Yesterday J, D and me met for the first time this year and what better to do then to gawk at obscenely expensive clothes and accessories and top it up with a sumptuous meal…at least that was the plan.
The venue for this rendezvous was the new UB City in Bangalore…Now you know what I mean by “obscenely expensive”
The first part of the evening was adventurous…we ventured into name less stores and looked through innumerable racks of clothes and shoes and jewelry…Every girl’s dream come true except that they were mostly un wearable and un affordable…sigh…
So after we were completely worn out we decided to head to this new place for dinner – Khansamas by the BJN group…some colleagues and online reviews highly recommended the place both for ambience and food…not wanting to spend time waiting, I had made reservations before hand and quite rightly the place was packed…after waiting for 10 minutes while the waiter was getting out tables ready we entered the place…the smell of the place was extremely appetizing and made you want to devour anything in the vicinity ;) we took some time ordering drinks…most of them were the regular drinks, no big surprises there…very surprisingly the number of waiters for the number of tables they had we really low…and as a result the service was actually pathetic…I don’t know if this is the regular feature or just some problem yesterday… the waiter who took our order for the drink brought only two out of three drinks after 15 minutes…and then we spent another 10minutes locating the waiter and reminding him that he had forgotten the third drink…we had ordered a regular chicken starter…and the starter was served but there were no napkins on the table…after again trying to locate the waiter I failed and had to finally asked the usher (I hope I am using the right word) to get me the napkins…this was a slight let down…and I don’t think throughout our stay there which was almost 2.5 hours anyone refilled our glasses…
Now coming onto the food…the menu is ok not too great…though there are a lot of vegetarian options…we decided to be adventurous and ordered a crab…I was going to try that for the first time but my friends were all out in their love for crab..so they specifically told the waiter to get the crab without the shell as (I discovered this later) eating with the shell is a nuisance…after a long wait we got our food which looked really appetizing…but we discovered that the crab came with the shell…after complaining to waiter we were told that there is no other way it could be cooked…so we dug into the crab…my friends guiding me at every step on how a crab should be eaten…and it was easily one of the best meals of my life I loved the crab and the way of eating it…so what I enjoyed had nothing to do with the ambience…or the quality of food…but it was the company and the crab ;)
Though to be fair…the waiter was very polite and they gave us a complimentary crab dish which was without the shell when they saw us struggling with the crab…though the crab meat gravy was nothing compared to the original gravy we had ordered which was very yummm…
Coming to the ambience…the décor of very ordinary…the lighting was good though…but there were too many tables in too short a space and the whole place was way too noisy…there were some nice murals…the glasses were like old styled goblets and the cutlery was had a old jaded look to it…overall very ordinary and nothing creative about it…
All in all a regular place where you can have a good meal and happy times…but nothing extraordinaire…
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