The first thing that you notice as soon as you reach this place is that it might require some connections to get inside the restaurant, at least that is what they make you feel by the crowd standing outside and the number of guards and people you have to talk to before understanding where the actual place is.
Well my first time, thanks to the distance from where we have recently moved in and not many options around, I finally decided to give it a shot. Well the chronology to get into it is something like this:
Park your vehicle around the building(yes, the restaurant is actually called a cave primarily, as they say, its a theme, but actually because you have to crawl under the building in its basement.) I thought there was something I missed but actually the whole lot is an office building so you don’t have any problem with the parking as all the offices are shut. "You can choose your parking spot".
Then you see a lot of chairs set outside the building all around where people are sitting waiting, I then realized that you have to wait for at least an hour or so, had not much choice so went ahead and gave my name and number to the manager downstairs and came back. There is a hostess who serves some refreshments in the mean while but only if you are lucky to have caught her sight, I wasn’t:( but anyways right after somewhere around 45 minutes, I get a call from the manager on my cell to please come down. Woah!
I was offered a seat in a dimly lit area(lets just say that it was the dark region of the "forest") with a bulb hanging right behind my back.(Am not being a critic for who designed the place, but if there is light then it should atleast not be behind you, every time you hold that spoon, your shadow would block your vision to see how the food looks right before you eat it, I personally thought that was "unthoughtful")
The ambiance is creative but overdone, the staff is courteous but their number is actually more than required for the space that they have, then of course the food, well I would say it tastes good and the quantity is sufficiently large for those dog packs that you might be interested in "just in case", that is if you are ready to overlook the overcooked papads and undercooked naans at a few places and those unfortunate instances of those forgotten orders(I was really unlucky it seems).and finally the cost of it all which I feel that was not expensive for the quantity and quality that they serve you.
Rest apart, nothing to feel really good about the place, just a little overdone to make it sound exciting(they serve you "bangles" along with the sweets they bring along with the bill).
Would surely not advice someone as a really good place but yes fine for an option.
Bon Appetite!:)
PS I forgot one thing, which really pissed me off at the very end. I asked the manager to keep my bike’s helmet somewhere, while leaving I asked it back and saw that he had actually kept it in a dustbin on which every other waiter was throwing the napkins which they gathered from the tables! I really felt a jolt of unthoughtful hospitality!