Raasta premium lifestyle cafe

            Raasta is cafe on the highway to Mysore before Channapatna. This cafe was accidently discovered by us on our way back to Bangalore from Mysore. The cafe is colorfully lit along the roadside from 100 metres. The place is very lush green , well maintained and youthful. This place has events like Karaoke arranged on Saturdays. This cafe is 24/7 open. Any surprise birthday plans to friends at 12'o clock, this is definitely the place.
This serene place is beautifully decorated with the innovative, colorful graffitis. Raasta has a boutique too for femme party wear.

We had ordered for potato wedges, Cafe lattes, Capuchino and Onion rings. The quantity is too much. The order was returned is a very short time. The price is very much the same as Barista.
Have a look!

 

Umerkot restaurant review

Been to this place a couple of times. They provide Buffet only for lunch. The ambience is good, has some good ancient wall paintings. It can occupy not more than 40 approximately. The presentation of starters and other items although applauded, the variety is very less compared to other buffet providers in the area. It is just a deviation from Sony circle.
Umerkot is apparantly Akbar's birthplace, needless to say, they claim their serving and cuisine, the mughul style.

No.30, 80ft Main Road, 4th Block Koramangala, Bangalore- 560 034, Karnataka, India.
 Book your appointment here- 080-600-00-600

Per person - 350+tax

The seating area is good. The taste of food is indeed good but nothing to woof about. Very limited parking space inside. Both times, I have been here, I have parked my car roadside. If you go by those words, be ready to take owness of the risks. Check the parking date boards, else be ready to do some under the table from your car window ;)

Silver Metro restaurant review

Location - Madivala, Bangalore

Silver metro is my most frequented restaurant. It is located on the 4th floor of Total Mall, Madivala market. The concept of the restaurant is the feel of having variety of cuisines sitting inside a railway station, train. No! the train doesn't move or vibrate. It is just the ambience.

What I love the most about this place is the variety, plethora of dishes, both for veg and non-veg. You name it, you can find it there! But if you are prawns lover like me, that is the only dearth you'll find here! This is one place where even vegetarians would find same number of dishes as non-vegetarians.

Chapathis and chats are prepared on runtime right in front of you!

There are times when the cuisine is conceptualised too. Once all the dishes were Gujrathi - rare desserts like daal baati churma, some halwa and I don't remember the rest.

Apart from the long list of buffet opportunities, other mocktails are available too. There is bar too, you can't expect a review for the same from me as I have always been there during office times.

Taking an appointment is prime. Else you'll have to wait there amidst huge crowds like you stand in Majestic bustands.

Coffee drop, Bangalore

We had this habit of going away for long drives, on Friday nights post dinner. Few of you may be surprised reading this. Don't be! Majority of IT crowd stays nocturnal on Friday night. That is a well accepted tradition.
But there is hardly any place inside Bangalore that is open 24/7. However there are a few around the outskirts-

CCD in Maddur, on mysore road - 65kms approx

CCD in Tumkur road - 45 kms approx
Coffee drop in hosur road near attibele - 40kms approx
many more

The above places are the common ones most of you would already know. 3 months ago, I too thought it was limited to these CCD chains, when my friend introduced us to this new place, 'Coffee world'.

Coffee world is a very cozy and posh place that you would visit not when hungry, but when you are sleepless and would want to drive down nocturnal.

It was around 12.a.m when we landed there and the best part was there was no crowd. We spent a comfortable 90 minutes there. We four people ordered dishes out of the very limited menu list we were given. Sandwich, 2 French fries, 2 coffees and 1 papaya juice. Wanna know our bill? Read on....

The fries were very thick unlike the usual ones. Sandwich wa spiceless with just the regular tomatoes and onions placed inside. What else can we expect from a cook , who might have been woken awake from his deep slumber to prepare sandwiches for us. I understand, but that was not what we paid for!

The interiors of the place is very well planned and tastefully decorated with antique show pieces.

The restaurant is a very big one with a pool inside. The lawns are very well maintained too.

The place gets listed on the expensive side which you mostly pay for the ambience and silence. Thats it! Yes that time of night would anyways, anywhere be silent.

And yes!, I have nor forgotten, the bill was 2300 INR. That would have included our diesel charges too, if we had opted to go to any normal CCD in the outskirts. 

Marrybrown, Koramangala review

Marrybrown's one of the pilot version of their brand was put up initially here in Koramangala. Everyday riding back home, if the signal was on red, I used to while time staring at the poster of MArrybrown's chicken which looked like spoofed pictures of KFC chicken, then I realised they are indeed different. In what way? Patience.... Read ahead..!

Unlike KFC, the place was really cosy and nicely done. A play area or stress-busting zone I can say! Wondering?

 (I loved to give a gap here to trigger more suspense, then I realised I was writing!).

I was speaking about the basketball net that was hung on the wall at a lower height, but I saw mostly adults springing the balls into the net. The chairs are more comfy and look better than those of KFC. The entire ambience looks very colorful and inviting!

The chicken, the recipe and combo offers look similar to that of KFC! The chicken is not although as juicy as that of KFC's. Very true, those guys don't share their recipe anywhere as they claim. Secret herbs truly!

Back to Marrybrown, the rice recipe here did not taste as good as it should.

Although not very creative, they have replaced the bells in Pizza corners to rubber honks!

Barcode review

Location - Bangalore, Koramangala

       It was a gloomy day. A noon lunch was planned here as it was near. My expectation was set high the time I heard the name of the restaurant. Read ahead to know what happened next ;) !

