Konark Restaurant

Aug 20, 2007

Finally! A good joint on Comm street.

When you’re out shopping, you tend to use lunchtime as a good break to rest your walk-weary legs and bag-handling hands and more importantly … re-fuel your self.

Commercial Street and the adjoining streets are a hub for shopping activity with hundreds of shops and people but few food joints. Only in the past one or two years have we had some activity in that respect. There’s a coffee day, a sandwich place [can’t get the name], good old Woody’s, some sweetmeat shops and a few odd Darshinis in bylanes.

Then someone got serious and started Konark Restaurant almost midway in Comm street. I’m not sure if this restaurant is related to the famous one near St. Josephs. What I’m sure about is, that this is the de-facto lunch place if we shop in the vicinity. Woody’s was the only place we could get to earlier, where there is a variety of food and enough space but is really boring when it comes to taste or ambience.

Konark is pure vegetarian and offers regular Indian food. Kulcha, Roti, Naan, Paneer Butter Masala, Chana Masala, Chola Bhatura … you can almost see what I’m driving at. The menu card had all the regular stuff any ‘Sagar’ worth it’s salt would have. But unbelievably, they still manages to be different.

It starts from the décor which is contemporary. Furniture and elements have chocolate wood finish. Even the lift. Unlike the over-jazzed, heavily glassed monstrosities you find at similar restaurants this one scores on simple but smart décor. This gives it an up-market look. (It is on the second floor anyway!)

The waiters are smartly dressed in their blinding post-it yellow colored uniforms. The service is crisp. The dishes taste different and the evening snacks esp. the venerable chaat family, are good. Nothing oozes with oil, which is a welcome relief.

They do not beat specialists like Grameen on authenticity or Karthik Sweets for their expertise on Chaats, but even then they’re like the rising sun on this bustling street.

I’ve been here more than 8 times in the past 4 months. Apart from the fact that I’ve been shopping too much it also shows that these guys are consistently good and I’m glad they’re around.

That’s my Odissi about this Konark :)

peace.
HD

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