Oct 11, 2007
Just visited the Sahara Star this week for a buffet lunch and am impressed with the up-coming 5 star hotel and its decor..
We had a buffet at the Coffee shop called - Hot Plate which was awesome...
In terms of food the variety is tremendous - nearly 12 main course items in non-veg and 12 in veg.
A huge salad counter and dessert bar alongwith choice of ice-cream & tea & coffee..
We started with the Chicken Manchow soup which was good and progressed to the murg malai kabab (melt in the mouth variety), goong bow chicken (which was good but a bit on the bland side). The handi murg (boneless) was great too..
Besides this we tried the goan fish curry, poached fish with spicy sauce, brown rice and saag ghost (the best!), beef chilly and rice noodles with seafood...
In terms of veg, the starters were all Gujarati - variety of dhoklas, patras, dahivadi etc..The veg main course was good too - specially the alu methi, paneer makhani and gobi masala...
Desserts - moong dal halwa and sugarless chocolate cake made our day!
Of course, besides this there were quite a few varieties of cakes, pastries, kaju/pista mithais, ras - malai available too but we did not attempt to try them out..
Service was good too.. The total cost - nearly Rs. 2000/- for 2 of us for the buffet.
They have a very good sea-food speciality restaurant too and an Indian speciality restaurant called Namak too..
The sea-food restaurant is set in a giant aquarium atmosphere like the one we see in the water parks abroad..
The huge indoor atrium is full of greenery like the tropical forests..A must -see..
Cheers,
Ajai Bathija