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Restaurant in Andheri (E)
Rated: Average
based on 3 reviews
Lake View Café
Renaissance Mumbai Hotel and Convention Centre, 2 & 3 II. Near Chinmayanad Ashram, Powai, Andheri (E), Mumbai
66927550
| Locality | Powai,Andheri (E) |
|---|---|
| Place Type | Restaurant |
| Food Type | Indian, Continental, Italian |
| Timings | Open 24 Hours |
| Price |
Very Expensive
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first reviewed by Nidhee
- User Reviews (3)
Aug 30, 2008
Go for just ambience & desserts
The cafe is something to go for if your ready to splurge a little, want to have a nice long chat with a few friends/family and love a lake side view.
I'd suggest calling up and reserving a good lake facing table few hours beforehand. Lunch is actually a good option since there's a good buffet for 1000/- and a little more if you'd like a drink to go with it. The place is quite booked up for lunches hence I'd suggest to reserve first. This is THE place to go for when you want to enjoy a lovely monsoon day.
I took my parents out here specifically on a Sunday when I saw the dense clouds had settled around the lake and we hadn't reserved the place. We had to wait for an hour to get a table but it was just beautiful. The dinner ambience is also good.
The food is alright, but the desserts are quite a spread of souffles and not the extra rich desserts which you cant really enjoy once you've had a couple of bites.
Dec 29, 2007
lake side? (naah)...road side? (yeahh)!
big place......properly -lit, thoughtful seating, comfortable chairs, full glass wall overlooking the Powai lake...quite makes u conjure up an image of a great 5 star rated coffee shop......eager to serve u delectable food through the night??....well its just quite not!!....the denting factor in this whole fairy tale is the worthlessness of their food....and by worthlessness, i mean the sheer inattentiveness that has gone into making the food items or even designing the menu!
What I just fail to understand is the fact that when the restaurant next door (Nawab Saheb) dishes out one great menu after another with impeccable flavours and taste, how come a diametrically opposite and contrasting attitude is reflected in this place?
We prodded this place just an hour after midnight scavenging for some starters and more.
For drinks, we placed an order for watermelon juice. Priced at Rs. 125/-, it was served straight from the juicer, I believe with no hint or effort of cooling the drink.
For solids, we had:
1) french fries (Rs. 90/-) which were strictly okay, (can't go wrong there, eh??...show me the wrong here...haha)
2) buffalo wings (no no no.....they were chicken wings actually, ...in some tomato-ey zingy sour tasting sticky sauce) with blue cheese.
3) herbed mushroom for Rs. 130/- (an assortment of pungent mushrooms in all sizes and flavours....i think that was their way of telling me to FO...who the hell you think you are to disturb us and our chefs at 1 in the nite?)
All in all, a worthless night out, a beauty of a locale wasted away to callous uncaring management, and luring people under the guise of its other brilliant restaurants.
Apr 17, 2007
Disappointing
After having been a total loyalist to their Chinese outlet I was amazingly disappointed by the café.
After having racked our brains to the hilt we decided to go to this Sunday brunch. Inspite of making reservation we were surprised to see that the person who had taken the request had forgotten to write it down. Well. We were given another table. So far so good.
The brunch had three types
Only food for 1000/- per person inclusive of taxes
Food and vodka based cocktails for 1200/- per person inclusive of taxes
Food and sparkling wine for 1000/- per person inclusive of taxes
We opted for the second one. And to our relief the bartender was the best I have ever met. A friendly person, quick to understand the needs and come up with excellent solutions. I am not a big cocktail buff but he had me hooked to this Spanish cocktail called Bronze. Smooth and potent.
The food was a major source of disappointment. The salads were sorry, the cold cuts were good but very few choices and they served caviar with a steel spoon, now need I say more?
The main course was equally depressing. The pasta with bolognaise sauce took over 20 minutes to be served and trust me I could only eat a forkful… so insipid. The roast lamb with peanut and cous cous was ok and the roasted pork with apricot was downright sorry. The only edible item was the chicken biryani.
The only silver lining to the food were the roast turkey (with a terrible cranberry sauce and a very good horse radish sauce) and the roast beef (with the brilliant brown sauce).
As for desserts they were trying some modified version of the Crêpe Suzette, but the crêpe was a tad too thick making it insipid. The chocolate walnut cake pieces with the flowing hot chocolate were good and the fresh fruit cake awesome.
Service 10 on 10 (it being sunday brunch the atmosphere was casual yet courteous.)
Food: 6 on 10
Bar: 10 on 10