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Rated: Awful
Jun 02, 2008
Death of an Institution!!
God knows how many meals I've partaken of in this restaurant, which, like MTR, Chalukya, India Coffee House, Corner House, etc define the culinary heritage of the city...but I'm pretty sure now that the meal had over the past weekend is the last I'm gonna be having here!!
It's very disappointing to see Casa's..more of an institution for so many Bangaloreans than a restaurant, falling by the wayside in terms of quality...anyways, on to the meal..
We'd gone there on Saturday afternoon for a late lunch and started off with an order of French Fries and Russian Salad (veg). Most of the fries were soggy and barely warm and the salad was passable...anyways, I thought, the food's bound to be good...after all, it's Casa's!!!
We ordered a Ratatouille Eggplant Lasagna and a Godfather pizza (with the heavenly meat sauce)...they got the pizza first...which had some peculiar angles to it..seemed like a leftover pizza base being used...it was warm (decidedly not fresh off the oven) and the meat sauce tasted rather weird..like some meats just bunched together for a round in the blender before being heated and laid out on the base...I was very very disappointed considering I'd been looking forward to this for the entire week!! The lasagna arrived about 15 mins afterwards...(this was around 3 pm, when the restaurant was half full) and was more like a 'baingan ki subzi, Indian style' which'd been layered b/n sheets of lasagna and had a generous dollop of melted, grated cheese atop....we left more than half the dish uneaten!!
The saving grace though was the dessert - Marble cake with Ice cream, which was the only order that brought a smile to our faces and made me sure I was indeed @ Casa's!!...
This was actually the second time in the past month that I've had such a poor experience...had discounted the first one to an off day..but hey...you can't have an off day every other week..!!!
I would strongly recommend against going to atleast this branch of Casa's (unfortunately, this was their first..) as the owners seem to be focussing more on their upscale Casa-del-Sol and leaving this to their assuredly incompetent staff to manage...!!