaped style suitable for executing lunch and dinner buffets, weddings, business conferences, formal meetings of companies and many other similar events.

Senate-

This hall has two sections Senate I & II, each of has an area of 600 Sq.ft. The U-Shaped banquet is ideal for hosting special events like corporate seminars, conferences, lunch and dinner buffets, wedding receptions, etc.

Boardroom-

This is a 600 Sq.ft hall which is exclusively used for corporate events.

Pool Banquets-

The U-Shaped hall has been beautifully designed to conduct important events like marriage parties, business events, lunch and dinner buffets and many more.

Zodiac-

A 1700 Sq.ft hall which is intricately designed for grand events like conferences, formal meetings of companies, marriage parties, etc.

Phoenix-

Holding a vast seating arrangement, this U-Shaped hall has an area of 2300 Sq.ft., suitable for your dream events.

Corporate events such as seminars, business parties, etc, at this hotel are conducted with utmost care. For such events, the arrangements are done with a touch of sophistication. The halls are equipped with modern technologies that are suitable to host business presentations nicely. Once you book the halls in this supreme hotel in Kolkata, be assured that your dream events will be executed successfully.

Weddings are always a significant part of life and HHI banquets are an ideal choice to organize such life events gracefully. Starting from decoration to the culinary section, everything is taken care of perfectly.

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HHI: A Platform For Culinary Excellence

Life in the hotel industry is a diverse one with innovative campaigns on the increase. This has become into more or less a consistent activity with all notable names having brought the required implementation. The hotel scenario in India is not an exception in this regard with the element of innovation having been molded to forge impressive marketing strategies that are simply meeting all expectations. When it comes to citing examples, the HHI group stands tall with its smart and innovative strategies enthralling residents at large in the following cities: Kolkata, Varanasi, Bhubaneswar, Bengaluru and Pune. Further, when it comes to digging deep into the scenario of examples, HHI hotels in Pune and Kolkata deserve special mention.

The HHI, Pune is created with a mindset of merging the heritage of the bygone era with the modern facilities of the current age. As a result, this hotel uses rich, decorated drapes for covering its tables and chairs and prefers using wall hangings that tell different tales about the glory of the Marathas. When it comes to food, the Eye Club of the HHI, Pune does justice to the meaning of a ‘scrumptious affair’ with each and every single dish that it creates.

The cuisines that are followed at this hotel are the ones that work together with the Peshwa cuisine to bring forth an array of exquisite tools for satisfying hunger. Note, that this hunger is not only about eating but also about investing one’s eyes and minds to a myriad of splendors from the bygone age.

HHI, Pune’s ability is not a standalone fact with all HHI hotels sharing it. However, the best among all the other hotels is the HHI, Kolkata. The gateway to exquisite and endless opportunities to satisfy oneself is standing on the pillar stones of Kalash and The Oriental Express – two, fantastic restaurants that merge taste with style in a manner that is creating headlines all over the country.

If one is to consider the performance in terms of the city, then the hotels in Pune, Varanasi, Bengaluru, Bhubaneswar and Kolkata are host to magnificent performances of the HHI hotels.

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It’s Always A Delicious Affair With HHI

Situated at one of the prime locations of Bengaluru, the HHI Select, Bengaluru is one of those hotels in Bangalore that believe in presenting a complete package of feasible amenities to its guests in a luxurious manner.

The city of Bengaluru has had a fantastic lineage of the royal nature with its surrounding state once being the playground of the Nizams – the famed kings of that region who made their names into legendary ones.

The HHI Select, Bengaluru provides quintessential accommodation options for its guests and complements those options with exquisite dining avenues that manifest themselves in the shape of restaurants. Therefore, the Onyx presents exquisite facilities to guests in terms of diverse cuisines filled with mouth-watering delicacies that are worth more than one, single bite.

