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Mumbai Food: Why this Lower Parel grill fails to impress
- Updated: January 5, 2017
The interiors are flattering bare, with usually a handful of knick-knacks gracing one wall. pic/shraddha uchil
Meet John. John is an accountant. He watches a same TV uncover any day, owns 7 white shirts – one for any day of a week – and has 0 hobbies. That’s tedious ol’ John for you. And if John were a restaurant, he would be called Summer House Cafe.
With a launch in Mumbai, this Delhi child seems to be relying on sketch crowds by trait of being “the same place where Coldplay played an unpretentious gig behind in 2015.” And while – as we hear – it is a illusory place to revisit on gig nights, as distant as a unchanging day goes, a space doesn’t even try to yield above average.
The Popcorn Shrimp is crunchy and best interconnected with a potion of cold beer
Brick or treat
The opening corridor is embellished in pleasing patterned tiles, though that’s where a feeling of astonishment ends.
Inside, a unprotected section walls and equipment lend a cavernous space a nude down, industrial vibe. The usually ambience is in a form of a handful of knick-knacks like a cuckoo time and a selected steel fan placed on shelves backing one wall.
Sure, we could assume that a space was aiming to be organic and zero more, in sequence to concentration on a music. And, for their sake, we wish that’s a case.
Unfortunately for us, a night we visit, a theatre area wears a unequaled look, and usually 4 tables are occupied. We settle down on one of a four-seater tables and are handed copies of a menu. We collect a drinks while singing along to a familiar 2009 Pop strike Empire State of Mind.
The Thai Veg Curry comes tighten to a normal immature curry found in Thailand
Currying favour
Although it takes around 15 mins for a drinks to arrive, we utterly suffer a Coconut Mojito with a Twist (Rs 425), that reminds us of a piña colada, reduction a pineapple. However, a second cocktail – a Raspberry Mai Tai Slush (Rs 400) – while reasonably slushy, is high on a hiss puree and low on rum.
As we peruse a food menu, we appreciate a stars that we aren’t vegetarian. The menu is noticeably meat-heavy, and offers a singular preference of dishes for those who adore their veggies. Secondly, a menu, nonetheless vast, is – and we hatred to contend this – boring, and distractingly so. After staring during it for a good 10 minutes, we settle on 5 dishes.
BBQ Cottage Cheese Fingers.
Although served with a forgettable mayonnaise dip, a Popcorn Shrimp (Rs 474) creates for good chakna with a beer, though that’s about it. After all, it’s tough to go wrong with crispy, batter-fried shrimps. Meanwhile, a BBQ Cottage Cheese Fingers (Rs 265) is also crunchy, nonetheless abandoned of personality, done usually somewhat improved by a dip.
The Veg Thai Curry (Rs 395) wins a opinion for being closest to a authentic immature curry we attempted in Thailand – light, spicy, and not doused in coconut milk. However, we feel cheated by a Bacon Jam, Cheese and Jalapeño Cuban Pressed Sandwich (Rs 345), that uses dry candied bacon instead of a sticky, smoky-sweet jam it promises. The final plate – Butterflied Chicken Breast with Mushroom and Peppercorn Sauce (Rs 445) – is miserly on a salsa and is nonetheless another plate you’d find improved versions of during any normal Continental grill in SoBo.
The Raspberry Mai Tai Slush is cloyingly honeyed and masks a ambience of any rum benefaction in a drink
To go or not to go?
When there isn’t a gig, Summer House Cafe is officious dull. Moreover, a use is delayed even on days when a place isn’t entirely occupied. In a community where any other corner screams personality, this tasteless investiture will have to try harder to carve a niche for itself.
At: Mathuradas Mill Compound, Lower Parel.
Time: 11 am to 1 am
Log on to: summerhousecafe.co.in
Call: 291890605
Summer residence cafeteria didn’t know we were there. The Guide reviews anonymously and pays for meals.
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