Sadichha - Yum Yum

Apologies for the delay. Especially to the backless one. Been a bit caught up. Bandra East has some very awesome restaurants. You have Highway Gomantak which is still incredibly good after all these years but is now pricey, Rice Boat where the food is good but the service takes as much time as getting it from Kerala and then you have Sadiccha. This non descript eatery near the MIG club is very good fish wise. The bombils are awesomely crunchy, the pomfrets are fresh and juicy. The Bangda is outstanding. That plus a mean custard makes it very complete food wise. One downer though the mutton is average but the clams are superb. Highly recommended.

Incidentally would suggest sitting on the claustrophobic ground floor as the service is faster. Go early at lunch time to avoid waiting.

 

Global Fusion - Buffet

I tend to be highly skeptical of restaurants called Global Fusion. They typically end up being a supremely average mish mash of stuff in which the Indian food is the best. By Indian I mean Indian Chinese, Indian Italian and Indian any other cuisine you can think of. The second problem I had was that Global Fusion basically does Chinese, Japanese and the token Thai. So call it Asian Fusion dammit and not mislead me by saying Global Fusion. Me for truth in Brand names. 

Anyway after this complete rant I must admit that Global Fusion is really very good value. The buffet on weekends for dinner is under a grand per person and in that you get unlimited Sushi (Really very good sashimi, Maki rolls as well as some extremely fresh Unagi), really good steamed dimsums as well as some awesome Tempura. Their dumpling soup was the best I've had in the city. Its so delicately flavoured that it just works!!. In addition to this you get some very good main courses. The prawns were large and delicious, the crab legs (Yes crabs in a buffet) were good and the desserts were a very decent enough assortment. The steamed garoupa is also extremely worthy as well as the other fishy stuff

What did not work though was the steamed buns (Good but not as good as the rest of the stuff). All in all a very good experience. My fear is that either prices will be hiked or the place will go out of business. Global fusion is in the same mall as Croma in Bandra and the same lane as !!shudder!! KFC.

Drive a Stake through this house

To celebrate MG's birthday we ordered in food from a place called Steak House in Bandra. We should have been warned by the fact that the take away menu had precisely 3 or so steaks on it. There was a Lambsteak, Fish steak and the frigging Paneer steak. Granted this was take away but where is the massive side or even a plain decent steak. Anyway having ignored such blatant warning signs we ordered a melange of lamb chops, roast lamb, biryani, mutton masala and surmai tawa. The food was of a uniform standard if the standard aimed for was disappointing. As my friend Sandy put it people just put masala and mutton and call it Malwani. The only thing worthwhile from this entire misadventure was the Low Carb chicken salad (which incidentally came up on the bill Low Crab chicken and caused some confusion) and the Garlic Bread. And considering a average price of 200 bucks per dish it was by no means cheap. Incidentally a couple of reviews inform me that Steak is available in the restaurent but no clarity of why not on the menu.

Pot full of Pourri

Pot Pourri at Bandra is sort of like the place we never go to because everyone raves about it. Anyway finally did go there and the food frankly was decent. The Chicken wings were done very well (Actual chicken wings mind you not the bloody excuses u get elsewhere). The Salads were nice (Zucchini actually did taste good) and the mashed potato was just done so right. The beef was so so and I believe the beef burger was also good since all I got was the bread. The patty was consumed by a unnamed friend of mine. The Goulash was not as gruesome as it could have been and the lamb was ok. Uncannily enough the sauces were good enough to mask any deficiencies so wonder if Underneath the Banyan Tree learnt from Pot Pourri or the otherway around ? The desserts at Underneath The Banyan Tree were way better. I wonder why all the desserts at Pot Pourri were so chocolate based ????