Jun 15, 2009 09:22 PM
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I have often eating at the older version of Indian Summer, the famous Purohit's thali. When Indian Summer opened about twelve years ago, I decided to try it out. I had gone to it the first time within a year of it opening, but my memory of this is limited to the fact that my wife and I had gone late - as late as half past eleven at night on a week-day, and the fact that we had just had a milk shake or something and returned, since their kitchen had already closed for the night.
However, a new opportunity presented itself when my younger daughter requested us to take the family out on her last Sunday before the school re-opened. Hence, this visit is fresh, as it happened just yesterday night.
I think it helps to book a table in advance, and this is exactly what I did, getting the number of the restaurant from the Times Good Food Guide. Although we arrived about fifteen minutes late, the manager had kept the booking active, and accomodated us at a nice, inside, ground floor level table within five minutes. The stewards and the waiters were courteous, and although they tended to forget getting the things we had ordered in the proper sequence, they were polite, and even replaced a mocktail that one of the waiters spilled some curry in!
When we pointed out that the AC wasn't strong enough, the manager himself came to us and then adjusted the AC louvres to get us the best benefit of the cooling.
The food that we ordered was served hot, fresh and with a smile. The portions were sufficient too. In fact, we had to parcel the entire rice item as we had filled and contented ourselves with the soup, starter and the curry dishes.
Our order was as follows: One Indian Summer special chicken soup divided into two portions for my wife and me; two mocktails, one Pina Colada and one Blue Lagoon for my daughters; Hussaini Kabob and Chicken Masala Kabobs for starters(these were both delightful, and accompanied by tasty garlic and mint chutneys and lots of onions and carrots salad); the main dish of Fish Goan Curry that we had with kulchas and roomali rotis, and finally the kheema rice(which we parcelled).
The cost of the above meal, including VAT of 12%, was 1700/- Which isn't so bad, but surely, a little on the expensive side.
