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<strong>Click on the pic to view slideshow</strong> It’s Valentine’s Day, love is in the air and I could sense it as soon as I entered The Office and was welcomed by the young and handsome couple - the erstwhile television actor Arjun Punj in a pink shirt on jeans and his beautiful wife Gurdip Kohli who had teamed a pair of red narrow pants with a black sleeveless top. Now I am sure you are curious at all the discrepancies in that opening sentence.

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Bollywood and Tollywood actor Mukesh Rishi is known for his stimulating performances both in negative and character roles. With a wide repertoire of essaying different characters in Hindi and Telugu films, I felt very little is known about this gun-wielding, anger-spewing actor and by inviting him for dinner I wished to learn more about the man who has earned accolades and co-starred with greats from the south movies like Chiranjeevi, Nagarjuna and Mahesh Babu.

<strong>Click on the pic to view slideshow</strong> Lemon Grass, the oriental restaurant in Malad, has recently introduced Indian dishes, so when the enterprising Directors Deepti and Subhash Menon invited me to taste the new menu set up by celebrity Chef Harpal Singh Sokhi, I just couldn’t resist. And I felt it would make for a more interesting afternoon if I had with me Pariva Pranati, the TV actor who has recently debuted in filmdom with Reema Kagti and Aamir Khan’s <em>Talaash</em>.

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<strong>Click on the pic to view slideshow</strong> Call her a single mother/socialite/columnist/actor or reality TV show participant but my guest for the day, Pooja Bedi is undoubtedly a warm and friendly person to know. I have met and interacted with her on several occasions earlier but in the course of my Eating Out column I got to know much more and believe me, every aspect about the agony aunt is positive and touching.

Dynamic Hitesh Keswani and hospitality professional Dharmesh Karmokar’s latest Pan Asian venture Nom Nom at Juhu-Versova Link road happened to be the chosen venue for my eating out column with the versatile Bollywood and TV actor Anang Desai. While I was waiting for my guest, the amicable staff of the restaurant offered me a virgin mocktail called Leave It To Me – a refreshing blend of ginger, honey, lemon, crushed mint in soda.