For Me, Food Comes on Top in Rating a Restaurant - Karan Singhal


When I was on 22K followers, my account got hacked. I did not lose hope and created a new one.

1. Tell us about your background and journey

I work as a Creative Head in an Event Management company in Gurgaon. I started this food blogging journey in March 2017. when I started I never had an idea that I will be standing at this point where I am currently. I love food and this passion of mine drove me to come into this field with zero knowledge. I started clicking pictures of food items and started posting about it on my Instagram Handle. Gradually people started liking my content. 

When I was on 22K followers, my account got hacked. I did not lose hope and created a new one ( m glad I did that ). The hacker contacted me on the new page and after many arguments, he gave back my original account ( obviously not for free ) and since then the journey has been great. Many hurdles came by but it could not hamper my passion and love for food 


2. Which is your favourite cuisine and dish? 

My favourite cuisine has to be North Indian and the favourite dish on any given day has to be a well-cooked Dal Makhni.


3. Should food blogging be just a passion or can it become a regular career?

Well tbh, when I started I never even thot to make it a career, but yes you can make a career out of it if you have something unique to showcase to the audience. If you love food and if you have a passion to do whatever it takes to get that right-click or to write that blog.


4. Which restaurant/food joints would you recommend to food lovers? 

The restaurants that I personally like are not well known. For butter chicken, I prefer eating from a Takeaway shop namely Waterfront Grill in Geeta Colony, East Delhi. For Dal Makhni I would recommend Indus Flavour ( North Delhi ) or Rajshree ( lal quarter, east Delhi ). 

So I would say every place has its own charm as far as food is concerned, it is very difficult to say that this restaurant is best..but yes you can say that this dish is best of XYZ restaurant.


5. What makes you appreciate a particular dish or a restaurant and talk about it on your blog?

For me, food comes on top in rating a restaurant. As it can cover all the flaws of a restaurant. I would love to go again n again to the same restaurant that has slow service but serves amazing food.


6. Is there a dish you particularly associate yourself with?

Well, there is nothing to associate me to.. but yes my homemade aloo gobhi is one dish that I can smell the fragrance from a kilometre easily ( a fan of aloo gobhi).


7. Which is your favourite book?

I love reading Crime Thrillers and Fiction and my favourite authors are James Patterson and Amish Tripathi. I loved reading Shiva Trilogy and Ram Chandra series..it just mesmerises me to see how the author has portrayed the mythological character and mixed it with a classy modern touch.


Karan Singhal - Food Blogger


Interview by - Soumya Jain