Nando's

Nando's near Flinders Station

Here I introduce you to the King of spicy chicken in Australia . I proudly announce the award to NANDO's .Nando's is famous for its Portugese style flame grilled peri - peri chicken.

Nando's near Flinder Station Melbourne

WHAT BRINGS ME HERE :-

Cuisine :                  Portugese
Timings :                 11:00 a.m to 10:00 p.m
Bar Option :            Not Available
Vegetarian Option : Available
Take Away :           Available
Outside Dining       : Available at Outlet in Punthill Hotel

Nando's in Puntill Hotel 

HOW TO REACH HERE : Nandoo's has several outlets . I tried in 2 of them , 1 near Finders Station and one near Chadstone Shopping centre . It tastes exactly the same .Just click the links below for a better idea on directions :-
Nandoo's near Flinders Street 
Searching this outlet gives a different result in Google Maps . Please search by below mentioned address .
Address : 166 Flinders Street, Melbourne, Victoria
Phone: 03 9654 9399
Nandoo's near Chadstone shopping complex
It is in the ground floor of Punthill Hotels . It is on the cross-section of  Dandenong  and Warrigal Road .
Click the link alongside to check out your nearest Nandoo's Outlet .

BBQ Peri Peri Chicken

HOW MUCH WOULD IT COST : It seems to be an average restaurant in terms of budget .Meal for one person would cost around 14 AUD - 20 AUD .
1/2 BBQ chicken - 10.95 AUD
Dinner rolls - 0.95 AUD / each
Pequeno Mini Burger - 4.95 AUD
Mini Coke(390 ml) - 3.10 AUD
Please click the link along side to have a look at the Generic Menu of Nando's

Pepqueno Mini Burger

HOW IS THE DINING EXERIENCE : Overall dining experience was outstanding .
I love spicy food . For this reason , I liked it above all other restaurants .
The table placement was average in Flinders Street Outlet , but the Puntill Hotel Outlet is really nice
BBQ Chicken - The BBQ chicken is something which you should not miss at all . The chicken is served with peri-peri sauce which makes it really tasty .
Dinner Rolls - The rolls are little harder . Since hardness is same at both the outlets , i expect it to be prepared that way .
Pequeno Mini Burger - Its like a filler to complete your meal . 1 piece of BBQ chicken along with some vegetables and peri-peri sauce .Though pretty ordinary in preparation but tastes really good .

RATE THE RESTAURANT OUT OF 10 in Food : 9

RATE THE RESTAURANT OUT OF 10 in Ambiance(Flinders Street Outlet) : 5

RATE THE RESTAURANT OUT OF 10 in Ambiance(Punthill Hotel Outlet) : 7

RATE THE RESTAURANT OUT OF 10 in Overall Experience : 7

Flora Restaurant and Bar

Flora is an Indian Restaurant and houses a Licensed Bar as well  . It was introduced to me by a family friend even before I landed  Melbourne . Since then i was determined to visit and review it.

WHAT BRINGS ME HERE :
Cusine :              North Indian , South Indian
Timings :             Sun 10a.m to 10. pm , Mon- Fri : 10 a.m to 11 p.m
Bar :                            Available
Vegetarian Option :  Available
Take Away :               Available 

HOW TO REACH HERE : Flora is in the heart of the City of Melbourne . It is right opposite to the "Flinder Station" .If you walk in the direction of Melbourne Aquarium after coming out of Flinder Station , you would find the restaurant on the right hand side just 50 steps away .For better directions follow below mentioned link : Find Flora Restaurant On Google Maps
Phone : +61 9663-1212

HOW MUCH WOULD IT COST : I would consider this restaurants in category of Budget Restaurants .
Snacks Items such as Chats were in the range of  : 5AUD - 9AUD
Main Course was in the range of : 8 AUD - 14 AUD .
Deserts were in the range of : 3 AUD - 7 AUD

HOW ABOUT THE AMBIANCE : I would say ambiance is pretty average .However the table placing is quite well . Being close to each other , they do not seem to be conjusted .Bar is also pretty average .

HOW IS THE DINING EXPERIENCE : It fully met my expectations on a higher side .
1)We took 1 plate Samosa Chat : 5 AUD .
Quantity was good .Taste was awesome .
It has 2 scrambled potato samosa with accurate quantities of Curd ,Chutneys or Sauces
2) 1 Plate Papdi Chat : 5 AUD
Quantity was good . Taste was awesome .
3) 1 Plate Vegetable Small Curry : 10.50 AUD .
Quantity was good and enough for 1 person with average apetite. Taste was also good .
It has 1 Dal(lentil) , 1 Paneer and pumpkin curry along with 2 Roti(Indian Bread made in Mud Oven) .


