Poshvine provide instant reservations to the choicest restaurants
Urban India’s on the move. And one of the first things the aspirational and the affluent seek after putting down their bags in a new city are the coolest restaurants in town. Poshvine (poshvine.com ), an internet-enabled food-focussed concierge service, attempts to be an answer to their prayers by providing instant reservations to the choicest restaurants (most in the spend category of Rs 700+ per head) and organising culinary experiences (guided food strolls, pop-up restaurants and other singularly local adventures). Currently operational in Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai with a membership base of 30,000 (23,000 of them in Bangalore, where they first set up shop in October 2011), they will soon have a presence in Mumbai and Delhi as well. About 60 percent of their partner-restaurants offer discounts between 20 and 25 percent, the biggest attraction for their members, but their two-a-week experiences, too, are usually sell-outs.
(This story appears in the 28 September, 2012 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)