Bangalore

The restaurant is located in a large complex (the name eludes me) down the road from Eva Mall. It's a rooftop restaurant and this does wonders for the ambiance. They have indoor and outdoor seating but I strongly recommend the outdoors. The view was pretty, seating comfortable and weather fantastic. The middle of the table has a small depression which is filled with petals and candles. Pwetty!!

Having heard much about the generous portions and wanting to save room for dessert, we skipped starters and went to the main course. They gave us complimentary nachos which were OK but nothing I would recommend ordering. I ordered the Canneloni, Rads ordered the Triple Chicken (or something like that) and Tuhina ordered the Meditteranean Chicken. The Canneloni was awesome. Fairly generous portions and the vegetables were crisp, fresh with a distinctive flavour. It had enough cheese to make me happy but not so much that it killed the dish . I had bites of the other dishes and my gauche vegetarian taste buds preferred Rads's dish. Rads swears that all the chicken dishes here are great.

We were quite full at the end of this and decided to order Oreo Shakes instead of a big dessert. While the Oreo Shake was good, I think the ones at Bocca Grande or Mocha are way better. The Java Lava sounded sinful, but we skipped it in deference to our ever expanding waistlines :(. It cost us around 350-400 per person. The prices are a little steep but its worth it.

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Another Italian restaurant. The city is crowded with lots of them. They are located in the central / swank / upmarket UB City. But like any other restaurant inside the UB city their prices seem to be comparable to others.

They have the usual standard Italian menu that looked vaguely familiar.

What did we order

Drinks
- Belgian beer for me and a mocktail for my wife. This was the first time that my wife did not complain.. otherwise she normally cribs that she gets a sugary concoction

Starters
- Bruschetta : 3 pieces.. with tomato, mushrooms and veggies. The mushroom and the veggie ones very average

Pasta
- Flat pasta with sun dried tomato, olives. Very good and i wished the quantity was more

Pizza
- Rustica : Thin crust wood oven pizza (onion, spinach and olives). Amazing!!! I will leave it at this.

Cribs
- Seating is too close. I could see what the other table is upto.
- Service is a little inefficient. They got the starters without the drinks that came almost 10minutes late and it took them 15mins to give me some ice for my water despite asking repeatedly.

In all it costed us 1500 bucks. Will we go back? Definitely yes to try their other pizzas.

This is a online / telephone take away / home delivery only place. They are based out of Koramangala / HSR Layout / Frazer town and generally deliver across the city.

We decided to order about few days back for Dinner and we live within 5kms of this joint.

What did we order

Starters
Sesame Corn toast (i threw it away) and Vietnamese spring roll

Maincourse
Phad Thai (i make better ones) and some fried noodles (we had to throw away).

Largely the experience was bad because 1) It took them 90minutes to deliver 2) The food was cold and spring roll by then had turned into a soft roll.

In all not a good experience and it costed us 500bucks.

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Dim Sum - Koramangala.

The best momo's in town without a doubt. I have eaten food from this joint over a 100 times as it has been the best chinese I have found in Bangalore.
The pricing is affordable and the quality is uncompromised. There is a small eat in area but it is better to order home and enjoy the food with friends.
The menu compromises of Momo's, their speciality (in pork, chicken and veg, Fried or steamed) served with an awesome sauce which i have not tasted anywhere. Other snacks and starers are followed by
soups, speciality dishes and sizzlers. One of the fewplaces which serves awesome pork in a variety of dishes. Definitely worth shouting about.

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34/3 K.P. Srinivasa Reddy Bld, Near Shiva talkies, 8th Block, Koramangala, Bangalore, 560 095

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Food expenses can range from mega cheap to expensive. I am refering to pure veg south indian stuff.

But Halsur is the mecca for real cheap southie food. Outlets located
along the Old Madras Road are the haven for cheap madrasi veg food. Checkout the roadside shops near the bus stand.. they taste helluva great and are very easy on the pocket.