RATE THE RESTAURANT OUT OF 10 in Food : 7
RATE THE RESTAURANT OUT OF 10 in Ambience : 5.5
RATE THE RESTAURANT OUT OF 10 in Overall Experience : 7

Punj-aab - Cuisine From Land Of Five Rivers

PUNJ-AAB - A new restaurant in Town which offers Cuisine from the Basin Of Five Rivers . The restaurants offers authentic "North Western " Cuisine .

HOW TO REACH THERE : The Restaurant houses on the ground floor of RMZ Infinity on the OLD Madras Road .While coming from Ulsoor towards KR Puram you will find a Big Bazar on the Old Madras Road . RMZ Infinity is just Opposite to Big Bazaar .

PHONE NUMBER : +(91)-80-66491235

ADDRESS  : Rmz Infinity, Opp. Big Bazar, 3, Old Madras Road, Old Madras Road, Bangalore - 560016


HOW MUCH WOULD IT COST :-

Buffet Lunch Costs Rs. 300 + Taxes per head on Friday , Saturday , Sunday
and 250 + Taxes per head from Mon-Thurs .

HOW WAS THE FOOD : Food was excellent .You may glance at the Overall Menu for the Buffet The Menu changes every day , but the variety is almost similar :-

DRINKS : Restaurant has a good Bar . Though I have not checked the Rates , but rates seems to be pretty descent . A standup table advertisement displays :-

1 beer pint + 1 Plate Kababs was around Rs. 300 .

STARTERS : It had 4 starters 2 non-veg and 2 veg .

Non- veg Starters Include : Fish Pakoda , Tandoori Malai Chicken which was Excellent .

Veg Starters Include : Vegetable Kabab , Paneer Tikka - which was also authentic Punjabi Style .

SALAD BAR : Like all other Buffet , this one also has Wide Variety Of Salads .Salads are generally good and so i didnot find anything special in its Salad bar .

FOOD : Main Course is placed along with the Starters .Though they have limited quantity of Main Course Dishes . They have about 8 dishes in Main Course,and I must say all dishes were awsome especially Mutton Roganjosh .

BREADS : I could only recall 2 varities , normal Wheat Roti and Nan .

They serve breads on Table .

RICE : There were 4 preperations of Rice .

DESERTS : Deserts were also tasty . It had Rasagulla , Watermelon , Halwa , Ice creams , Mouses and Pasteries .The green Rasagulla is something you should not miss at all .

HOW WAS THE OVERALL EXPERIENCE : My past experiences with Buffet is not that good , so I always prefer Alacart.But Punj-aab has proved me wrong .If you compare the Price - Food - Ambience - Service , i think this is the Best Buffet Restaurant Of Bangalore for People who like Punjabi Cuisine.

A nice place to treat family and friends .In true sense "Value For Money" .

RATE THE RESTAURANT OUT OF 10 in Food : 8

RATE THE RESTAURANT OUT OF 10 in Ambience : 6.5

RATE THE RESTAURANT OUT OF 10 in Overall Experience : 7.5

COCOA-NUT

Street Restaurant

Thai cuisine is known for being spicy. Thai food is known for its balance of the five fundamental taste senses in each dish or the overall meal: hot (spicy), sour, sweet, salty, and (optional) bitter . Cocoa-nut is a street restaurant on Bangla Road (Phuket) . It was bright , colorful , clean , and the most important part was Service . Service was Zuper .

Though there was very less time to explore restaurants in Phuket since all our day packages were booked along with complementary Lunch . However , I was left with only Dinner to serve my apetite  to explore .

After completing our City Tour , which was very well organised we came out for Dinner . I wanted to eat Vegetarian that day and hence arrived at COCOA-NUT .

Fied Rice With Chilli Sauce

HOW TO REACH THERE : The restaurant is on Bangla Road , which is the most happening place of Phuket .
We came out of resort "Deewaana Patong Resort" and walked about 200 m . The street restaurants spans for about 2 km . One among them was COCOA-NUT .

HOW MUCH WOULD IT COST - Street restaurants are quite fairly priced . They are not at all costly .
I think our first day Dinner would have come around 175 -200 baht for both of us .Being hygiene conscious We took only 2 vegetarian dishes the first day .

