Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Dum Pukht, ITC Maurya Sheraton

5 people, Drinks : 2 bottles of red wine (don't remember the name), 2 vodkas (skyy, romanov), 1 beer (fosters's), bacardi and a couple of others; Kebabs - Jhinga (prawns), chicken and kakori; Main course - chicken bemisaal, pomegranate chops, dal makhni, mutton biryani, rotis/nan. Bill Rs. 17,613 ! (Since in this case a total amount won't suffice, the break-up is as follows - Food about 6-7k, drinks 2-3k, wine about 5k, tax remainder, Thanks to Ashwani for the break-up).Value for money: SO TOTALLY NOT (Manyu has some excellent comments on the topic here.)

Went there with my office colleagues for a team dinner (which is why I didn't have to pay thankfully). Easily the most over-rated and over-priced restaurant in Delhi (e.g. Kebabs are Rs 850, probably Bukhara is more expensive, but will have to wait and see if it is overpriced too). The Pomegranate chops were really good and the prawn kebabs were quite awesome. Some of my friends liked the kakori kebabs for the finely minced meat, however, personally I think they were quite ordinary. Other than that everything else was sub-standard fare.
Menu: Have an extensive (and expensive) wine list. Food - Indian with some niche dishes (atleast a lot of names sound pretty unique), runs into 5-6 pages - one page dedicated to awadhi and rajsi preparations.
Ambience: Well-lit, tables are large so you dont need to elbow each other while eating, nor move stuff to keep the dishes(although that advantage was taken away by the sheer clutter of plates, glasses and unnecessary cutlery on the table), overall pleasant. the pianist was REALLY loud, and when I asked the waiter if it could not be turned down/stopped, I was curtly told that the best pianist in India Brian Silas was playing.
Service. Bad. Wonder if that was because King Abdullah was also eating at Dum Pukht on the same day, but bad. Took forever for the food to arrive, and more than once when I was looking around for a waiter, they would look me in the eye and ignore me (I am not that ugly, wasn't dressed in rags, plus we had two brits in the group)! Although once the food arrived, we were served well.
Never again.

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