Malad

Description:

The New & Hip venture of the one at Irla, also has a couple of banquet halls & hotel.

Well spaced out tables, similar menu, lots of parking outside (one of the reasons of giving irla a miss)constantly improving service & willingness to help you with off the menu trials.

The vegetarian edges out the non vegetarian by a wee bit; probably because of some new dishes, whereas the non veg does not seem different.

Afternoons are quiet & evenings till 9 are ok before it starts getting crowded.

Description:

Pop Tate's is an American style restaurant in R-Mall. They serves Pizzas, Pastas, some mexican food, burgers, cocktails, beer. All in all a nice place with a lot of choice. The place is surprisingly big despite appearances. They have about 20 tables, slightly close together, but no matter. The place is apt for a bite or drink before the multiplex movie or in between shopping.

The starters and pastas are really good. The pasta is slightly too soft and not crunchy enough, but their sauces and gravies make up. Maybe not gourmet stuff, but value for money - large portion of a good non-veg pasta and garlic bread for 125/-. Cocktails are good. Indicative price is 110 for a Long Island Ice Tea. There is decent college classics or new pop like music blaring away and 3 TVs play music or sports. The ventilation is slightly non-smoker repelling. The service is decent. There is a large yuppie college going crowd in gangs sipping away draught beer which, incidentally, is flat and sad to be avoided even if it is given to you for free.

Description: Yep, the same Ruby Tuesday. I can't really confirm, but the outlet here—at InOrbit mall—is probably the first one to open in India (and surely the first in Mumbai). Two of us (my brother and I) went there after watching a movie in the mall. The ambience is decent—they could do with some tinted glass, though: it's kinda irritating to be able to see the mall from inside. The lighting is just perfect. The interiors are good—very artificial, but good. They've got skate boards, old photographs, jerseys, etc. put up so randomly that it's perfect. I mean it's not like Peco's, or Toto's. But good still. There's a separate (kinda) section for smokers. I wouldn't go here just to have a few drinks. The food is really good. Cocktails are good too. (Didn't have any this time; the last time a bunch of us were here, we had only cocktails.) The place is kinda expensive, though. Our bill came to 1082 bucks—two bottles of Kingfisher, a Long Island Iced Tea, chicken wings (really good), and a chocolate short cake. A pitcher costs 350 bucks—same as Geoffrey's. By the way, they have some membership thing where you pay 3500 bucks anually—you get a 20% discount every time you go alone, a 50% discount when you're with a guest; that percentage progressively decreases as the number of guests increase. Oh, and when you sign up, you get a bottle of house wine, and a few vouchers worth a few five hundred bucks. Ruby Tuesday will be opening an outlet in Bangalore some time in October.