Bar & Bites: Globally renowned New Delhi restaurant Indian Accent hosts pop-up dinners at Bistro Guillaume

If the aromas wafting out of Bistro Guillaume at Crown Perth are a bit different this weekend, that’s because New Delhi’s Indian Accent has taken over the kitchen.

The landmark restaurant famed for inventive Indian cuisine complemented with global ingredients and techniques opened in New Delhi in 2009 and has since spawned outposts in Mumbai and New York, as well as pop-ups around the globe.

The New Delhi diner was voted the top restaurant in India by Conde Nast Traveller and has been a fixture in Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants list for more than a decade. Indian Accent currently sits at No. 26 for Asia, and 89th in the world.

Now it’s Perth’s turn to experience the pioneering mod-Indian tucker, with head chef Rijul Gulati hosting dinner at Bistro Guillaume on October 27 and 28, from 6.30pm.

Dinner costs $195 per person for eight courses (plus $80 for wine pairings or $140 for premium wines).

Gulati will prepare two menus. There’s a vegetarian feast, including masala-baked beet with peanut butter and khandvi, smoked arbi with red pumpkin salan curry and a papadum, and Indian Accent’s signature kulfi sorbet.

The other menu stars the restaurant’s famous mango pickle pork ribs, tandoori foie gras and blue swimmer crab with malwani pulao among other mouth-watering plates combining Indian flavours and WA ingredients.

To book, visit crownperth.com.au.

BAR LOVE TO LOVE YOU, BABY

On November 13, recently opened inner-city cocktail nook Bar Love hands over its keys to Hidetsugu Ueno, the legendary owner and bartender at Bar High Five in Tokyo.

Ueno-san says “no concept is our concept” at his famed Ginza neighbourhood bar. There’s no menu, instead bartenders politely grill customers on what flavours they like and how they’re feeling before making bespoke cocktails.

High Five began in 2008 and is now regarded as one of the best bars in the world.

There are only 35 spots available for Ueno-san’s takeover at Bar Love, which will see him make drinks alongside Perth rising star Jac Landmark and the Bar Love team.

Before then, Bar Love master mixer Brendan Scott Grey heads east to represent Perth at Chinese booze brand Moutai’s Enter The Dragon cocktail tournament at the Sydney Opera House on October 28.

Grey will battle against nine other top-shelf bartenders from around Australia in a competition requiring participants to create an original cocktail incorporating 30ml of Moutai, a strong colourless Chinese spirit known as baijiu.

Each finalist gets just five minutes to demonstrate their creation in front of a panel of judges. The winner gets the coveted title of Moutai Master and $10,000. The rest bring great shame upon their families.