1) Fried Rice with Chilli Sauce - 59 baht
2) Stir Fried Morning Gloride (which mean Rice Covered with Vegetables) - 100 baht 
3) Coke 

Stir Fried Morning Gloride

Rest of the days we took a variety of dishes , but I forgot the cost factor for the same .

HOW ABOUT THE OVERALL EXPERIENCE :-


I am a big Foodie . I and my wife liked most of the Thai Food we had during our stay :-
First day Dinner was chosen very carefully .We didnot wanted to be disappointed with the Thai Food and Hence I tried ordering those dishes , which has very less margin of Going Wrong . In that sense I fully met my Expectations .Chili Sauce, which we got with the Fried Rice  was awesome .
Even the other Dish - Stir Fried Morning Gloride was very nice .

Second Day Dinner was quite experimental :-
We first had a look on all sort of Sea Food available and then we finalized 
Chicken Soup - which was good in taste and Jumbo in Quantity .
Barbecued  Tiger Prawns  - which I must say were awesome 

Shells Curry - We were suppose to take out the Worms from the shells and Eat them .I found the dish interesting but quite average . However my wife found it tasty .

Third Day Dinner was also quite interesting - 
We had stuffed our stomachs in our resort ,in the evening after returning form James Bond Island . When we went for some shopping at night , our stomachs were tight . While returning we felt little space in our stomach .To our surprise , after buying some beverages we found "Make Your Own Burger" in the General Food Store.They have kept 1 Chicken Salami and Unlimited Veggies for the same .We packed 2 Burgers and came to our Resort .

RATE THE RESTAURANT OUT OF 10 in Food : 7.5
RATE THE RESTAURANT OUT OF 10 in Ambience : 2
RATE THE RESTAURANT OUT OF 10 in Overall Experience : 7 

Mint Flower

Hotel Mintflower in Sultan Bathery Waynad has a In-house Restaurant . I feel it is the best restaurant of Sultan Bathery .

HOW TO REACH THERE - The Restaurant is on Main Highway will leads to Kallepetta .

ADDRESS : Chungam,Mysore Road, Sulthan Bathery,Wayanad Kerala-673592
Phone : PHONE : 04936 227179, 227181, 227182 , 09447218346

HOW MUCH WOULD IT COST - Our bill came around Rs 520 for 5 of us .
Take a Look at the Menu from the Pics .
1) Paneer Butter Masala - Rs.110 .
2) Butter Chicken - Rs. 110 .
3) Fish Fry - Rs. 100 .
4) Nan - Rs. 12 / piece
5) Butter Nan - Rs. 22 / piece
6) Sweet Lime SOda

HOW MUCH TIME WOULD IT TAKE FROM MUTHANGA WILDLIFE SANCTUARY - The plcae is about 20 km from muthanga wildlife sanctuary .I didnot took us more than 35 minutes to reach this place from Muthanga Wildlife sanctuary .There is a toll chungi in between which might create some 10 - 15 min delay .

HOW WAS THE OVERALL EXPERIENCE : The overall experience was good . I made a choice of eating out because we were not impressed with the starters we ordered in our Hotel - Issac Regency .
The Restaurant of hotel Issac Regency was almost Full that day .The staff told us that they cannot manage Alacart ,and only Buffet Dinner is available .

Hotel Mint Flower was just 2-3 km from our Hotel Issac Regency . The in-house restaurant seems to be up-market retaurant for people of Sultan Bathery . Good one to go with the Family .They had seperate Halls , one with AC and the other without AC .Sitting arrangement was quite good .

Fish Fry was best amongst the Lot .I remember other dishes were equaly good .Sweet Lime Soda was quite good . Over all experience was quite satisfying .

RATE THE RESTAURANT OUT OF 10 in Food  : 5
RATE THE RESTAURANT OUT OF 10 in Ambience : 4
RATE THE RESTAURANT OUT OF 10 in Overall Experience : 4.5

If I have to rate this restaurant according to the City Sultan Bathery :-

RATE THE RESTAURANT OUT OF 10 in Food  : 9
RATE THE RESTAURANT OUT OF 10 in Ambience : 8
RATE THE RESTAURANT OUT OF 10 in Overall Experience : 8.5

Saffron - A Legend Of Mughlai Cuisine

                    
                            Saffron as the name suggests claims itself to be one of the Best in Mughlai Cuisine .

HOW TO REACH THERE : Take a left from the Sony World Signal - 100 ft road . The road would lead towards Kormangala 4th Block .Now keep straight till the 2nd Signal on that road .Take Left towards
Kormangala 1st Block from the second signal  .Continue further on that road you will see Saffron on the Left Hand Side .

