The opening of the restaurant Olive on Saturday was a fun-filled lively event. The restaurant has a Mediterranean ambience with white walls and tented outdoor spaces, cool and inviting. The shangria had everyone in good spirits and the host Henry Tham, AD Singh, Anupam Mayekar, Martin da Costa and Sagarika ensured everyone was well taken care of with celebrity guests like Ayesha and Anil Dharker, Sophiya and Julles Fuller, Bachi Karkaria, and Dolly Thakore, Mehr and Arjun Ramphal, Mel D'souza, Suchitra Pillai, Kishen Mulchandani, Rahul Akerkar, Rachel Reuben, Rahul Bose, Neerja Shah and a bevy of other lovelies. We ate and drank soaking in the ambience of a South of eateries and watering holes where the city can show to advantage her people and their graciousness. The Bombay Times party was indeed a treat last Saturday and I marvelled at the concentration of glamour, beauty, talent and wealth assembled there, the fact that a lot of these exclusive people are internationally travelled, lends to a voice crying out for more places to eat and socialise at.
Olive fills that space nicely.