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Swiggy brings back GIRF 2025 – India’s biggest dining festival with 50 per cent off
MUMBAI: Great food tastes even better when it’s half the price! Swiggy is back with the Great Indian Restaurant Festival (GIRF) 2025, promising foodies an unparalleled dining experience across 15,000+ restaurants in 40+ cities from 15 February to 13 April 2025. This year’s edition delivers an irresistible flat 50 per cent discount on dining, with an extra 10 per cent off for HDFC Bank credit card users.
After the massive success of GIRF 2024, where 3.5 lakh diners saved over Rs 100 crore, this year’s festival promises an even bigger feast! Featuring top restaurants like Pizza Express, Punjab Grill, Gola Sizzlers, The Irish House, Poptates, Biergarten, and many more, food lovers can indulge in their favourites without burning a hole in their pockets.
This year, GIRF 2025 is spicing things up with exclusive perks:
. Crazzzy deals of the day – Limited-time offers on top-rated restaurants.
. GIRF-only menus – Special dishes created exclusively for the festival.
. Complimentary cocktails & mocktails – Cheers to free drinks at select restaurants.
. Extended happy hours – More time, more drinks, more fun!
From metro hubs like Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Kolkata, and Chennai to foodie destinations like Goa, Jaipur, Indore, Coimbatore, Ranchi, Udaipur, Chandigarh, Lucknow, Amritsar, Nashik, Pondicherry, Mysore, Vijayawada, and Varanasi, GIRF 2025 ensures that every foodie gets a bite of the action.
Adding a touch of Indian cinema charm, Neena Gupta leads Swiggy Dineout’s all-new marketing campaign, highlighting deals so exciting that ‘Deals aisi chalti, ki sab maare palti!’ The campaign perfectly captures the thrill of unmissable dining offers, ensuring that foodies everywhere flip for these deals.
Swiggy Dineout VP of sales, Swapanil Bajpai shared his excitement, “We are thrilled to bring back the Great Indian Restaurant Festival (GIRF) this year. This event is our way of making dining out affordable, exciting, and accessible to everyone. The overwhelming response from past editions has fueled our passion to make GIRF 2025 even bigger and better. We look forward to great customer participation and countless memorable dining experiences.”
At its core, GIRF 2025 is all about bringing food lovers together, making dining out fun, and ensuring that every meal is a celebration. So, book your tables, grab the biggest discounts, and get ready for India’s ultimate dining festival!
e-commerce
Samsung Galaxy S26 series now available for instant delivery on Instamart
AI powered flagship phones start at Rs 87,999 with launch offers up to Rs 9,000.
MUMBAI: In the age of quick commerce, even flagship smartphones are learning to arrive at your doorstep at lightning speed. Instamart has partnered with Samsung to make the newly launched Galaxy S26 series available for instant purchase on the quick commerce platform, expanding the category beyond groceries and daily essentials into premium consumer electronics.
The Galaxy S26 lineup, which includes the S26 Ultra, S26+ and S26, is now available across several major Indian cities including Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai, Kolkata, Ahmedabad and Pune, among others.
The flagship series introduces several new features, led by what Samsung describes as the world’s first built in Privacy Display on a smartphone, available exclusively on the Galaxy S26 Ultra. The display is designed to enhance privacy while unlocking a new class of screen experiences.
The devices also integrate agentic artificial intelligence designed to quietly manage routine tasks in the background, allowing users to focus on more meaningful interactions with their device.
Positioned as a major step forward in AI powered smartphones, the Galaxy S26 Ultra also introduces enhancements in areas such as nightography photography and Photo Assist tools, aimed at improving low light imaging and AI driven creative editing.
Through the partnership, Instamart is extending its quick commerce proposition to high value electronics, allowing customers to order the Galaxy S26 series and receive it almost instantly once sales go live.
The Galaxy S26 series will be available starting at Rs 87,999. As part of the launch offers on Instamart, customers can avail an instant discount of up to Rs 9,000 using an HDFC Bank credit card. Buyers can also opt for No Cost EMI options for up to 9 months.
The move reflects the growing overlap between quick commerce and consumer electronics, as platforms race to deliver not just groceries but also premium technology products with the same promise of speed and convenience.
