My first visit to Fabelle

July 26, 2016: It is about 3:13 am now. I arrived in Jaipur from Bangalore for few hours in order to witness the Kalam session with Nadira Babbar - the Guest author of Kalam Jaipur. She will then again be the Guest author in Raipur on July 28 for the same event.

On Saturday, in Patna, author Surendra Mohan Pathak was the Guest author for the Patna leg of Kalam. And on Sunday, with him as the Guest author, Kalam started its chapter in Gaya which is the fourth city for this event.

We are planning to initiate Kalam in five other cities of Bihar and also start similar series in Hyderabad and Bangalore. There are requests from Jodhpur, Udaipur, Bhopal and Mumbai as well to start this event.

While in Bangalore for a night, I stayed at the ITC Gardenia and explored the hotel's new venture Fabelle which is a high-end chocolate boutique which the ITC Group plans to expand to seven or eight more of its hotels by the end of this year. Fabelle, no doubt, will compete with the likes of Godiva and Rochelle. I think it is the best Indian chocolates ever produced.

Also, I got to know from my friend, Virendra Razdan, who is also the General Manager at ITC Gardenia, that ITC Sonar in Kolkata had also launched Fabelle two or three days prior to the company's annual general meeting.

Before checking in at the ITC Gardenia I went to dine at the JW Marriot poolside on Sunday evening at the Indian restaurant Spice Terrace. The food and the ambiance, both were good.

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