       Barcode has buffet, famous for non-vegetarian mostly. It is a dimly lit place with limited varieties. There is no much ventilation. I was feeling like I was having my lunch inside a mole's burrow. The mocktail , I ordered was Fruit punch which was presented with an umbrella on top of the glass. If you are the one who would scan not into the menu book but the drinks menu, you'd be glad.

Just as I was scanning through the menu book, my eyebrows suddenly shot up. Shall I break here for a short commercial break? Lol just kidding!!! What I saw was something I'd seen for first then, 'Rabbit curry'. But today yes I know more than a couple of places that serves this rare delicacy. I didn't dare to try!

Barcode is a nice place to hang out for dinner than a lunch. The spirits menu variety seemed more then the variety in the food. Morover, ambience supports the same too.

Appologies for not posting pictures on the interior, I hadn't carried a camera and had to capture via my phone, hence couldn't capture anything inside the burrow without an effective flash!

Keep following to hear reviews on rabbit curry and reviews of other places those serve the same.

Flambe

It has been long since I have visited this small cozy place. Although I have been here twice, I don't have a reason as to why I have to go or not go next time. Confusing? Yeah, That is how I'm feeling currently. It is 5 in the morning without sleep watching movies all the way and multitasking this post.

I like the chess print cushion here. Flambe is a small place which can accomodate not more than 60 people at the same time. It is a place where you can hang out for a getogether, sit-chat and celebrate. I did none of these, but kept checking my watch as I had a call both times post lunch.

Food- Nothing great. In fact, tastes very meagre. The Jaljeera is a speciality here as they proclaim, but for me it tasted like plain water which had hajmola tablets dissolved in it. Booh!!
The food again wasn't anything to yap about.

Ambience - Small place, when it's rains heavily, they close the place with the jute curtains around which turn the interiors dark.

For me only gajar halwa and jamoon were slurpous.

Barbeque Nations review

(Barbeque Nations, Jayanagar, Bangalore)

OMG, where do I start from? BN or Barbeque Nations is something I frequent as equally as I do a parlor. Thanks to whosoever chose my office in the location it currently is in. Every dutch or client visit ends up with a lunch/dinner at Barbeque depending on what time the client would wish to spare time with offshore counterparts interacting here, doing the major part of coding and testing and contradictorily paid.

I have paid visit both the Barbeque Nations in Koramangala and Jayanagar. The above picture is of Jayanagar location. I personally feel although the service and food quality at both places are same, the ambience is Jayanagar is more enthraling. Morover below Barbeque Nations is a Spa and parlor. Post treating your stomach, you can nourish your skin too :).

BN is this famous for the conceptual luncheon or dine they provide, placing the barbeque holders on each table. Although price is above average compared to other buffet providing restaurants, its worth it!(500+tax, prices vary on weekdays, weekends,lunch, dinner, veg and non-veg, too complicated huh!?!?) Plus is, you can hard grill your pieces of veggies or chicken or fish or prawns any of what you ordered to your table and not the neighbour's table, yourself after marinating them.  Beware you may burn your fingers! Just kidding! (Not as long as you are sitting there after having a sleep walk). The serving process is never ending, untill you pull down the metallic flag placed over the table.

Food - Starters and desserts are the attraction here and only way via which you can make a complete paisa vasool. Deserts include rare cuisines like Phirni(a less sweetened moist sweet in a pot).

If you are here on any of your vegetarian days, you might only end-up gaping at others. Yes, there is 1 dish that I personally swoon in veg- Potato fry! Yummm......

Ambience - They have both closed and terrace. I chose to go terrace only for dinners to expose myself to chill air and cosy candle lit dinners. If you chose terrace during noons , be ready to get yourself barbequed by the hot air filtered by the fiber roof sheets.

My favourite - Barbeque Nation special pista bread. Some may like, some may not. I do neither but love it! I don't mind stealing it from neighbour's plate after finishing mine.

King size prawns , I can hog around 2 dozens. Now close your mouth! If you have not opened, stop counting how much 2 dozens end up to.

Pacific blue, a litchy flavoured mocktail with a cherry dropped in for show. Its upto you if you can manage to get the cherry out of glass without looking absurd.

Best part is the Birthday celebrations they make here, by vocally singing the 'Happy Birthday' song and dancing around the table of the birthday baby. A cake can also be ordered last minute as a surprise gift to your friend, yes ofcourse not your enemy.

Lunch @ Dug out!

One thing, err.... only thing good about Corporate life other then having earn mega bucks, which equally compensates for the stress, dark circles and hairfall is 'Team lunch'. Staying close to an area like Koramangala which houses all big names of restaurants and cool crowd is an added advantage. One cool and effective way of periodically venting out the collective stress piled, here periodically , I refer to Fridays :) . Even the spell of this angelic word would bring a smile from one ear to another. Bliss of all we corporate employees. Offf... I think this is enough of my rants about office.

Mid-Friday of the month, did it start without much expectations except the fact that it was Friday and the next day was Saturday (One good thing about following my blog is you would learn new things like this, that Saturday comes after Friday).

Since it was a sudden enlightment for me that we would be off to 'Dug out' for an Onsite-return(Office tradition where in people returned from onsite making some extra money would blow it up partially giving a treat, no matter the size of the team) treat, I wasn't prepared in a way a woman  would want to.

About the place - Dug-out is a place restaurant(both closed and roof-top) and bar. I usually prefer the roof top with chill air, especially the candle-lit dinner.

 

Food - Buffet is what I have always opted for, till date. Palak chat is my favourite. They have barbeque dishes too.

Ambience - I'd rate it 'Too good', for the large pebble studded ambience with the buoyance force created on walls and the entry.