Food: Flavourful
Packaging: Smart
Cost: Reasonable
Verdict: 2/5

From cooking up large meals that will last a few days, to ordering-in to tackle the ever-piling dishes, food, for many young working professionals in the past seven months, has been a means to an end — sustenance to get by. Although we’re no fans of store-bought dal makhani and prawn curry mixes, we’ve found ourselves reaching out for the packages to juggle work deadlines. So, when we learnt that chef Richard Dias, who ran Bandra Pali Naka’s much-loved Thai Ban, has started his own marinated meats delivery service, we were keen to find out if it could be the WFH time-saver we were looking for.

Chicken vindaloo, chimichurri chicken, tuna fish yakitori, Thai chilli garlic basil pomfret, Cajun spiced prawns, and dill and lemon rubbed snapper — we were happy to note the diversity in Masala Marke’s menu. They deliver in and around Mumbai, and according to their social media page, one only needs to fry, bake or pan-sear the nearly-cooked dishes.