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Restaurant in Churchgate
Rated: Average
based on 4 reviews
Pearl of the Orient
The Ambassador Hotel, VN Road, Churchgate, Mumbai
22041131
| Locality | Churchgate |
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| Place Type | Restaurant |
| Food Type | Chinese, Japanese, Thai |
| Timings | 12:30 PM to 3:00 PM, 7:30 PM to 11:45 PM |
| Price |
  Expensive
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first reviewed by Santa
- User Reviews (4)
Sep 14, 2008
Its only the view....
Well, I've been planning to go here for the longest time, hoping the place would be nice and all. Heck, took out the office crew there for a pre-conference dinner sorts, and it turned out it really was worth the view. Its a heady feeling seeing the place go round and we put the visitors on the side facing the glass so that they could look out over Mumbai and enjoy the skyline.
You will notice, though, I haven't talked about the food at all. Because, it was not one bit worthy of being talked about. The Kimchi Salad, which is something I would have expected to be of high calibre (its one of the basics of Oriental cuisine) turned out to be too sweet. We were largely a Vegetarian bunch, and hence we called for lots of Paneer specialities and some others and the Rice and Noodles. Trust me, in the 2-3 kinds of 'specialities' they had, i could not figure out the difference at all amongst any of them!
I guess the best part of the meal was desserts... plain good ol "Date Pan Cakes with Ice Cream". that was the safest of the lot, and worth the money.
However, its a different story that most people who had dinner last night had upset tummies the next morning... Must have been the food, you see!!!
May 12, 2008
Fantastic view with OK food
The view from this revolving restaurant is just fantastic. It completes one round in about an hour, so you get a good view while you enjoy your food and drinks.
The so called Chinese Food is not so great. Now we have so many good joints serving better oriental food. Even the Waiters are not so familiar with the sugestions.
My Firang friends enjoyed the view of Marine Drive in the evening a lot!
Dec 04, 2007
journey; food-wise and sight-wise
A Diwali nite conjoined with my birthday called for a sequence of celebrations, and hence the urge to splurge to ensure a celestial journey traversing through the aromas of the oriental land and overlooking the grandeur that a diwali-lit marine promenade reflects!
We stepped into this revolving restaurant for dinner and did revel in the ambience it seemed to portray. Views of the Queens necklace (marine drive), brabourne stadium on one side, wankhede stadium on the other, the rajabhai towers, the mumbai university provided the perfect 'effortless-visually appealing-mumbai-trip' that one can ask for.
Cocktails were priced at Rs. 500/- a piece, whiskey at Rs. 350/- a large peg.
For starters, we ordered a prawn dish, a chicken dish, and a paneer dish. Somehow, the paneer outclassed all of them. Each was priced around Rs. 450-550/- a dish.
Main course comprised pot rice, fried rice, a paneer gravy, a chicken gravy, each priced at Rs. 600/- a dish.
And the high-point was their complimentary chocolate cake; one of the better ones around!! to rope in the birthday at midnight...cheers to that!!! :D
the festivities made my experience all the more spirited and fun. Dent caused: Rs. 7800/-...well worth it :)
May 13, 2007
Spin right past this place
The revolving restaurant idea is cool (not like the CN tower cool or anything) and gives good views of downtown Mumbai. Its really the only reason for coming here.
Service is slow and then overly fussy ( silver service does not equal good service), drinks and menus took an age to come. Menus are long and too complicated with Japanese, thai and various varieties of Chinese cuisine. Unless you know your way around the sorts of food on offer it would be difficult to put a good menu together. Not that in the end that it would really matter. It was difficult to distinguish between the bland dishes apart from the colour and the degree of spice. There was no subtlty of flavour, no textures to challenge your tastebuds, no attempt at authenticity or creativity. even the fried rice lacked oomph.
Needless to say we passed on desert.