Address : No.5 1st Floor , 1st B Main , 1st Block , , Jakkasandra , Koramangala , Bangalore - 560034 .
Phone Number : 41317579 , 9342013690 .

HOW MUCH WOULD IT COST : A three course meal would cost around 275 per head .
I found its pricing on a little higher side .
1) Cost of Veg Curries ranges from   Rs. 95-  Rs.139 for Full Plate
2) Cost  of Non-Veg Curries ranges from  Rs.125- Rs.170 for potion , Rs. 195 -  Rs.280 for Half Chicken dishes and Rs.370 - Rs.450 for full chicken dishes .
3) Cost of (non-alcoholic)drinks varies from  Rs.30 - Rs.60
4) Cost of Bread ranges from  Rs. 10 - Rs.55
5) Cost of snacks ranges from Rs. 75 - rs. 120

HOW WAS THE FOOD : I would rate the food , just ahead of Average .I started off with the main course .

DRINKS :

Jal Jeera - was very nice . 

It cost us Rs. 30 / cup 

FOOD :

Handi Chicken : I ordered 1 portion of Handi Chicken . The preparation was average .There were about 3 pieces good enough for both of us .
It cost us Rs. 125 .

BREADS :
Tandoori Roti . Roti's were crisp .
It cost us Rs. 20 / Roti

DESSERT :
Carrot Halwa with Ice-cream . Carrot halwa preparation was average  .
It cost us Rs. 79 .

HOW WAS THE OVERALL EXPERIENCE : The overall experience was average . I had very high hopes
with the Restaurant .Saffron didn't met my expectations . If you compare the Ambiance , Food , Service the rate are very high . Also the service is slow . I went on a weekend at around 3.30 p.m .the sitting arrangement was good with the tables evenly placed .I expected a high quality of  Table Covers .The food was average .
One good this about the restaurant is the variety in the Menu . It has a huge menu options . If the prices would have been less , i would have easily rated the restaurant as good  .It offers Buffet also which is prised at Rs. 250 .

RATE THE RESTAURANT OUT Of 10 in Food : 6
RATE THE RESTAURANT OUT Of 10 in Ambiance : 5
RATE THE RESTAURANT OUT OF 10 in Overall Experience : 5.5

Buffet @ Radha Homtel

Radha Homtel is a 3 - Star Hotel . It houses a good restaurant which offers Buffet Lunch  .
Our plan commenced because of bad food in our office on Thursday .

HOW TO REACH THERE : The Hotel is just in front of SAP Labs India Pvt. Ltd.  Whitefield .

Address :-

Radha Homtel
Whitefield, 136, / 137, EPIP Industrial Area, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560066Phone Number : 080 66226969‎ – 09980106969‎ – 080 66226767‎ (Fax) – 09980006969‎ (Mobile)

HOW MUCH WOULD  IT COST : Around 350 Per Person .The Buffet Lunch came around Rs. 1449.00 for 4 of us .

HOW IS THE OVERALL EXPERIENCE :The overall experience was good after leaving the Restaurant , but definitely it did not started off well . We were asked to wait when we asked for a table for four . After 15 min , I got little agitated and sat inside the Restaurant . The sitting arrangement is descent .
DRINKS : There were 2 varities of Soups -> 1 Non- Veg , 1 Vegetarian I took vegetarian soup , which was good .There were 2 varities of soft Drinks ->  Ice Tea , LemonadeFOOD : Food was presented well in different sections .1) Salads - There were about 4 varities of Salad Preperations apart from 4 varities of freshly Cut Vegetables . What I missed was Non-Veg salad .2) Starters - I could find only 1 veg starter and 1 Non veg Starter .I took Veg starter which was good .3) Main Course - It has a about 5 varities of Vegetable Curries and 4 varities of Non - Veg Dishes .I found all dishes good .If I compare the Buffet Cost , I expected more variety .There was no Live Counter .

4) BREADS : Soup Breads -> There were 4 varities of Soup Breads .

Main Course Breads -> Apart from soup breads Kulcha , Wheat Roti , Nan were available with the main Course .

                                    

5) DESERT : Desert were docked at a seperate place . It had Gulab jamun , Kheer(Pyasum) , Fresh Fruits , Mooses , Pastries .It has a seperate refrigirator for ice-creams .There were 4 varities of Ice- creams available .

                                     

RATE THE RESTAURANT OUT OF 10 in Ambience : 5RATE THE RESTAURANT OUT OF 10 in Food : 7RATE THE RESTAURANT OUT OF 10 in Overall Experience : 6