This place was highly recommended by my host in Mumbai. We did not find any seating when we reached the place @ 8 pm and had to wait till around 9 pm to be seated.
We caught the chef who was outside and requested him to recommend some main courses. He recommended a special lamb and a special fish dish.
The lamb dish was lamb braised with red wine and served with garlic bread - some of the best lamb I have had in the recent past. The fish was a pan fried salt water locally available white meat fish served with mashed potato. The fish was juicy and fresh but paled in comparison with the braised lamb.
The beef sandwich was quite large and we immediately requested them to cut it and pack half as a take away. The fried beef in the sandwich was done to perfection, browned outside and pink inside - nice and juicy with other vegetables, mayonnaise and quite filling.
The roast pumpkin soup was very flavourful and thick and was a good starter.
The best part was the cocktail that we had called brandy toddy - brandy mixed with a couple of table spoons of cloves and cinnamon sticks, some orange peel and granny smith apple to garnish and mixed with honey and hot water and served in a brandy glass. Simply superb and cleared our blocked nostrils and our congested throats (on account of a lot of beer over the last couple of days) in a jiffy.
However, the second round of the same drink that we ordered had far less spices than the first round - a shame.
The three main courses mentioned above, 7 brandy toddies, a 'Due of Melon' - vodka with chunks of various melons (nice sweet drink without the taste of alcohol), a veg pasta, a dry martini and an espresso cost us INR 5300/- quite steep.
The place is air-conditioned and seats around 100 pax. The service is quite good - but they did not give us the sandwich takeaway when we left - a shame.
Reco - go there for the brandy toddy and for some good continental food. Mind the prices.
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