Culinary venture for Malhotras.

THE Malhotra Group is boxing clever with the launch of a new culinary venture.

One of the group's leisure venues, Osbornes Bar and Kitchen in Jesmond, has joined forces with food emporium Ninety Nine, at Grey Street, to open Ninety Nine@ Osbornes, within the Osborne Road bar.

The menu not only features dishes inspired by cuisine from countries as far afield as Japan and Lebanon, but will also introduce customers to the concept of box meals - dishes served in a box, which unfolds to form a plate.

Osbornes recently unveiled its new outdoor Sheesha Garden, where customers can smoke traditional, Middle Eastern hookah pipes. Now people extend the experience with authentic Moroccan dishes from the menu of Sheesha finger food delicacies.