Barbecue!

One of the facets of Bangalore these days is the kind of cuisines that you can savour. While the “idli vada” and by two coffee would never go out of reckoning, for the enthusiast who doesn’t mind coming out of an upmarket restaurant with both his pockets and stomach empty, there are never ending options. From the Italian to Mexican, American to Pani puri counters round the corner there are choices galore.

One place we ended up in yesterday was this place called Barbecue Nation in Koramangala. As the name suggests, its a barbecue restaurant. Be warned that this is a biased view of a hardcore veggie. Don’t ask me why I ended up there…When you are a team player, you end up where everyone else wants to. “Plus it isn’t a bad place for veggies too” – I missed the wicked grin when my team mate was suggesting that. We were reserved a table on the first floor of the restaurant, which is the second floor of the building. It was the roof top, done up brilliantly. Except for the cooler fan which keeps spraying water and the smaller fans that keep blowing hot air from the barbecues into a few unfortunate faces round the table, the ambience was great.

Onto the food. They have a buffet for Rs. 275, and you can top it up with grills of your choice or take 450 Rupee option that has unlimited grills with the buffet. The veggie spread included potatoes, mushrooms, capsicum and pineapple/olives for the barbecue, plus the usual roti/nan/daal/paneer for the buffet. The veggie grills were nowhere close to what we expected. I mean I’d never heard of pineapple grills before and boy we missed the paneer tikka.  And where was the baby corn that we find grilled at every street corner? To our relief, they did serve corn and paneer on our plate, though not as grills. An innovative colleague took the paneer served on the plate and converted it to a paneer fry.

The salad spread was decent and the dessert wasn’t great. From the veggie side it was a thumbs down. When we turned around to see the other side, Maneka Gandhi would’ve cringed. Everyone’s face from the non-veg side told the same story – “We’re loving every minute of it, what are you guys looking at?!”

So I took time out and drew up what I could think of:

Dangerous team lunch

Power cuts in Bangalore

Here’s one I drew up based on the experience of a colleague. Power cuts were quite frequent in Bangalore this summer and have managed to linger on somehow.