Seafood menu of Arthur's Theme restaurant in Koregaon Park (lane no. 6) was good.The tiny restaurant, serving continental cuisine, is homely and clean. The waiters were warm & very well mannered. The house bread basket was not bad but it could use some more attention. The next time I visit, I plan to try their famous duck item on the menu. There is also a cafe bistro that I loved, located inside Hyatt Regency 5-star in Viman Nagar. Its a neat, comfortable & affordable restaurant with breakout outdoor seating for Friday dates; perfect for lazy afternoons where one can chat for hours. Burger King fast food in Camp in E-street, off M.G.Road, is totally a college-style hangout place that serves humongously stuffed burgers (sausage, mixed, steak and salami). It has extremely slow service. Unfortunately, it doesn't serve beef patty burgers anymore due to local politics. Ironically, they nolonger play those good old songs anymore. p.s Dorabjee & Sons restaurant was good value for money
My first sushi restaurant. I would have chosen Teriyaki / kakatori chicken but since I saw this restaurant menu had sushi, I had to try it.
Californian inside-out Roll or Maki made out of sweet crab meat, fresh avocado slices, crunchy cucumber rolled & rice (japanese-american cuisine) first invented by master Japanese chef Trevor Corson or by Tokyo Kaikan chef Ichiro Mashita in the 1960s. The wasabi-coloured 'tobiko' (salmon egg), was deliciously salty, popping and crunchy. I can't remember if it had any cream cheese in it. It had that explosive crab meat, however, I don't think there was any prawn meat in it. ChilliesSmokedNasi and Mee Canteen (South-East Asian) This place has been in my list for a long time now but the horrible traffic (less than 30 sec green light and over 3 minutes red light!) to the place had dissuaded me. It too far to walk from my house and too near to ride to. I am not a fan of sweet Malaysian & Singaporean flavours when it comes to non-veg dishes but the food here was fresh which I appreciate. Hence, I was not too fond of the char-grilled chicken satay with sweet-peanut sauce but the chicken dim-sum with cherry & chilli sauce, were delicious. The thing I soon realized was that the absence of beer was a bumber. The lychee & lime spritzer was a great substitute. The place is fresh, chic & cozy and the waiters were friendly. I feel South East Asian cuisine generally do well with all-in-one broths and terribly when it comes to desserts. Nasi and Mee is Malaysian for "Rice" & "Noodle dish". I wasn't too hungry so didn't get to try my favorite South East Asian dish: Nasi Goreng. Al-amara, Egyptian, is a tiny restaurant, its cheap, clean, super-fast and popular- the best Arabic fast food in town for this price. It may not be very nutritious but its very tasty. Try the chicken-cheese keema roll and "falafel spl" that has french fries, mayonnaise, chickpea, brinjal/eggplant, sesame paste sauce (hummus, tahini: lemon, garlic, olive oil etc), salads with lettuce etc all rolled in a flat pita bread Best in India? Possibly. Lebanese fast-food restaurant, Al Bake (India & Saudi Arabia)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rPP9shrsic "In Year 2000, Mirza Ziauddin Beg gave Delhites a new taste which they might not have experienced ever before by setting up a small takeaway with the name Al-Bake at community centre in New Friends Colony which went on to be known as Shawarma Centre now a days by the young delhites." Its a tiny, dim-lit place but located in a premium space. The chef was previously working for the famous "Tuscano" Italian restaurant and has now joined here. The waiters were courteous and totally professionals. I couldn't understand one thing in the menu, so I just I stuck to my favourite Italian orders. I personally feel the dessert list was sidelined in the menu.
This is perfect restaurant for the time. Its Italian enough and the menu list is limited, however, also targeted. A good place for people who want to get easily introduced to good Italian cuisine. To sum it up, the restaurant is like its complementary DIY entrée. The place is not the best, or for that matter, even expensive but it introduces us to something fresh and engaging. At some point, I felt that I maybe was heading for disappointment but then the complimentary hot bread rolls were being served with herbed butter, were so soft. I reached into the basket and as I nibbled, I keep thinking, this place is not bad, not bad at all. First, the things that were in common. They are both medium expensive restaurants that serve tandoori cuisine. Tandoori restaurants market to the puritans, who love the opulence of exotic Mughal style; whereas barbecue nation (BQ) is a modern contemporary-styled North-Indian BBQ. Here, the tandoori item was a let-down. Frankly, I have had better and richer Mughlai food which you can easily get in North India. I heard that the "dal makhani" is milder and tasty, but I only like yellow lentil, so I didn't have the chance to taste it. I think, this is a place for rich white people or NRIs who have not travelled to North India and want to try the food here. I think even the staff knows that and behaves accordingly. For this price that we pay, I expect the food to be more memorable. Maybe it is one of those places, that used to be good. On the other hand, I found BQ to be better; and I wasn't even interested to try their main course. BQ is an all-you-can-eat buffet, and the highlight of their food is their bbq starters. Nobody in their right mind goes there for the main course. Another thing I liked was that the staff were very courteous and attentive. I loved the pomegranate and passion fruit mocktail. Both places are known for their "sheek kebabs", however, since I do not eat sheep meat, so it's something I can't talk about. Anyways, I am such a slow eater, so it's always a dash to finish my food, before it gets cold, sitting in these AC restaurants. There is this thing about Korean food, I absolutely love and dislike different items. I go to a Korean restaurant for their salty bulgogi (korean style grilled on a BBQ or a stove-top griddle) pork and the assorted accompaniments, which includes the Sticky / glutinous Rice. I absolutely am in love with their gim-bap (gim: seaweed leaves) and I think it's better than Japanese sushi any day. I tend to stay away from their egg and beef preparation. Their half raw preparations (I stress that I would like it totally cooked or well done) and Korean meat spices don't sit well with our general way, I guess. These restaurants are not the right place to have momos. The Indian-Chinese-Nepali momo fusion food is something which Korean speciality restaurants cannot do justice to. So I have been there a couple of times but have eaten there only a few times. If you are there at a reasonable time, then you get to eat. You get a sense that you are having a relaxed and personal interaction with their staff. The price is slightly steep, even for a speciality restaurant, however, the quantity is also always more for a single person unless he wants to over eat. Korean restaurants have this fascinating weird thing in their space, be it posters of their teen pop culture which are plenty of dolled up teens with a serious hangover of 70s rock, or they have these little porcelain figurines (that freak me out a bit) that all stare over and around you while you eat. |
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