Purani Dilli. The words evoke a vivid imagery of smoke and sabzi, daal and gosht, and a man in a pristine white kurta donning a prayer cap on his head poking into what will become pillow-y khamiri rotis inside a blackened tandoor.

The flavours that you discover inside the capital's winding streets that are turgid with the redolence of khara masala, remain embedded in your memory in the same way that history prevails in every nook and corner of the city. And so, when life presents a chance to revisit Delhi's zaika, we waste no time in setting out to Tamak, an inconspicuous restaurant in Santacruz West that we last visited in August, 2018.