If you are one of those who think that there is a serious lack of really good desserts in Delhi - an opinion we used to share - then we have a delicious good news for you. There is hope for lovers of good desserts, and it's called Foodaholics. 

 With a combination of the best ingredients, (mostly imported, to keep flavours authentic), customised touches, and pure pastry talent, Kishi Arora, the chef and dessert genius behind Foodaholics, makes - can we say it? - the best desserts in Delhi. And arguably some of the best in India. 

A foodie by nature, Kishi has always loved to cook, but she became a pastry chef almost by chance. When she enrolled in the Culinary Institute of America (C.I.A. to its friends), New York, she wanted to join the main curriculum, but she realised her future job description as a restaurant chef would have contemplated cooking a lot of meat and fish. For a vegetarian, that didn't seem like such an enjoyable careers, so she switched to the baking and pastry course instead. 

It was love. Kishi says that what she likes most about baking is that while cooking is a matter of taste, baking is a technique, and there is a specific process to it. Watching her at work, it's easy to see something almost scientific in her approach. Every quantity is exact, every taste is perfectly balanced, and for every recipe there is a special selection of ingredients. White chocolate from France, salt with lime aroma from Japan: Kishi's kitchen is a collection of heavenly flavours and delicious discoveries. 

All is perfect, and the only thing left to improvisation is the final, pretty decor. Balancing culinary science and creativity, Kishi even managed to be selected as one of India's TED fellows. A bite of any of her creations, and it's evident why: there is art, and not a small amount of genius, in those heavenly creations. 

Kishi opened Foodaholics in Delhi three years ago, after working as a pastry chef at the Four Seasons hotels of San Diego and Singapore for five years. The beginning wasn't easy: dealing with Indian weather conditions, with the the fact that not all ingredients were available and getting clients used to the "international" taste of her pastry was hard work. Not only, but being used to big hotel kitchens, sizing down to a home business was indeed challenging.

But past the initial stage, Foodaholics was a success. Kishi never stops experimenting and creating new desserts and cakes according to the clients' taste or to the seasonal ingredients, which makes her menu practically infinite. For the moment, she keeps working from home and delivering her delightful creations, but she has plans to build a much bigger kitchen very soon. 

Even on the busiest days (and some days got as busy as 700 desserts!), Kishi personally works on all the desserts, to make sure the result is perfect. Her efforts seem to be appreciated, judging by Foodaholics' over 3000 fans on Facebook!

And her fame goes beyond Delhi, as we discover when she casually tells us the most incredible stories of people being mad about her cakes. For instance, she periodically sends cakes to an affectionate client from Ludhiana via the ticket master of the Shatabdi Express. And she has a client in Goa who pays for her cakes plus a return flight from Delhi for her delivery boy just to satisfy his Foodaholics cravings. 

Kishi even has an army story to share. Once, the captain of a squadron posted on the Siachen glacier was so impressed with Kishi's delights that decided to order hundreds of Foodaholics' desserts as a surprise for his troop. The way he got them all the way to the border? Wrapped in orange, white and green paper, just like the Indian flag, packed into a crate, and - why not! - loaded onto a chopper. The troop was ecstatic, and Kishi still keeps the "thank you" letters she received from the front.

So, do you need to read more? We think not. If you are in Delhi, your Foodaholics' dessert is a just phone call away. Get ready for ecstasy.