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- Burrping since Sep 10, 2006
- Burrping fromMumbai
Reviews by dhruti_22
Dec 06, 2007
274, VS Marg, Shivaji Park, Dadar (W), Mumbai
Poor
unauthentic Thai cusine
I have been very fond of Thai food and have relished the cuisine at all the authentic Thai restaurants across the globe, although have not come across a truly authentic Thai restaurant in Bombay.
Location -Tamnak Thai is located at Shivaji Park, close to office and i have passed this place a zillions time with the desire to try out some authentic Thai food. Finally one Friday afternoon i managed to con my 2 collegeous and friends to try out some Thai food and we went for lunch
Ambience- The Ambience of this place is nice, it reminds me of china garden. The irony of the situation was, when i saw a nice big ganpati moorti placed at the entrance and the liquor trolley placed right in front of the moorti, which looked like the liquor was being offered to god.
Food- For starters we ordered spinach wraps, which were dip fried. They tasted all right but there wasn’t anything thai about it.
Pad- Thai was good but the Thai curry wasn’t any great shakes and nore the chicken rice that my friends ordered
All in the all was lighter by a couple of rupees from the wallet but still leaving my quest for authentic Thai food behind. Would never go this place again
Price- This i place is slightly on the expensive side
Jul 09, 2007
Geetika Co-op Housing Society, 85 SV Road, Santacruz (W), Mumbai
Awful
CHINESE murder
Dynasty- I have seen this restaurant for years now, but thankfully had never ventured in to eat or would have definitely stopped eating Chinese long back.Personally I am not fond of Chinese food,especially Indian Chinese but in my sleepy state of mind,I agreed to accompany my friends at any damn restaurant they wanted to go.
Ambiance – The ambience is not fancy, very cramped and blaring AC, can already turn you off.
Food- We ordered some veg crispies,jumbo prawns, wantons and some schezwan triple rice noodles.Veg crispies was ok, but nothing exotic about it.Wantons. When I ordered wantons the steamed variety, I had envisaged it to be a small steamed dumpling filled with some vegetables, something that looks like small money bag filled with stuffings inside, what we got is something that looked like Oversized flat noodles with some mixture in it. When I asked the waiter, he conveniently explained to me that this is exactly the way wantons are made. The dish Triple schezwan rice noodles, seemed like something prepared after mixing all the leftovers, and it was very sour.After eating at this restaurant I don’t want to ever eat Chinese. I went home and brushed my teeth, to get out this bad taste, but even now( morning) I feel sick of having eaten that food.
Why would you go there- If you are someone who likes to eat Indian Chinese street food and are looking at eating in a good air-conditioned ambience come here ,or if you are a connoisseur of authentic Chinese food and want to stop eating Chinese then this is the place to be
Apr 01, 2007
Taj Lands End, Bandstand, Bandra (W), Mumbai
Awful
eeeeeeeeeksss.Hate chinese
Ming Yang- We were looking for a quiet place to have a good chinese meal, in Bandra, so i thought it being a saturday, it would be a good idea to go to Ming Yang, a popular chinese restaurant in Lands end. So at about 9pm, i called to check if they had a table for 3. At about 9:15p.m we walk in to the restaurant.It is quite empty and inspite of having a few tables in non- smoking section they force us to sit in the smoking section
Service- We wait for more then ten mins, till some one decides to give us the food menu and the beverage menu. We are already quite irriated. Anyways the sides they serve are just ok, the papaya is very sour, and the cabbage is loaded with vinegar. The cashew with sesame seeds is ok
Food
Sides
The sides they serve are just before are food arives is just ok, the papaya is very sour, and the cabbage is loaded with vinegar. The cashew with sesame seeds is ok . The jasmine tea they serve us has no flavour its just like drinking a cup of hot water
Starters & Soup
The sweet corn soup(around 300 bucks) was just ok, although the portion size is very small. The dimsum we orderd is just edible, although the other two people with me quite like it
Food
The flat noodles with vegetables we ordered are just too flat and hardly have any vegetables in it. The kenya beans we ordered have too much of salt
By the end of this meal i feel, so sick, i promise i will not eat Chinese for sometime
Mar 15, 2007
143, Imamwada Road, Haroon Manzil Block, Near Metro Opticians, Dongri, Mazagaon, Mumbai
Good
Baklavas in Mumbai
Iranian Sweet Palace
I had imagined it to be one of those typical sweet shops like Zam Zam, huge in size and ignited with lights.
