Authentic French Experience @ Le Pain Quotidien

Le pain quotidien - due to my love and knowledge for anything French - I wanted to come here but expected it to be just a try at French cuisine. What I instead found was a chain which is authentically French. I loved the food - the cheese, the bread and it reminded me of France. Even the decor of the place is very, very French - cosy, wooden and extremely connected to earth. 

The service is good. Coming down to what matters most - the food. The food was the best French I ever had in India. The tarting was full of ricotta cheese and tomato. I ordered some
Cold coffee for the hot afternoon and my hubby ordered beer. We ordered two separate dishes for main course. He ordered basil chicken with mushroom risotto. Absolutely awesome - see pictures. I ordered veg stroganoff and absolutely adored it.

 The quantity of both dishes was just right. What's more there was room for some dessert helping too for my hubby who ordered belgian chocolate brownie which I also tasted. You can refer pictures for dessert section. Extremely fruitful restaurant trip after a long time !! 

                                                                      

WEEKEND BREAKFAST@JAMJAR DINER

Jamjar diner is a place I really wanted to visit after reading all reviews and seeing pictures. It seemed quite interesting so finally decided to land up here for Sunday brunch. The place has an interesting decor and I sat reading Archie's comics after a long time which was great start to a lazy Sunday morning.

We ordered a spinach parsley pineapple juice which was very good and followed it up with "the full Monty" with cheese omelette toast potatoes bacon sausages and baked beans. Everything was good just the sausages were a bit overlooked. I ordered the spinach and mushroom crepes which were super awesome. I loved my dish!

Even the sandwiches and chilli cheese toast on other peoples tables looked sumptuous but we were too full to try anything else. We ordered the choco chip waffle just to end the perfect meal :) really will wait to come here again for brunch, I think this is my ideal place for Sunday brunch - casual and chic. 

It being decently priced and having great service adds to the overall experience.

                                  

Weekend Coffee Place- The Bagel Shop @Carter Road

I had heard a lot about this place and seen many great reviews so I was tempted to try it out. First time, we called to check if valet parking is available- and we got to know that even parking is not available like similar such restaurants in Bandra. So, we decided to sacrifice our car for coming here wondering the place better be worth it. 

We ordered one mocha frappe and one hazelnut frappe each to cool it off. The drinks were good. And we also ordered a tomato basil mozzarella pizza bagel which turned out to be good too. We had two friends joining, who had some cappucino and some scrambled egg with bagel and baked beans which was quite usual , nothing special.

I also wondered about the desserts which looked quite fresh, so I took out two- banana walnut bread and carrot philly cake for home delivery. Both desserts were ok, nothing great again.
The best part of evening was look and feel of the place, we tried sitting outside and it was good- bit humid so we moved inside and even inside it was very homely feeling. Pricing is ok, no dents in your pocket. Service needs bit of polishing, we ordered one dish which we never got and nor did we get the information if we can get the dish or not. Once we checked with them ourselves to know if we are getting something or not- we realised they cant make the dish, we ordered the cheque which was 1500 bucks for all this. 

But still due to the overall look and feel of the place and some great moments shared along with good coffee and food, this place was worth the effort put in. In lovely weather, it can be on your mind to visit.

Yum Desserts @ Haagen Dazs Bandra

I had been to the Haagen Dazs In Powai before this and did not have a great experience with the waffle. This time the experience was completely different. 

                            
The four of us  (friends) ordered special desserts - 4 different ones. Cookie crunch, royal Monte Carlo, chocolate fudge cake with coffee ice cream and a brownie with two scoops of chocolate Icecream. I tasted all four, 3 of these were exceptionally good. I was most happy with my choice of fudge cake with coffee ice cream both of which were simply delicious.

That's why they say simple pleasures in world sometimes give great pleasure :) The service is good, pricing is i think one of the most expensive compared to other such dessert places. But Haagen Dazs know people will pay that much for their ice creams. 

                        
                                 

  

Chill out @ The Den, Khar

 

 

First things first, this is a drinking place meant for chilling on weekends. They have a good drink menu but in wines, they just had 1 wine out of 12-13 imported wines listed. The selection of other alcohol was better. We ordered the Chianti region (It is located in Tuscany in Italy) red wine. 

There were 4 of us. The two guys ordered Budweiser and kingfisher ultras. The starters were best part of meal and they were really good- right from nachos to French fries, honey mustard chicken to pesto chicken and chicken basket. Chicken basket became my favorite. 

For main course we ordered two pizzas - pepper chicken and BBQ chicken. Again both turned out to be very good. Pricing for this meal of four was 8600 bucks (out of which almost 4000 bucks for the wine bottle). 

The service was very slow and staff is still learning but manager was trying to help. Loved the food, service can improve. Also liked the experience of watching the World Cup football here and music is great.