25/11/2020
Farewell and thank you!
As regular customers to Dario’s will know, we closed our doors for the last time in March of this year, bowing to prevailing restrictions brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic.
This was not a decision we took lightly – for more than ten years our flagship restaurant in Koregaon Park had been popular with friends from all over India and from all over the world. Whether to have just a quiet cup of proper espresso, an intimate dîner à deux, or Sunday brunch with everyone – whatever the occasion, we strove to provide a place our customers would enjoy coming back to – a combination of Italian cuisine and flair, and the famed Indian hospitality.
We hosted book-launches, art exhibitions, children’s parties, recitals, retirement dinners, cricket-watching evenings, and even one or two proposals of marriage. We celebrated the seasons and colours of India and abroad, decorating for the Ganesh festival, for Diwali, for Holi, Christmas and New Year. Dry days, high days and holidays – we took them all in our stride, and made many new friends along the way.
Then, eight months ago, came the virus. Along with everyone else we were under lockdown; self-isolation, quarantine, and social-distancing became the new norm. India closed its doors to the world and friends were obliged to leave, while others were unable to return to their homes, to their families. Thin times all round. And so it was with heavy hearts that we decided to call it a day.
However, there is a light at the end of the tunnel for Dario’s lovers – we shall soon be opening again at Poona Club for club members and their guests. Dario’s Trattoria, with its lush garden, beautiful verandah, and relaxed, colonial style, is also the ideal place to host a party, and club members or guests of club members may do so by paying club entry charges when signed in by said member. Call 9167797970 for further details.
And who knows, as James Bond would say, “Never say never”– but for the moment we’d like the thank all our customers, our wonderful staff, and everyone who, over the years, helped make Dario’s Dario’s.
And remember: “The family that eats together, stays together.”
