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NDTV Good Times Food Awards celebrate the best in the food industry

National, December 19, 2011: NDTV Good Times, India's first premium lifestyle channel, hosted the second edition of the NDTV Good Times Food Awards at a high profile event at The Westin, Gurgaon on Saturday evening. The channel honoured top restaurants, restaurateurs and chefs from across the nation in a gala awards ceremeony. The Westin resonated with the presence of celebrated faces, food enthusiasts, restaurant owners, chefs and other noted guests.

Among the many highlights of the event was a Sufi jugalbandi by The Mekaal Hasan Band and Harshdeep Kaur. The Highway on my plate duo, Rocky & Mayur kept the audience in splits with their humour and charm.

Speaking on the occasion, Smeeta Chakrabarti, CEO, NDTV Lifestyle said, "We are extremely delighted with the ovehwelming response to the second edition to our NDTV Good Times Food Awards. We are happy to see not only the industry but also citizens from across the country who voted for their favourite nominees. I would like to congratulate all the winners on behalf of the entire team of NDTV Good Times."

Within a year the NDTV Good Times Food Awards have become the definitive standard to the best in the industry. With an unmatched expert panel that is unbiased and uncompromising when it comes to food, the awards are now the last word in the food and beverage space.

An addition to this year's award categories was the Viewer's Choice Award. This was a single award category where the viewers got an opportunity to decide the Best Foodie City of the country through their votes and Delhi NCR was unanimously selected by the citizens.

Enclosed below is the list of winners:

Best North Indian Restaurant - Karim's Hotel, Old Delhi
Best Coastal Indian Restaurant - Gajalee, Mumbai
Best Regional Restaurant - Ponuswamy, Chennai
Best Asian Restaurant - Bomra's, Goa
Best Dessert & Coffee Menu - L'Opera, New Delhi
Best Bar - The Blue Fog, Mumbai
Best European Restaurant - Indigo, Mumbai
Most Sensational Debut - Smoke House Room, New Delhi
All time favourite Restaurant - Flury's, Kolkata
Best Dhaba - Fadtare Misal Pao, Kolhapur
Best Foodie City - Delhi NCR

The winners were selected by a highly qualified jury comprising of NDTV award winning anchor Vinod Dua, celebrity Chef Ritu Dalmia, Food critic Marut Sikka, popular anchor & Chef Aditya Bal, Restaurateur & Chef Vicky Ratnani and Highway Stars Rocky & Mayur.

The nomination list was developed from a universe of over 1000 restaurants by evaluating various journals/magazines in the public domain. The short listed restaurants were further assessed on the basis of their unique propositions. The parameters on which the restaurants were rated: Food, Service, Ambience and Key specialty of restaurant/bar. The validation process was undertaken by Ernst &Young.

About NDTV Good Times

NDTV Good Times is the flagship channel of NDTV Lifestyle, part of the NDTV Group.

Launched in September 2007, NDTV Good Times quickly became India's top-ranked English-language lifestyle television channel - rapidly drawing in its target audience of socially upbeat, well travelled, cosmopolitan viewers who live in style, adore fashion, are adventurous about food and travel and want more out every moment in life with both back packing and high flying budgets.

NDTV Good Times presents world-class, aspirational lifestyle programming that advocates living large - giving its viewers affirmative mantras for how to enjoy food both Highway and Michelin star, find good health through salsa and yoga, fashion on ramps both Indian and global and how to relish Travel and Luxury from both far and near. The lineup of shows covers every aspect of the lifestyle genre to portray and cater to an increasingly global India.

The programming offers fresh, original content while constantly working with new engaging out of the box formats. The channel's presenters each draw in a loyal fan and viewer base who they can even engage through blogs and social networking.

NDTV Good Times has won several programming awards at the Indian Television Academy Awards, Indian Telly Awards & World Media Festival for key shows & interstitials like Highway On My Plate, No Big Deal and Making of the Kingfisher Calendar. Judged as the 'Best Fashion & Lifestyle Channel' at the ITA (Indian Television Academy) Awards for the last two consecutive years, NDTV Good Times is beamed directly across international markets such as US, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Mauritius and Maldives. Content from NDTV Lifestyle is played not only across several ethnic, third party platforms in Africa, Middle East & Europe but also on the mainline lifestyle channels like The Wedding TV in UK. The Channel is present across all major analogue cable markets & all six DTH platforms in India. It is also available on emerging new media platforms (VOD/IPTV) across the country like Big Flix and My Way.

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