This super-luxurious property is one that proudly displays its gargantuan appetite for attracting—and impressing—local guests and travellers. There are seven F&B options, plentiful for even the longest-staying guest to not get bored, and really more than enough for a conference party of say 4-5 days’ duration. There is 24,000 sq ft of event and meeting spaces, making it a decent rival for the zone’s main convention centre.
Let’s talk food first. Because it is fantastic. There is Akira Back, the trendy fine-dining restaurant serving Japanese-meets-Korean cuisine by a celeb chef. It has a two-storey sake wall; a skateboard-sized sashimi platter; a sashimi-ish tuna pizza; a cold corn soup that comes garnished with avocado, beet and…popcorn dust; a pumpkin, shitake, eggplant and asparagus sushi roll that is a revelation; and a lavish choice of mix-and-match robatayaki grills. Note especially a stunning array of vegetarian options to match the meatier menu course for course.
Then there is K3, the largest, most varied crowd-pleaser of a glocal all-day dining restaurant we have recently met, with comfort food turned stylish across three micro-regional cuisines for the trio of ovens that ground the three main show kitchens: the Old Delhi-style tandoor’s domain with nalli and a bold sela chawal biryani instead of the starched shirt basmati to sit beside seasonal vegetables like bottle gourd; a Cantonese kitchen with a duck oven and divine fresh dumplings and delicate broths; and a Tuscan hearth with pizza oven, of course, but also a curious propensity for canning its own tomatoes, just like chef’s mama used to make.
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Down the hallway are the seriously zealous Oval Bar with a wine list that means business, and further on the expansive JW Lounge that adds on frisky little cocktails to sip out in the cabanas. Round the corner, at the other end of the L-shaped lobby sits DBC aka the Delhi Baking Company with its speciality teas and coffees, good to enjoy with a croque monsieur and a good book off the shelves.
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There is also the Pool Bar. Which, of course, means there is an outdoor pool, and a fitness centre. As for the Quan spa, we have no hesitation recommending that you drop in for the Jet Lag Cure.
The rooms? Oh yes, also expansive, with four-fixture marble-hewn bathrooms, featherbeds with down comforters, Aromatherapy Associates amenities. Yeah, just the essential expectations from a flight-fatigued traveller.
OVERVIEW: Top-flight service and amenities; F&B consistently exceeds all expectations; more meeting space than we know what they will do with TARIFF: From Rs 10,900 a night CONTACT: +91-11-45212151, www.marriott.com