TRAVEL + LEISURE / JANUARY 2017 29
RESTAURANTEUR>>
CHEF RACHEL GOENKA
OWNER, THE SASSY SPOONRachel learned the culinary arts from
namesake celebrity chef Rachel Allen
at The Ballymaloe Cookery School
and later honed her skills at
Le Cordon Bleu, London. Partnering
with Chef Irfan Pabaney, she launched
The Sassy Spoon, a gourmet eatery
in Mumbai, and her love for desserts
has translated into the patisserie, The
Sassy Teaspoon. A self-confessed
shopaholic, she frequents boutiques
in London and Florence and brings
back one-off pieces.
DOWNTIME IN MUMBAI
The Dome (ihg.com) and Asilo
(stregismumbai.com).
ON MUMBAI’S FOOD SCENE “It’s
rapidly evolving and there’s a shift
from traditional to modern cooking.
Almost every restaurant has
something exciting to offer, so the
bar is set quite high.”
FAVOURITE FOOD DESTINATIONS
Food in Sydney and Melbourne
is delicious and creative. Even a
random hole-in-the-wall serves up
spectacular dishes, she says.
WEIRD EXPERIMENT THAT WAS
SUCCESSFUL Eggnog macarons.
BOOKSHELF Restaurant Babylon
by Imogen Edwards-Jones,
White Slave by Marco Pierre White,
and The Intolerant Indian by
Gautam Adhikari. —A.B.Rachel brings back
local produce from
wherever she’s
travelling. She
recently picked up
13 jars of diff erent
kinds of honey from
Tasmania.COURTESY OF RACHEL GOENKA