What Is Bhavani's Kitchen?

Bhavani's Kitchen (bhavaniskitchen.com) is a personal food blog that combines recipes with restaurant reviews, organized under the tagline "The World Is My Kitchen." It suits home cooks looking for Indian-leaning and international dishes, and readers who want short, first-person write-ups of restaurants rather than formal criticism. The site's content is dated, with most posts clustered between 2012 and 2017, so treat it as an archive rather than an actively updated publication.

What the site covers

The blog splits into a few recurring categories, visible in its navigation and post history:

• Recipes, divided into Veg Recipes, Veg Snacks, Side Dishes, Desserts, Rice Recipes, Non-Veg Recipes, Egg Recipes, Chicken Recipes, Lamb Recipes, Seafood Recipes, and Non-Veg Snacks.
• Restaurant Reviews, covering a mix of London-area and international spots.
• Lifestyle and Travel sections.
• About, Blog, and Contact pages.

Posts are attributed to an author named Bhavani and carry comment counts, indicating reader interaction at the time of publishing.

Recipe style and examples

Recipes follow a two-part structure: a Preparation section for chopping, mixing, and marinating, then a Cooking Process section for the actual cooking. Instructions are written as numbered steps with approximate quantities rather than strict measurements.

Two examples from the site show the range:

Spicy Vegetable Manchurian (posted September 20, 2012) — an Indo-Chinese dish. Preparation involves washing and drying carrots, cabbage, and cauliflower, grating them finely with spring onion bulbs, then binding with plain flour, cornflour, ginger/garlic paste, and pepper before shaping into balls. The cooking process fries the balls in batches, sautés aromatics, builds a gravy from flour slurry, soy sauces, chilli, tomato ketchup, optional vegetable stock, salt, and pepper, then simmers the fried balls in it for 3–4 minutes and garnishes with spring onion and coriander.

Epic Lamb Chops of Epicene (posted August 1, 2017) — a non-veg dish. The visible preparation note advises piercing the chops with a sharp knife so the marinade covers the lamb evenly, starting the marinade with a tablespoon of olive oil.

Other listed recipes include Kadai Chicken, Shrimp Omelette, Prawn Won Tons, Aubergine/Brinjal with Potatoes, Baby Aubergine/Brinjal Korma, and Crispy Masala Vada.

Restaurant reviews

The review section includes posts such as Plateau French Restaurant (June 9, 2012), Wahaca Mexican Restaurant (May 23, 2012), Boisdale Canary Wharf (May 17, 2012), Amerigo Vespucci Italian Restaurant (May 15, 2012), and Jewel Piccadilly, described as a "Celebrity Hotspot" (May 10, 2012). The London-heavy selection suggests the author was reviewing places they visited rather than covering a fixed geographic beat.

Who it's useful for

Practical notes before you use it

Because the site has no visible pricing signals or login requirements in the available material, there's nothing indicating paid access or membership — but that also means no stated terms for reuse of the recipes. If you're adapting a recipe, expect to adjust seasoning and liquid amounts yourself, since the instructions rely on phrases like "add more corn flour" if the mixture is moist rather than giving exact ratios. For the restaurant reviews, check whether the venue still operates before acting on them, given how old the posts are.