Pune on my plate: A favourite eatery that die-hard fans brought back to life

“We cognize of radical who connected their mode backmost to Mumbai from Mahabaleshwar would marque a deliberate detour to Pune conscionable to person luncheon astatine Dario’s. So erstwhile Dario’s unopen down, it was astir the extremity of an era,” they said. Further on, Covid resulted successful Dario’s closing down each its outlets successful the country, and the cook himself decided to migrate to the UK.

The communicative of Dario’s re-emergence began aft 2023 — by past the Singhs had moved to Pune from Mumbai, and Dario excessively was successful Pune for a visit. “Over galore cups of coffee, Dario talked astir however radical reached retired to him to restart the associated — but helium was not ready. Almost similar a joke, helium asked america if we wanted to relaunch Dario’s successful Pune. At archetypal it was a joke, but soon it became an thought and took its ain life. And towards the opening of this twelvemonth it began to concretise,” they said.

After overmuch thrashing astir of ideas during some carnal and virtual meetings, aboriginal successful September 2024, Dario’s made its re-emergence successful Pune connected Lane 5 of Koregaon Park. While the marque Dario’s is present officially with the Singhs, Dario the antheral is inactive the bosom and psyche of the operations. “The caput cook is the aforesaid idiosyncratic who worked with Dario, and aft closure had refused to enactment elsewhere. The paper remains the same. In information a batch of the backward links are besides the same,” helium said.

Fully conscious of a changed Pune, the Singhs judge their main purpose is to bring backmost the archetypal Dario’s which radical wanted and missed. “Infact, we had this speech with Dario himself—he remains afloat progressive successful moving the restaurant. He said if we could scope retired to those who knew what Dario’s was, it would springiness america capable momentum to support up the archetypal fewer months,” helium said.

The caller Dario’s frankincense has Bheema, the aged usher who is known to galore of the aged timers. The paper arsenic the Singhs said remains the aforesaid – successful information deciding connected the mushroom indispensable for the signature Fungi-a Dario (a starter) had them going backmost and distant with the supplier arsenic Dario insisted connected having the aforesaid size of fastener mushrooms. What has changed is the interior, which is cosier, and the euphony which is besides different. “Our purpose is elemental — re-introduce Dario to Pune, but successful a caller spot which volition archer its ain story,” they said.