Iranian Sweet Palace has an old board, without lights, you could easily miss the shop if you were not looking carefully. Hasan the owner of the shop was standing outside probably gazing at the chaos outside. He welcomed me with a smile and recognized me instantly to be the mad women coming to buy Baklavas from the other end of town. The shop didn’t look like a sweet shop at all, there were these huge plates full of Baklavas, Pista & Kesar( similar to Baklava but made of pista & Kesar). The Baklavas are prepared in the Iranian style with more of the sweet and less of the pastry part, the ones I had eaten were more Turkish and French style. Baklavas are for 450rupees a kg. The problem is that Baklavas weigh a lot but are small in size, so you don’t have much of choice but to buy the 1 kg packing
The baklavas are made here in the traditional Iranian style, cooked with wood fire. Hasan`s family has been running this shop for more than 98 years now. Hasan claims to have the only shop in India to be preparing Baklavas, that too only in one month of the year. He also has some Iranian sweets and dates. When I recommend him to advertise his sweets in paper, he contently tells me “ I am just happy doing this, just catering to Irani community, I have enough for my self, I sold my restaurant Light of Asia for a fortune, I have 3 other houses, some are on rent, and some good investment in stock exchange, so I don’t need anything”.
Baklava or Baklawa is a rich, sweet pastry found in many cuisines of the Middle East, the Balkans and South Asia and developed in Ottoman cuisine. It is made of chopped nuts, usually walnuts or pistachios, layered with phyllo pastry, sweetened with sugar or honey syrup.In Turkey, it is particularly associated with the city of Gaziantep
If u want to get your Backlavas head to Iranian Sweet Palace before 20 March 07
Sep 24, 2006
BDMC Compound, Behind Bombay Dyeing, Pandurang Budhkar Marg, Worli, Mumbai
Average
India gets its first Hard Rock!
Hard Rock cafe is located at Bombay Dyeing Mill compound just further to Mahindra towers. I have been wanting to visit this place since i heard it was opening in Feb, but unfortunately due to license issues it closed down. So finally when it opened 2 weeks ago i just had to visit it, but just didnt get a chance until yesterday post work
As you get off at BDMcompound, there is just one small board says HardRock Cafe Mumbai and you wonder how big or small this cafe would be. As you walk in towards the cafe entrance its almost seems like your walking to some underground place.I am astonished by the sign (40rs car park) that is somthing. On the way i pass through Shero( dont knwo if i get the spelling right) in another huge fancy lounge bar.
As i walk towards what seems like the entrance of Hard Rock, am delighted to be greeted by the huge neon sign in a shape of a guita, its not lighted right now, but i can imagine how cool it would look
Ambience- The doors are huge and the interiors have huge ceilings coz of the mill structure. The Hard Rock cafe is huge. Even the Hard Rocks that i have visited in Chicago and Buffalo(niagra falls) has not been so huge.The cafe has three diffrent sitting areas that is threee dinning areas and one bar area. The walls are done in through Hard rock style with memorablia of rockstars ranging from Elton John to Bob Dylan to Madonna and Spice girls, videos playing on the televison, records etc.
Service- The service is very attentive,i am visiting the place around evening before dinner time so you can see a battelion of waiters being given instructions by the manager, preparing for the Saturday night
Food- The main choices are sandwiches & salads and some exotic mocktails. All the food is steeply priced starting at Rs 275.I enjoy my Iced Cafe(75bucks) and hold on my Cheese cake its their traditional one(275) bucks. But the Cheese cake is really good, one of the freshest cheese cakes i have eaten in a while
Over all experience- Nice place to visit, but for some strange reason it makes me feel no diffrent from a visit to Chillis or Ruby Tuesday.