What an experience!! And I don’t mean that in a complimentary way. I usually rate a place at the end of my review but I’ll start by saying I’m giving them 1 out of 5. You’ll see why shortly.
After the high ratings here on zomato, my bestie and I decided to lunch here. The place has a calm, cool feel. Comfy chairs. We reached just as it had opened so it wasn’t crowded at all. We were attended to immediately.
Started with the Mango and Papaya Salad and it had grated mango and papaya with peanuts that added a nice crunch to it. The sauce mixed in it was delicious
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Next we had palak patta chaat. This came with an elaborate presentation of fried palak pakodas, pomegranate seeds, mashed and spiced potatoes, sauce and sev and curd. It looked great. The palak pakodas, however ,was not at all fresh. The mashed potatoes seemed like it was just taken out of the fridge. It was cold and hard to bite into. When pointed it out we were told it was fried that morning. We said it takes few minutes fry it fresh and serve for which we got the excuse that it may be too oily etc etc. No offer of replacement with fresh papdi. Nevertheless, we managed to finish it. In fact as we went along, a lot of food seemed like it was in storage for long, long while before serving us.
My friend wanted to go with Rajma Kichadi next which was piping hot with dollops of ghee. This was quite tasty. We were then thinking maybe we should be back just for this.
Ended the lunch with Frozen coffee malai for dessert. It was just a lot of coffee mousse. This was tasty too.
So why the 1 star rating? It is what happened AFTER we stepped out of the restaurant. Within minutes I had to rush home and throw up violently while my friend had the most god awful stomach upsets. Been three days as I’m writing this she still hasn’t recovered. Had we eaten anything anywhere else, had it been just one of us and not both, had it taken some time post lunch, I should have still looked at the alternate causes for food poisoning but nope..we literally had to rush to the loo in minutes of finishing lunch and all what we had eaten had to come out.
The reason I even gave 1 was because I got to actually talk to my friend and catch up without too much noise or disturbances.
Zero for food.
Would I go again? A big fat NO and I can say that in nine languages.
Overall Rating: 1/5
Ratings for reviews:
1 – No! No! No!
2- Just about average.
3 –Good. Can give it a try.
4- Great!!
5 – Yes! Yes! Yes! And I’ll tell all about it.
Details:
Address: Srinivasan Towers, ESI Hospital Road, Indiranagar, Bangalore
Contact: 080 49653364
Timings: 1 pm to 11 pm
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