The Living Table — The Inaugural Edition

Where stories find their way onto the plate

The Experience

About The Living Table

An intimate dining experience of food, stories and cultural memory that unfolded in the heart of Old Delhi, hosted within the restored haveli Kathika Cultural Centre.

We were joined by the Gujral family credited with inventing butter chicken, tracing its journey from Peshawar to Delhi through the lens of Partition, memory, migration, and food, exploring how one dish came to carry histories far beyond the table.

Speakers

Monish Gujral— Author, Chef & Entrepreneur, Chairman of Moti Mahal, and the family behind the invention of Butter Chicken.

Sadaf Husain — An author, chef and food writer, who was among the top 8 on MasterChef India in 2016.

Salma Husain — Food Historian and Author, whose knowledge of Persian allows her remarkable access to the history of food from the Mughal era.

Reserve Your Seats

Join us at the table.

Number of Seats

Meal Preference

1 seat × ₹6,500

₹6,500

Secure payment via Razorpay · UPI · Cards · Net Banking

Things to Know

Duration 3 Hours

Minimum Age 18+

Sit Down Dinner

Layout Indoor

Seating Arrangement Seated & Standing

Kids not allowed

Pets not allowed

Liquor included — 2 drinks per person

The Menu

See what's on the table

Food remembers
what cities forget.

Old Delhi has always known how to feed a city. Its narrow lanes hold centuries of recipes — each one carrying the memory of the hands that made it, the occasions it marked, the families it gathered.

The Living Table was an attempt to bring those memories back. Not just as food, but as conversation. An evening that asked: what does a city taste like when it remembers itself?

Venue

Kathika Cultural Centre

Gali Khatikan, Kucha Pati Ram, Sitaram Bazar, Delhi

The Programme

6:30 PMArrival & Welcome

7:00 PMConversations on Food & Memory

8:00 PMDining, Stories & Music

10:00 PMThe Evening Concludes

The Living Table

28 June 2026

Sunday

6:30 PM Onwards

Kathika Cultural Centre

Gali Khatikan, Kucha Pati Ram

Sitaram Bazar, Delhi

Liquor Included

2 drinks per person

Dinner Included

Inkpot India

The next table is being set.

The inaugural edition has passed into memory. A new evening — new stories, new hands, a new table — is already taking shape. Be the first to know when it opens.