Where: Koramangala, in the lane opp. HDFC Bank
Price: ~ 200 for two
This is a deviation from all others listed here. This is not one of those Mom-and-Pop serving delicious food. It's modelled around the production-line, same-taste-served-everywhere (at least across the country) idea made popular by such purveyors of high cuisine like Pizza Hut & MacDonald's. Right that's where sarcasm and the similarity ends. While the place is efficient, clean and quick, the taste is quite surprisingly good.
Since the accent is on being quick, the quickest menu items are the Chicken, Veg & Mutton lunches. Ranges from 95 to 125 and comes with one roti (quite big), a biryani, a piece of kabab, raita and two curries. Hence the name I guess. You can order a-la carte as well. The menu has about 15-20 items at the most, veg and non-veg included. The taste like mentioned before is quite good, the kababs and the mutton and chicken pieces are quite tender unlike most such places. Plus you'll love the absence of the bright red/green colouring agents that most places love to use on the kababs. The only issue some might have is that the biryani/lunch combo portions might seem a little on the smaller side - especially if you're one of those whose family/friends/assorted relatives/caterers at weddings expect to take care of all left-overs. In that case off the menu might make more sense. The crew is quite efficient and friendly and the place takes plastic as well. All in all, it's quite the value-for-money deal.
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Mangalore Pearl
Where: Coles Road, Frazer Town, Bangaluru.
Price: ~ 300 for two
Don't worry about the price. Mangalore Pearl will add to your bill because of the amount you'll end up eating. Not necessarily because of the price/plate. Or whatever it is that they call that in the restaurant business.
The décor is your regulation "clean homely" restaurant. The only difference is that this is actually clean. But then that's a given in most restaurants on the Peninsula. Like the name suggests, it serves honest-to-goodness Mangalorean-Konkani food. So straight off the bat, let the veggies beware. The food is delicious, but does not have as much a choice as the carnivores have. Both can start with the sol kadi (buttermilk with cocum, hint of garlic and spices). There are tons of starters. The prawn fry at 90 INR are worth it. Especially considering that they come wrapped in pork. Yumm! Batter fried squid rings is another starter that can ring in the main course nicely (and help pardon this tired joke). All fish come highly recommended, especially the clams and mussels sukha.
While there, for the main course, try the sannas - they're shaped like idlis - but some of the curries like pork baffat go better with neer dosa. These are thin rice dosas. Neer dosas go equally well with the chicken sukha. However, seafood are the better done of all dishes here. There are daily specials which are invariably fishy in nature and typically kaane masala fry, mootley, prawns masala or pomfret fry.
Bread pudding or caramel custard are the more popular deserts, but after such a repast, it is difficult to keep place for trivial stuff like custard.
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Price: ~ 300 for two
Don't worry about the price. Mangalore Pearl will add to your bill because of the amount you'll end up eating. Not necessarily because of the price/plate. Or whatever it is that they call that in the restaurant business.
The décor is your regulation "clean homely" restaurant. The only difference is that this is actually clean. But then that's a given in most restaurants on the Peninsula. Like the name suggests, it serves honest-to-goodness Mangalorean-Konkani food. So straight off the bat, let the veggies beware. The food is delicious, but does not have as much a choice as the carnivores have. Both can start with the sol kadi (buttermilk with cocum, hint of garlic and spices). There are tons of starters. The prawn fry at 90 INR are worth it. Especially considering that they come wrapped in pork. Yumm! Batter fried squid rings is another starter that can ring in the main course nicely (and help pardon this tired joke). All fish come highly recommended, especially the clams and mussels sukha.
While there, for the main course, try the sannas - they're shaped like idlis - but some of the curries like pork baffat go better with neer dosa. These are thin rice dosas. Neer dosas go equally well with the chicken sukha. However, seafood are the better done of all dishes here. There are daily specials which are invariably fishy in nature and typically kaane masala fry, mootley, prawns masala or pomfret fry.
Bread pudding or caramel custard are the more popular deserts, but after such a repast, it is difficult to keep place for trivial stuff like custard.
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