Keys restaurant review

Located almost in the outskirts (not really!) , Keys restaurant comes over to your left on the Hosur main road. The building is somewhat unique. Initially I was wondering if an ariel view of the same restaurant would look like a 'Key' (I'm proud I get such thoughts).

This is one place where buffet is served for both lunch and dinner. Needless to say, both are priced differently. Lunch around 239+tax Dinner 249+tax.

 It is a beautiful place. The place to the dine area consists of some innovative paper made wall hangings. Looks neat! Yes it is 4 star!

I have been here for a couple of times. The food tastes too good here. The desserts list on buffet is too long! The list of other food items for both veg and non-veg is sufficient enough compared to other places.

Best part being here is this place is not crowded like other mid-city bred located restaurants. You can have your quality time here with your friends, collegues, family or even strangers.

Sultans of spice Blue petals restaurant review

     The chairs are comfortably cushioned and the place can accomodate around 75 approx easily. A long table for 20-25 is also isolately located with a LCD tv playing some boring channels. Anyways who goes there to watch TV huh unless and untill you go there with your family where in women have scheduled addiction to one of those Ekta Kapoor soaps?

         Not always do we go to a restaurant for batting! (If you are a old, civilised and a decent person, 'Batting' is local youth slang for hogging). Sometimes we go there for some speciality, that once in blue moon, pulls us like a magnet. One such restaurant is 'Blue petals'. So what's the speciality? (If you've been a regular reader of my blog so far, you'd know I drive it like a television soap). Keep reading!!

Located in a viral hub, diagonally opposite to Jyothi nivas collage, it is not easy to ignore the restaurant. It is placed on the topmost floor. Not to worrly elavator will carry you there.

Its again one of those places where you can chose buffet @ noon and 'order from menu' for suppers.

The seating arrangement is good. The ambience makes you feel like you have entered some arabic palace. Hookas although not for use as far as I've seen, are stocked at the entrance for deco spice up.

The food is always yummm.... The variety is good. They make hot jalebis, right in front of you, if you are a sweet tooth like me, you'll love this place. The dessert menu is simply so awesome.

The finger bowl usually would consist of a lemon only, but here, they garnish it with flower petals too, but the petals are not blue. I have partially clarified to you why the name. Just kidding! (the petal part is true)

Yes here is the interesting part , you have been waiting for. After your last dessert, you usually tend to ask for bill or check. But here, do not forget! Ask for tequila pan shot. Yes, the pan spices(Gulkan, beetle leaf, mint, freshners) are squeezed and grated in mixer and presented in a shot pitcher.

One gulp! Aaaahhhhhh....

Personal favourite - I personally love the chicken shorba here. Yes the pan shot too!! Sluuurrpp...!!

Fire of dust!

Few days ago Mr. Ghost rider had come to Bangalore, covering 50kms from New Airport road towards Electronic city. But when reached silkboard junction, unexpectedly the fiery, fearful, raging bike stopped abruptly at the Silkboard junction. In fact his lower jaw was hanging loose over his shoulder, ribcage cluttered and his pelvic joint off track spinal bone. With much anguish and anger he screamed louder, his scream thundered to miles. Lampposts fell like matchsticks. The reason for his and his 2 wheeler current status was traced to the abundant potholes, manholes and yes supermanholes on Bangalore city roads. He cited "I feel like a bunch of nails were shuffled inside a tin box". The silencer of the vehicle had fallen somewhere back and he hadn't realised.

To relieve his tensed muscles bones he stopped his bike in front on 'Nair tea kadai', at 11:55 p.m. After 5 minutes, traffic truck ruthlessly, pulled the rugged beast into the truck as it had struck 12 and the parking sign board for the day was on the other side. After 6 months all the major parts of the vehicle were sabotaged and sold, whatever was remaining was dumped on silkboard footpath.

When I saw this plighful condition, I could nothing but only take this picture!

Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) review

KFC rather Kentucky Fried chicken is a  huge and famous chicken chain, spread its root across all areas in all cities. I have been to more than 5 KFCs (Mantri mall, HSR layout, Rajajinagar, Forum mall, Sarjapur total mall, etc,.) across city. The food qulity and service is uniform all across.

Don't go by the name, they have localised the brand and introduced Veg too. You get to learn a new term here for burger, Zinger. For more help on pronounciation, I shall introduce a text to voice convertor soon. Just kidding!

The best part of the chain is , even if you enter the store at peak time, you'd be serviced with a minimal waiting period unlike other places. They have very good combo offers for both veg and non-veg. The newly introduced Krushers are a major attraction if you are a milkshake, mmoocktail person like me. These krushers come with a big pipe to accomodate the easy flow of big uncrushed pieces of chocolate pieces. The dessert section needs a neccessary updation, currently with only a choco lava pastry and few ice creams.

The chain keeps updating its recipe with newer ones. The recently introduces fierry chicken with indian spices and grilled chicked is a rage in my circle.

Initially the seating was really very boring with plastic chairs, offlate they have introduced the round cushion stands without back rest. Same as in MCD, I can say!

The combos and chicken  buckets are worth the deal when you go with an empty stomach. Another innovative and an attractive attempt is, you can chose your own pieces on a particular combos.

One of the most impressive attempt is there are times, they presonally take you for a tour into the cooking area to showcase the hygiene and maintanance. The chicken pieces are stored in bulk in cold temperature.

A special note of appreciation to the enthusiastic and ever-energitic (No deviation in service quality from morning to night) staff.

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.