Kahwa is a 24 hour coffee shop serving multi cuisine food and boasting of a live pizza oven. I had infact wanted to go to the Pan Asian restaurant in the hotel but was told that the same was open only for dinner / supper. The place is quite large, spacious and well lit and can easily seat over 100 pax. It is located just beyond the lobby of the hotel.
The restaurant serves both ala carte and buffet and they have separate menus for lunch and dinner. I thought I would go in for the buffet so that I taste a wider variety of dishes. The multi cuisine buffet had North and South Indian dishes, Chinese and Continental dishes.
Typical of a business hotel in a business district, the restaurant was quite empty on the Saturday afternoon.
Going for
+ Fairly large spread with 5 non veg dishes, 5 veg side dishes a few rice and noodle varieties and a few salads and desserts. Indian bread is served fresh on the table and so are a few starters.
+ Pleasantly welcomed and seated.
+ The veg Hakka noodles, the fried brinjal in soya sauce and the fresh veg and chicken dimsums served as starters. The cream of pumpkin soup was also very tasty.
+ Fresh hot tandoori (char grilled) Indian bread (this is standard in India in any multi cuisine buffet)
+ Karamani Thoran - A Kerala dry fry made with spices, long beans and grated coconut with coconut oil.
+ Indian desserts. The gulab jamun (fried flour balls in syrup) was fresh, tasty, soft and not too sweet and so were the gajar ka halwa (sweet made with grated carrots) and the rosogolla (a Bengali sweet made with paneer or Indian cottage cheese and syrup).
No going for
- The North Indian mutton gravy dish was as bland as could have been, although the mutton was juicy and well cooked.
- The salad section was nothing special and although there were half a dozen vegetarian and non vegetarian salads on offer, it was not appealing.
- The vegetables with mixed mushrooms was boiled vegetables and the mushrooms were nothing but soggy water filled mushrooms. Not that the mushroom flavour had permeated or complimented the vegetables either.
- Only one vegetarian and one non vegetarian starter is served on the table - the vegetarian one was a kind of fried cheese and was not bad. However, the chicken tikka was disappointing in that one expects it to be boneless.
- The vendakai kara kozhumbu - meant to be a Tamil Nadu dish - a spicy light gravy with okra - was bland and tasteless.
- There were no fruits either as part of the desserts or as part of the salad counter.
- The bread varieties - except for the shape tasted just the same.
- The western desserts - nothing worth a mention.
- There was iced tea on display but we were told that it was not part of the buffet.
- Service - was very lax with respect to removing the plates from the table, attending to the table or in handling the billing.
- Not value for money.
Cost - @ INR 550/- per person and a pint of Bud costing INR 200/- certainly very expensive.
Reco - Avoid the buffet. The Chinese dishes showed promise, probably the Pan Asian restaurant is good?
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