Kerala Kitchen, and the One Absence That Stayed After the opening brunch at Flint last week, Mumbai’s dining circuit moved from one end of the city to Juhu, where serial restauranteur Amit Pal opened Kerala Kitchen. The unveiling lunch doubling up as Naazi Bedi’s birthday lunch, thronged with the Ladies that lunch all dressed and posing for pics! But the cuisine which travelled through Kerala’s culinary memory was the high point. Coconut-rich gravies, curry leaves, pepper, and dishes shaped by centuries of maritime exchange which for me was delightful. I’ve always been partial to costal fare. It was not experimental,...