Angeethi, Museum Inn

The restaurant is attached to Museum Inn on Museum Road and is quite a popular one.  It is a roof top alfresco restaurant.  It serves predominantly North Indian cuisine and is part of the BJN group of restaurants.  I had gone there for a Friday lunch buffet.

Food - There were a host of items, including a chat counter - which I avoided as I was there for lunch.  There were a host of vegetarian and non-veg dishes.  The spinach soup was served at the table and was great a slightly creamy soup.  The veg biriyani and the mutton biriyani were really good.  The meat in the mutton biriyani was cooked to perfection.  It was the typical layered North Indian style of biriyani and not the South Indian or Hyderabadi style. 

The prawn gravy a curry type dish was not bad - but nothing to write home about.  There were a host of veg gravies that I did not end up tasting.  A veg sheek kebab and the chicken tikka were good. 

A variety of Indian breads (tandoor cooked) were served at the table. 

There were a host of salads - nothing great - and curd rice on offer at the buffet.

The carrot halwa was good and the rasa malai was awesome - fresh and not too sweet.

There was a counter that dished out gola (shaved ice with a choice of syrups) - something that you usually do not find in restaurants - I loved it.  There was also a choice of ice creams.

There is a paan counter - you could order your pan and pay for it.

Ambiance - The place was packed and additional tables seemed to have been added to make the most of the popularity of the place on a Friday afternoon.  There was hardly any place to walk.  The tandoor was spewing smoke on a third of the tables. 

Valet parking is available (its a short walk from the MG Road metro station).

Service - We were seated promptly since we had booked a table.  But service was unable to keep up with the crowd - serving the soups and bread at the tables and filling the fast emptying food counters.  It was slow.

Cost - @ 400 per person it seemed worth it for the food if not anything else....the paan in the paan counter are expensive.

Summary - Food - great; Ambiance - poor; Service - poor; Cost - acceptable.

Reco - I would like to go there, perhaps not on a Friday when I expect it to be a little less crowded.