Mumbai Food: Find out how cook Ranveer Brar’s new art-and-dine opening fares

A perspective of a bar and a gallery space. PICS/BIPIN KOKATE

EGO territory artworks and a well-stocked bar radiant underneath snow-white lights welcomed us into a new art-and-dine outlet, TAG (The Amateur Gallery) located in Kamala Mills. Post a prolonged day during work, we were tempted to plonk ourselves on a discriminating wooden bar stools and feast a eyes on a quirky art over booze and cocktails. Instead, penetrating to be where all a movement was, we headed to a second turn of a duplex that houses luminary cook Ranveer Brar’s new all-vegetarian restaurant, GourmArt Kitchen.

From Japan to Jaffna
A ceiling-to-floor bookshelf with titles on food and design, and kitschy neon-hued chairs vied for a courtesy in a 20-seater brightly illuminated space, with a semi-open kitchen. However, we focused on a menu featuring usually soups, tiny plates and desserts, vacant by a accumulation of world-inspired options like Mock Duck Vindaloo, Konyakkuyaki (a Japanese travel food with Idiyapam twist), an Awadhi-style palm heart and jackfruit biryani and Charred Sri Lankan Eggplant with Jaffna spice.

Still Liquid Brie Brulee

We began with Afghan Mantu (Rs 350), a tiny image noted with an RR tab (Ranveer Recommends), that s a take on a normal beef-stuffed dumplings renouned in executive Asian cuisines. The dumplings arrived on a bed of tomato-braised lentils, surfaced with smoked yoghurt in a potion jar. Though wrapped and steamed to perfection, a paneer stuffing was somewhat chewy. However, we were soothing by spoonfuls of warm-and-cold lentils and yoghurt that caressed a ambience buds with tart, green and a spirit of lovely, smoked flavours, interjected by pleasing benevolence from a beady pomegranates that popped in a mouth.

Mushroom or meat?
While we skipped a cocktails as we found them pricey (R900 for most), we attempted Honey, Green Tea (Rs 225), a sweet-and-sour iced tea that was usually about average. Instead, we picked another RR-tagged dish, Mushroom Galawat (Rs 350). If we’d been blindfolded, we would have never guessed that a melt-in-your-mouth Lucknowi-style kebabs were done of fungus and not minced meat. So soothing that it was formidable to collect them with a fork; we mopped adult a richly spiced, umami-flavoured (a signature ambience compared with a tasty version) kebabs with crispy green mix crostinis, amidst bites of lacchha pyaaz (onion rings) dripping in buttermilk, that accompanied a dish.

Mushroom Galawat 

Brie brouhaha
Then, we systematic The ‘Still Liquid’ Brie Brulee (Rs 400), an eclectic, delectable take on a French dessert. Comprising baked brie, rose-berry biscotti and lemon pate de fruit, it incited out to be a feeling pleasure as a sharp, tainted flavours of a tawny French cheese ideally offset a zesty lemon pate (jam-like consistency) and toasted, honeyed and eccentric biscotti. Needless to say, it was a star of a meal.

Though stuffed, we couldn’t conflict 70% Dark chocolate-Beetroot-Raspberry-Sweet Fennel-Olives (Rs 300), a dessert that won us over with a earthy, bittersweet flavours of chocolate and hiss complemented by somewhat preserved beetroot and green olive — dual mixture that frequency make it to this section.

Afghan Mantu 

As we stepped out of a venue, we realised that this had been a singular all-vegetarian dish where we hadn’t missed, or even given a suspicion to grouping meat. And for that rarely satiating dining experience, we have Brar to thank.

TIME: 7 pm to 1 am (last sequence during 11.30 pm) 
AT: Kamala Mills Compound, Lower Parel. CALL 24972424 (only by reservation)

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