My First Pub @ GurgaonPublished : 02/19/2009 by Ravi
Well, after staying here at Gurgaon, for more than three months, it was
about time I had been to a pub. And today (technically yesterday, it's
4:23 AM right now - hehe), the pub-visiting happened dhoke se.
We were planning to go eat 'something different' and then probably go
out for a movie. I suggested a Thai joint at JMD Towers (I used to have
my office there earlier). So all of us went to the Thai restaurant only
to later realize that it was a pub!
We arrived there at around
8:30 PM - which is rather early for the 'pubbing circuit'. Just a
couple of people around. And yeah - HAPPY HOURS till 9:30 PM.
I
wasn't in the mood for having a drink (we had one helluvan EVS party
last night!) so ordered a mocktail called 'Mystery'. As part of the
'happy deal' I got another Mystery free. The drink was okay, some
orange based concoction which was nothing to die for.
The
non-veggies (moi included), then ordered Lamb in Mankan Sauce (or some
similar sounding sauce) with steamed rice. Now, if you're planning to
order the same thing, I have a word of advice for you - DONT! You don't
want to spend 250 odd bucks only to get mutton (not lamb, mind you)
cooked with potatoes in a gravy full of oil. I'm sure you order something from the road-side dhaba and they're gonna come up with something similar... probably better! The dish tasted more like "Mutton Curry Masaala - cooked in 1 Litre of oil I got free from Big Bazaar yesterday!"
Anyways,
as for the veggies, they were better off with "Vegetables in Thai
Curry" - the standard coconut based white curry. It was the regular
Thai stuff.
We left at about 9:30 cuz none of us were in the
mood to drink or hang around (thanks to the EVS party the day
before!)... but I guess 9:30 or 10:00 is just about the right time to
go there... they had just started with Pink Floyd and the place was
getting more crowded...
No take on the music, cuz till the time we were there they were playing the standard soft rock stuff... nothing noteworty!
Overall,
not a very good experience... food was bad and overpriced. The ambience
was nothing great - no central theme. Probably we should've gone later
in the night - so that we would've ended up concentrating more on the
girls rather than the food, drinks, and ambience :-D
Source Foodieforlife
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