Showing posts with label expensive. Show all posts
Showing posts with label expensive. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Of Pot Pourris and Blue Frogs

Hey!
Last weekend was awesome! :) Lots of time spent with family and then some just by ourselves! Saturday lunch was at Pot Pourri Wold Cuisine Cafe at the InOrbit Mall in Vashi. Have been there once before as well.. What, I didn't write about that?! OK, then a little backtrack. Had been there sometime back and had the buffet at lunch. This is a good idea for me, as I end up being the lone vegetarian in the group. I could try all sorts of stuff. Worth mentioning are the Salsa sauce and the Hummus!! Oh, the Hummus!! They had crisp Pita bits with the Hummus... could not have enough of them!!
This time round the kids had the Margarita as usual, and the Mushroom Soup. I had the Veggie Salsa Burger... very impressive! The others had the Thai Red Chicken Curry and the Chicken Stroganoff (is that how you spell it?) which were both very good.
The ice teas (Peach, Strawberry, Blackcurrant and Lemon) are all great.. maybe a tad too sweet for many. The Minty Melon drink was tried and appreciated. So was the Homestyle Apple Lemonade.. (yes you read that right!).
To top it up we had the Sizzling Brownie with Ice Cream... pretty standard stuff there.. but we enjoyed it thoroughly coz we had it after ages!
Perfect Saturday Lunch!

Then Sunday was a different story. Radio One's RJ Malini, one my favourite RJs on my favourite radio station in Mumbai, was very kind to give me passes to the Weirdass Ham-ateur Night at Blue Frog in Lower Parel. So G and I got to spend a night out in town! The show was brilliant!! So was the food!! We were lucky to catch happy hour.. Our drinks for the day were Raz-mattaz and Tajihito. Two glasses down, the amateur comedians were real funny!! ;) The starter was a quaint quiche... french beans, cheese and coconut... hmmm, much like chapati-bhaji really... a little disappointing. But the main course was awesome.. I had the Penne with Cherry Tomatoes.. two words... mmm mmmm! G had the Sloppy Joe ad reported it to be great! We refrained from dessert although the menu looked soooo inviting!
Much fun was had and a big bill was rung up too!!

Cheers!!

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Lunch at Spice Tree

March 29, 2008. 1:30pm. Spice Tree, Hill Road, Bandra (W).
Or should I say Price Tree! Great food, but a wee bit overpriced. Loved the ambiance on a slow Saturday afternoon. Could watch the match (India vs SA test) on a little screen in a corner. Curious thing about the paintings... they were custom made, and each of them had the red chilli symbol of Spice Tree inconspicusously placed somewhere.
So, about the food then...
I had a slight cold and was craving hot soup, so I got the usual Cream of Tomato, which turned out to be just what the doctor ordered!
The Vegetable Kurkure were nice and crisp and were polished off by us in no time...
For the main course, I got the Vegetable Makkhanwala and Lachcha parathas, and G got some Manglorean Chicken which was not on the menu. They served that with Appams.
The lachcha parathas were worth more than a mention. Dripping in butter but awesome all the same.
We could not save space for desserts, plus we had to get back to work...
So till next time....
Guten Appetit!