Every food festival ends the same way. Weeks of “book now” posts turn into a quiet scramble, and the people who kept meaning to go finally pick a date. For Chandigarh diners, that date is Sunday, 1 November, the final day of Flint’s curated menu for Restaurant Week India.
What the festival is
Restaurant Week India has grown from a three-city pilot into a national event with more than 100 restaurants in its autumn edition, running from 16 October to 1 November 2026. Participating restaurants offer set three-course menus, and the second edition adds dessert pop-ups and limited “One Service Only” experiences. Chandigarh is one of the ten cities taking part.
What Flint is serving
Flint is a contemporary European restaurant in Chandigarh built around live-fire cooking and ingredient-led plates, drawing on Mediterranean and European influences. The grill does the work here. It adds char, smoke and depth to vegetables, seafood and meats, rather than serving as a side feature.
Restaurant Week suits this style of cooking. A set menu works best when a kitchen has a clear point of view, and Flint’s is hard to miss: let good produce speak, and let fire do the rest. For the festival, the restaurant has put together a three-course menu that reflects that approach, showing what live-fire technique can do with carefully prepared ingredients.
That makes the menu a fair introduction to the place. If you haven’t been, it is a good way to find out what a wood-and-flame kitchen does with seasonal produce. If you’re a regular, it is a chance to see how the kitchen condenses its style into three courses.
The setting
The open kitchen and warm, understated interiors create a setting that is polished yet relaxed. For a Sunday, that matters. Plenty of fine-dining rooms feel like an occasion you have to dress up for. A relaxed room with the cooking in plain view suits a long weekend lunch or an unhurried early dinner, and it gives you something to watch between courses.
Why the last day is worth considering
A closing-day booking has some practical appeal.
It’s a Sunday. The final day falls on a weekend, so you don’t need to take time off or rush from work. Lunch and dinner both become realistic options, and the listing shows multiple slots.
You’ve seen what others thought. By the last weekend, other diners will have eaten the menu and shared photos and opinions. If you were waiting for word of mouth, there will be some.
It’s a clean deadline. Once the festival closes, the menu goes with it. There’s no promise it will return in the same form, so this is the last chance to eat it as a curated three-course set.
It’s easy to share. A set menu removes the ordering debate. Everyone at the table gets the same format and the same price, which makes it a good option for a group of friends who can’t agree where to eat.
Pricing and booking
The experience is bookable exclusively on District, with tickets required for all ages, and the listing shows prices from ₹1,888 onwards. The listing also notes that Kotak credit card pre-sale access was running when it was published. Check the live page for current availability and the exact price on your slot, because popular days can fill and the final Sunday is likely to be one of them.
If you’re planning a Sunday visit, book as early as you can and have a fallback slot in mind. Festival listings can change quickly near the end, and some time slots tend to disappear first.
A word on the wider Chandigarh lineup
Flint isn’t the only Chandigarh name in the festival. Ikk Panjab in Sector 26 is also offering a three-course curated menu, built around the food and heritage of undivided Panjab. That means a single trip to the city can cover two very different styles of cooking: contemporary European and live-fire at Flint, and heritage Panjabi at Ikk Panjab. If you can’t get a Flint table on the final day, the festival’s last stretch still offers other options
