Every month we lift a handful of ideas from the Canvas to the Showcase. When one becomes real, a gold ribbon tells you what happened next.
A diner pulls a card, writes an idea, scans it in. Everyone can vote.
Each month the curators lift a handful here. A gold ribbon tracks what happened next.
Some ideas ship — in our kitchens, on our walls, in the hills.
In September the Canvas went quiet because the ideas moved to the table. Mira — our thinking partner — sat down with guests at Xin Coonoor, HSR and Koramangala, and twenty conversations later the first Spark Cards are on their way here. The next ideas you see in this Showcase were born out loud.
The sky is a room we forgot we could visit. Turn the lamps down once a month and everyone remembers.
On the wall at Xin Coonoor. Star Sundays — lights down after the last seating — are the house version of this. The town-wide night is a conversation for the next Xin Table.
The tin should smell like her hands, not the factory's. Name the picker, sign the label, date the frost.
On the wall at Xin Coonoor. Our Nilgiri teas already come from estates you can see from the window — next is a picker's name on every pot. We're asking the estates.
The hills should not carry what the hills did not grow. A refill sanctuary at every entry, no plastic past the gate.
On the wall at Xin Coonoor. Water refills are free at every Xin table in the hills — the checkpost version is the one we're taking to the next Nilgiris Xin Table.
Paint the ten hottest bus-stop roofs white this summer and publish the before/after temperatures.
On the wall at Xin HSR. Step one is a temperature map: bring us a reading from your bus stop this summer and we'll plot it on the wall before anyone lifts a paintbrush.
One within-100-km dish on every menu, marked with a little map dot — let diners taste the distance.
On the wall at Xin Koramangala. The kitchen is mapping which bowls already qualify — the map dot lands on the menu the day we can prove every kilometre.
Every child plants and names one tree in their first school year — the school keeps its grove’s register for a century.
On the wall at Xin HSR since July. Next: one HSR school to plant the first grove with — if you run one, tell your server and we'll host the first planting at a Xin Table.
One rupee on every hotel bill into a warm-room fund, printed as a line item so every guest is part of it.
Now being scoped with two Ooty churches.
A rail tiffin at every stop: one dish, one memory, one elder to tell it.
Piloting at Coonoor station this season.
Every vote on the Canvas is a nudge towards this page. Back an idea you'd like to see become real — or pull a card and write your own.