Thursday, February 5, 2009

The Tasty Tangles, UB City, Bangalore

Having walked out of Toscano as they do not serve alcohol, I went to a restaurant on the other side of the terrace.  It looked quite appealing from outside with a fairly large area with tables both outside on the terrace (covered) and an airconditioned area.  The name was also quite intriguing - Tasty Tangles.
I was ushered in bu a courteous lady and seated.  I ordered for two starters - one veg - Chayote salad - it was plain cut vegetables in a sauce that had no taste - an absolutely bland dish and one non-veg - Fried Calamari Rings - It was batter fried calamari rings and was not bad.  Does not deserve any special mention though.
The Tom yum soup did not have any lemon grass - had a few pieces of jumbo prawns that were nice and juicy - but tom yum without lemon grass is unpardonable.  The 'small' portion of this soup that we had ordered was in itself a bit of a large serving.
Having tanked up in so many starters, we went for just one main course and a side dish to accompany.  We ordered some Singapore noodles - vegetarian - it was glass noodles with veggies in a soya sauce and was not bad.  The side dish was a kong pong prawns - The serving size was good.  There were quite a few pieces of jumbo prawns.  But it was not very flavourful.  It was a semi gravy with soya sauce overpowering the taste of the other spices and the bell pepper that the dish had.
The service - less said of this the better.  When we asked the waiter to serve the main course and the gravy - pat  came the reply that as a policy they do not serve.  The dishes are just left on the table and the patrons are expected to serve themselves.  Considering there is a 10% service charge on the total bill this is atrocious.
The bill for the aforementioned dishes came to around 1400 + service charge + taxes - around INR 1800. ( I had a couple of drinks -RC Whiskey- too and with the drinks the bill came to around INR 2300.)
When I saw the charge slip later, I realized that the amount was charged to 'Noodle House' - a place that I do not dig much.  Had I known this earlier, I might have thought twice about going to this joint.
Ordinary food and poor service - I would certainly not go there again.

3 comments:

cooking with chefs said...

the testy tangles saket
In delhi i was gone there its look like a waggamama(britsh cdr chain)
the food is to authentic its real fun enjoying the meal
i was order the kongpong prawn nice this a pure authentic food real i was enjoyed very much it was value for money the bakmi noodle and lamb randang with steam rice ultimate

i will suggest must be try twice times the chef have a major quality is consistency of food

i spend my every weekend in resto but i was not get the consistency of the dish

Anonymous said...

i suggest you try trying the new foodies now. now it has changed. i mean the last time i went there,they served me a dish with extra gravy too. they do serve the noodles though. i mean noodles tend to get abit too messy while trying to serve ourselves and yes its a causal dining restro so no harm in helping ourselves. =) all in all i enjoyed my dining time the time i was there in tasty tangles,bangalore. hope you do too the next time you go.

Anonymous said...

I just love the food at The Tasty Tangles (Bangalore, UB City). I recommend it to all. I had a great time dining there.