Tier-2 India is finally eating fine dining — and the chefs are local

Lucknow, Indore, Coimbatore and Visakhapatnam are seeing a wave of chef-led, ticketed-menu restaurants. The interesting part: the chefs are mostly hometown returners.

Karnataka carves out cloud-kitchen zoning in new urban food policy

Bengaluru, Mysuru and Mangaluru get explicit cloud-kitchen land-use categories under Karnataka’s 2026 urban food policy, ending years of ambiguity for operators.

FSSAI tightens front-of-pack nutrition labelling for ready-to-eat meals

New rules require salt, sugar and saturated-fat warnings on the front of all packaged ready-to-eat meals from October 2026, with cloud kitchens not exempt.

Aahar 2026 returns to Bharat Mandapam with focus on sustainable packaging

India's biggest hospitality trade show announces a dedicated hall for compostable and reusable packaging, plus a new Chef Innovation Pavilion.

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