Well, I read about the Goan food festival in a few papers; and since blue waters was so close to home; I decided to check it out.
The total area of the restaurant is huge; it has an outdoor area with an open kitchen for the tandoor dishes. It has an indoor restaurant, and also a terrace area (which was so dimly lit, I couldn’t see my plate). The second floor has a party/banquet hall for parties and conferences. After checking out the terrace, we decided to sit in the indoor restaurant. Initially, what was disappointing was the lack of people in the restaurant (all three floors combined). It looked that there were three tables in the entire restaurant, so the place looked gloomy. A lot of effort had been put in to make people get the ‘Goan’ feed (hawaian shirts, fishing nets on the wall, big plastic fish.. the works), but that didn’t help much. To sum up the interiors and atmosphere in one word, gloomy.
Anyways, we ordered the crab special for starters and chicken vindaloo and rice for the main course. Let me vent out my anger over the bad food in as few words as possible. The crab: it wasn’t goan, it was crab cooked in schewan sauce; the waiter then says that ya.. the goan crab is made in schewan sauce.. wtf $%#^???. The quantity of rice would have sufficed a sparrow, and the chicken vindaloo was soo bad, that we actually couldn’t eat beyond the first two spoons (by which time the rice got over :) ).
Restaurants like blue waters should stick to making Indian food, the common dishes that are popularly ordered. If they decide to do a theme for a month; they should atleast hire a good chef first. I don’t think I am going back to blue waters again..
shamz