The cuisines that are presented at the Onyx include the conventional ones that find their way into the menu of the maximum number of eateries operating today. These cuisines include north Indian, Continental and Chinese. A speciality of the Onyx is the feature of cooked-to-order meals. These meals are prepared as per the preferences of the guests and, therefore, have no set cuisine. Rather, they are completely dependent on their innovative streaks in terms of taste and diversity.

The interiors of the Onyx is fused with modern amenities that are conceivable and the exteriors, i.e. the hotel itself is fused with multiple and extremely innovative facilities that never fail to bring a smile even on the most glum of faces.

The HHI Select, Bengaluru shares a wealth of similarities with other HHI hotels like the HHI, Kolkata and the HHI, Varanasi. For example, all three hotels share the aspect of culture-oriented theme incorporation in their restaurants. Further, all three hotels have excellent banquet halls that are able to host chic corporate conferences to bustling wedding parties. On a closing note, the entire pool of the hotels in Bangalore is witnessing the stroke of genius in the hotel industry that the whole world knows as the HHI Select, Bengaluru. 

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Bengaluru And HHI Is An Illustrious Saga

The hotels in Bangalore have been fulfilling the requirements of guests in a manner as swift as the life of the city. The HHI Select, Bengaluru is one of the dominant presence among these hotels with a long history of serving exquisite hotel facilities that are second to none in terms of their overall ability to appease customers. It has been incorporating its long-term industry expertise for accomplishing the same.

A couple of industries across the world have been making a name for themselves in terms of their innovative outlooks in addition to their tenacious and methodical hard work that they share with the entire lot of industries that are in place today. This element of innovation is visible the most in the hotel industry with multiple hotels across the world having come up with facilities and features that are truly out-of-the-box.

The result is an abundance of satisfied customers from different corners of the world. The flourishing hotel industry has been contributing to the tourism industry of different countries by simply providing high quality accommodation options for people during their vacations or business trips.

The hotels that are operated under the HHI group of hotels are again fantastic examples for illustrating the essence of the above paragraph. There are five hotels in total across India bearing the brand HHI: HHI, Kolkata, HHI, Varanasi, HHI, Bhubaneswar, HHI Select, Bengaluru, and HHI, Pune. The business formulae followed by the management of these hotels has a common thread: the utilization of the culinary aspects of surrounding regions. For example:

• HHI, Kolkata displays the ethnic luxury of Bengal
• HHI, Varanasi displays the grandeur of India’s Spiritual Capital
• HHI, Pune resurrects the age-old delicacies of the Peshawari cuisine
• HHI, Bhubaneswar presents a grand old collection of pan-Indian delicacies
• HHI Select, Bengaluru displays the secular nature through the provision of culinary
delights stemming from every region of India

Therefore, the HHI Select, Bengaluru is one of the best hotels in Bangalore today and certainly promises tons of gateways to eternal delight.

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HHI: It’s a New Experience Every Time You Enter

Recurring customers are ones that visit multiple times, and for HHI, they are coming in a surge – one that is refusing to say QUITS! This is a fantastic situation for the hotel chain because such a surge means a booming business with profit figures guaranteed. The grass root reality is the fact that HHI is yet to record a financial statement featuring negative vibes in the form of loss figures and non-performing assets – if one is to use financial jargon here! With hotels in Kolkata and four other Indian cities (Varanasi, Bengaluru, Bhubaneswar and Pune), HHI is defying all possible odds and hurdles in its path of complete entrepreneurial prosperity.

From the human standpoint, if a hotel were to have a feminine manifestation – one that features the quintessential statistics – then, people would be UNABLE to keep their eyes and their minds of it. Apart from this poetic illustration, there can’t be a better description of HHI’s performance as a hotel group.

HHI’s hotel in the City of Joy has been vested with countless properties generally associated with luxury hotel chains; it has gone a mile more with its constant presentation of facilities that are simply innovative renditions of stereotypical hotel amenities, for example, the organization of food festivals meant for showcasing the culinary worth.

