Sunday food walks

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Ramzan food walk

When Shashank Aggarwal started a community called Eatlo — a food community for foodies, by foodies — he never imagined how many people in the city harboured a similar passion. Talking about food, his favourite topic, he says, “I am an entrepreneur by profession and a foodie by passion.

When I started Eatlo, my only aim was to create a platform where people could eat, meet, shoot, share, write and talk about food. It’s an open community that we started on a social-networking site a year-and-a-half ago, and since then, every week we conduct Sunday food walks with a mixed group of people like students, tourists and professionals.”
Similarly, Anubhav Sapra, a self-confessed food addict, revived the joy of eating non-stop on a lazy Sunday morning with his community — Delhi Food Walks, which has over 1,300 members already. He says, “We are a big group now, and every Sunday we conduct various food walks across the city in different groups. We even have special food walks during festivals such as Ramzan, Onam and other food-related occasions. We have covered almost all the famous food streets of the city on foot. Also, we conducted organic food walks where we sampled various sherbets and organic food items. Sometimes we even chip in and go for food festivals happening in various restaurants and eateries.”
Suchita Salwan, a foodie and founder of www.littleblackbookdelhi.com [2], reveals that her love for good food and its local evolution on the streets directed her to popular food walk groups in the city. She says, “I discovered the most delicious chole bhature and lassi in the Kamla Nagar market when I participated in a food walk a few months ago. Apart from the regular groups, there are also small communities of like-minded people, who gather on Sunday mornings for cycling tours and along the route, they stop and savour the street food. For any food lover it’s a great activity to venture out with a group of friends on a holiday and rediscover the food trail in the city.”