The Qatar Today Restaurant Awards were first launched in 2004 by Qatar Today, the country's first News & Business monthly. This unique promotion invited readers and food aficionados to vote for their favorite restaurant. The voting forms were carried within the magazine and made available at the participating restaurants, shopping malls, other popular joints and is also available online.
Starting with 90 restaurants nominating themselves under 12 categories and polling over 50,000 votes the first year, the Awards has seen immense growth. The last edition had 170 restaurants nominating themselves, and over 125,000 votes were polled.
The Qatar Today Restaurant Awards recognises the best and most popular eateries in town with readers invited to vote for their favorite restaurant under twelve different categories. After five months of voting process, the awards were announced in October 2009. This six-month program was culminates with the final counting of votes in June and restaurants securing the maximum votes were awarded the 'Best of category' award.
The very name of the award-winning Indian restaurant Taj Rasoi conjures up images of maharajas who knew the secrets of magnificent dining.
The menu offers aromatic and tantalizing specialties from various regions of India. Speciality Chef Marsel John D'Cruze from Calcutta, India reverts back to 22 years of hospitality experience which he earned after he taught himself how to cook in the gentle age of 14 years.
Adjacent to the hotel, the exclusive Pearl Lounge Club features a dining area with sushi and a mezzanine level for VIP members only. The state of the art sound system brings in the latest trends in music. Pearl Lounge DJ Lilo has a huge repertoire covering all genres of music.
"After receiving the Qatar Today Restaurant Awards for our Far Eastern Restaurant Asia Live! the last two years, it is now a great pleasure that our Indian Restaurant Taj Rasoi was chosen by Doha's food lovers for being the best Indian Restaurant", John S. Louie, Dir. of Operations of the Doha Marriott Hotel states, "For Pearl Lounge Club it is the 3rd time to win this award and we are really proud, being still number one for Doha's Party Crowd", he continues.
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Marriott International operates and franchises hotels under the Marriott, JW Marriott, Renaissance, Bulgari, The Ritz-Carlton, Courtyard, Residence Inn, SpringHill Suites, TownePlace Suites, and Fairfield Inn brand names; develops and operates vacation ownership resorts under the Marriott Vacation Club International, The Ritz-Carlton Club, Grand Residences by Marriott, and Horizons brands; operates Marriott Executive Apartments; provides furnished corporate housing through its Marriott ExecuStay It is ranked as the lodging industry's most admired company and one of the best places to work for by FortuneŽ magazine.
In fiscal year 2004, Marriott International reported sales from continuing operations of $10 billion, and the company had approximately 133,000 employees at year-end 2004.
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