As an example, HHI, Kolkata organized the Greek Food Festival in the month of June this year – it would not be too ambitious too say that even the Greeks would have loved this festival. Coming back to reality, the people of Kolkata turned at the hotel in large numbers during the entire time period of the festival. All the major delicacies of the Greek cuisine were featured and met with tremendous amount of appreciation for the large-hearted people of Kolkata.

The HHI, Pune and the HHI, Varanasi are the hotels in Pune and Varanasi that have been organizing such festivals with a similar pace – much to the delight of the people living there.

Every year, loads of tourists arrive at India and, the HHI’s guestbook has been replaced countless times within a single month due to having run out – If one asks why, then the answer would be the fact that the number of tourists that choose HHI hotels as their accommodation choices has been large and, what more, increasing.

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HHI: A Presence in its Own Respect

The Indian hotel scenario today is one that is host to thriving businesses operated by hotel groups. The HHI group of hotels is of them that have achieved an image so stolid and formidable that the word perfection is slowly but surely being associated with its services. People visiting its hotels in Pune, Kolkata, Varanasi, Bhubaneswar and Bengaluru have been singing endless praises about the way it has provided the traditional hotel amenities in a culturally rich manner.

All the HHI hotels that are in place today share the common vision of making their services into manifestations of perfection. They are in place in the Indian continent for a long time, and, they have been working brilliantly towards achieving that vision.

If one were to take individual examples, then the first one in the list is the HHI Varanasi with its wealth of features. This hotel has garbed its amenities with glittering robes of heritage and culture and has taken the leap forward into utter euphoria through upholding the culinary delights of the Peshawari cuisine in more ways than one.

The next in the list would be the HHI Select, Bengaluru which has matched the fast-paced lifestyle of the city with its sharp and dapper presentation of hotel amenities – in short, it has harbored the Bengaluru lifestyle by providing services to the optimum quantity. Therefore, guests at this hotel will see a wealth of luxurious features but at an optimum amount.

Finally, the HHI, Kolkata deserves special mention owing to its versatile facilities, exquisite dining and awesome events and festivals that take place every single month. For example, the Greek Food Fest took place in the month of June and highlighted the features of the Grecian cuisine to its utmost ability.

Perhaps, a snapshot about the HHI group of hotels is the sole purpose of this write-up. However, readers should visit the hotel itself for finding its true worth – which is beyond the scope of this write-up due to its ever-increasing nature. This is not a city based phenomenon but one taking place across India, i.e. across all HHI hotels in Pune, Kolkata, Varanasi, Bhubaneswar and Bengaluru.

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Dining is Always a Special Affair at HHI

Luxury dining in Kolkata has taken on a new look with the arrival of Kalash at the HHI, Kolkata. It has presented luscious dishes with a rich heritage in a presentation that apart from being absolutely delicious are also works of art.

The hotels that are present in Kolkata are blessed with the insight of understanding the requirements of customers beforehand with the HHI harnessing the benefits of this tradition in the best way possible. The chefs working at Kalash know their ‘work’ in terms of cooking and preparing dishes with the panache of their great-great grandfathers of the same trade – the ones who used to decorate the finished dishes before presenting them onto the dinner tables of kings and queens.

The level of research that has been undertaken in the formulation of the recipes behind these dishes is quite impressive. Further, these chefs have travelled all over the country in search for hints and clues that will lead them to the exact recipe of dishes like the Lazeez Pasliyan.

In addition to their endeavors, they also make it a point to spread their knowledge across all the other HHI hotels; therefore, frequent and monthly visits to Varanasi, Pune, Bengaluru and Bhubaneswar are a reality.

Then there is the brand positioning genius that has blessed all HHI hotels with a wonderful inclusion of culture and culinary – all together in a manner that has been unseen and unheard before in the hotel industry.

These days, the entire hotel scenario in India has become well-aware about the finesse of the chefs working at Kalash in resurrecting heritage dishes. In fact, a large number of benchmarks have been set by these chefs that are followed with the utmost of dedication and passion.

To sum up, the luxury dining in India is a scenario worthy of multiple achievements with the arrival of the Kalash! It may be operating in Kolkata but its fame is now a national one!

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