Fine dining restaurants are a cultural thing in our beautiful city of Bangalore. Almost everyone here living the metro life has a favorite restaurant that they can swear by. A lot of people (mostly families and young professionals in love) also have a favorite fine dining restaurant, thoughtfully curated and selected for those extra special date nights. Sad truth is, at this moment, they're unable to gleam in their inherent elegance and people will have to settle for date nights at their home addresses for a while (at this point, we're too afraid to venture a guess as to what "a while" denotes).

Thing is, there are real people running these restaurants and often times unfortunately, the human element of owning and running a business is overlooked. With The Hard Talk, Receptio wants to tap that element and bring out the thoughts and human sentiments behind these busineses.

Aswati is a name with a long history in Bangalore's hospitality scene and it owns and operates legendary restaurants like Ebony  Restaurant, 13th Floor Bar and Asean On the Edge just to name a few and on Episode 1 of The Hard Talk, Gautham talks to Nakul, the second generation owner of Aswati. We learned a lot and hopefully, you can get some insights into what goes on at the back end of these restaurants and how they're dealing with the pandemic.