Filter coffee for INR 5 !! served piping hot over the counter in small steel tumblers.. Forget starbucks.. u cant beat the taste of a hot tumbler of FC !!

Idli-s, Dosa-s, Bhajji-s, Bonda-s.. none of them above INR 20 (USD 0.50)
and the taste is heavenly and they are gentle on your gastric system.

Just tip the staff handling the works inside 2-5 bucks and see the ROYAL treatment meted out to you !!

yum yum yum yum!!!! i dont care if its authentic or not.. but i love it....

i mean i love everything bout it.. from the design to the logo to the interiors to the bamboo ash tray to the bamboo napkin holder to the menu card to the waiter to the black bricky wall to the forks and yes the food is ****************************************** great!!!

been there twice and its just so inviting... i mean you just dont want to leave....

so you enter the place and you spot this very very cute sketch of a Chinese man digging into his bowl...so cute that if he was not a sketch but a real person then he'd be my best friend!! wish i had a camera then.

the interior is awesome.. it has such an earthly feel to it..
bamboos everywhere... and if i were a panda id be eating it..

well ok food.... great food... went for lunch with a friend.. we ordered for some butter garlic noodles, loads of steamed momos, rice, veg balls in hot garlic sauce and some beverages...

hmmm...you know like a good hair day or a good skin day.... this was one good food day!!!

we actually went there to have a talk over lunch... but hey once we started digging into, it was like ... who cares bout the talk i wanna eat!!

very astonishing to see such fast and swift service...youre done wit one dish and your next dish is served immediately... so yeah.. youre just eating nonstop...definitely worth the appreciation...

and even more astonishing was the pricing on the food...the lunch was 250 bucs.. i mean its good news people..!!!

one can smoke.. so thats good.. the ash trays are made outta bamboo... i wish i flicked it... (well its not like am never going back there).

the waiters are smiling, the people are smiling,.. its a happy place. absolutely no complaints.

cheers!!

Been here few times...but for some reason writing the review only now. I went there today and i got a feeling that they are getting jaded. All their items in the menu seems to be a concoction of veggies, olive oil and different types of cheeses. So you need to be careful about what you want if you dont want your food to be killed with overdose of Cheese. By the way they also have some mexican on the menu.

We had a Crostini Platter and Avocado salad for starters. The platter was good and the salad could do with less tomato on it.

Wife decided to skip the main course and i ordered myself a Risotto with some Porcini mushrooms. I asked the steward to customize the dish but without checking with the Chef he said no and started explaining why the dish cannot be cooked like what i wanted. After i insisted he went and checked and the Chef was more than ready to do that.

One thing that i noted is lot of people around us had the look on their face that said "the dish doesnt look like what i had visualized based on what i read". May be the waiters can start becoming knowledgeable about the dishes and explain to the customers. If i want to rank the Italian restaurants in the city.. i would rank it 3rd behind Italia, Fiorano (in the order). But the place is quite popular. They have 3 sections...1) Enclosed non - smoking area 2) Lounge - smoking 3) Al Fresco

Wallet Factor : Approx 800 to 900 bucks per person including drinks for a 3 course meal.

man!! every time i think of this place theres some kinda rush that goes through me....

trust me.. this place is a must go for anybody within or outside the city....

well.. i ve been going to this place like even before dinosaurs existed( for the ones who dint get... well its a joke)... but seriously its the best in the business.

this place is basically a small shady shop... but it has the most brilliant steaming idilis i have ever eaten...

no tables no chairs no nothing... but who cares when food tastes that gooood!!!

the perfect time to go is early morning...ask for idilis, vada and a kuppa filter coffee and its more than heaven...

the best part bout the place is that eating at this place gives a typical Bangalore feel to it... its priceless i tell ya.. and the name is quite funky too..

well on a Sunday morning at veena stores you'll find yourself in the midst this huge crowd eating only idilis and to be a part of that is definitely something..

cheers!!