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Rated: Good
based on 7 reviews
Blue Ginger
The Taj West End, 25, Race Course Road, Bangalore
66605660
| Locality | Race Course Road |
|---|---|
| Place Type | Lounge |
| Food Type | Vietnamese |
| Timings | 12:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m., 7:30 p.m. to 11:45 p.m. |
| Price |
Very Expensive
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Air conditioned
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Apr 06, 2008
Num Num Vietnam
Being the only Vietnamese restaurant in the country,the restaurant wins brownie points at the outset for sheer origiality. It also boasts of possibly the best setting in the city! Nestled in the midst
of thick foliage within the compound of The Taj WestEnd Hotel, The Blue Ginger is arguably the best restaurant in town.
It is situated away from the main building and compliments the Blue Bar which is it’s neighbour and again a very happening pub in the city.
The decor is typical of Vietnam complete with large blue urns and oriental decor. I would recommend the lunch set menu. Very good for a quick business lunch. Although the beauty of the place emerges at night when candles line the walkway to the restaurant and the water fountain around the place is in full spurt!They light a fire in the middle of the restaurant and that lends an ethereal glow to guests as well as the place itself.The neighbouring Blue Bar plays very good House music which complimets the setting of the restaurant as well.
Van, the Vietnamese hostess and now a dear friend, greets every guest with great enthusiasm and warmth - a trait that becomes the Vietnamese/Asian culture.
The staff is courteous and very clued in on the menu and immediately "get" what you would like to have. They help you through the menu to ensure you understand the various ingredients and that you don’t end up over ordering or worse yet - ordering something you wouldn’t touch with a barge pole. What I like is that the staff is attentive without being intrusive or in-your-face.
The food,as the cuisine suggests, is Vietnamese. Vietamese food has a lot of thai and chinese influence so you will recognize a lot of dishes. I particularly recommend the meat platter, the raw mango salad and the fish curry which comes with rice.
I would like to warn you though - they serve complimentary prawn and vegetable crackers when you sit down and one can easily eat the whole lot before the food arrives!
I haven’t really liked any of their desserts and we usually skip that course.
The weekends are very busy and I recommed that you make reservations. If you don’t have a reservation, you could hve a bit of a wait but they ensure you’re comfortable even there. There is an overstuffed couch upholstered in warm red and orange tones that relaxes the most irate guest....
Blue Ginger is an expensive restaurant. A meal for two which includes two main courses and noodles and a couple of glasses of wine could set you back by about 2500 per head. Hey. believe me - it’s worth every rupee.
I would highly recommend this restaurant. For it’s ambiance,food,staff and originality.
Jan 15, 2008
Too Expensive For Vietnamese But Nice
If you are thinking that Vietnamese in Bangalore would be cheap because most other things in India are cheap? Well think again.
I am accustomed to spending about Rs.280 for a dosa back home in Australia. However since we have a large Vietnamese community in Australia, we don't pay as much for the food you get in Blue Ginger.
So quite frankly, I don't see a problem with paying an exorbattant price for Vietnamese in a country where the Vietnamese population is either small or non existant.
Anyway, back to the topic of this restaurant, I found the food to be nice, the waiter service attentive like any other place I have been to in Bangalore and the ambience will make you feel like you're in another country. So if you want tasty and hygenic food and an experience without paying for a plane ticket to Vietnam, go to Blue Ginger.
I hope this type of food will take over the rotten Indian Chinese that is common in India and I hope it will bring the prices down once the demand is there.
Aug 12, 2007
Beautiful Ambience
Beautiful Place, Delicious Food, Fantastic Service.....BUT! Vietnamese?
Mar 20, 2007
Poor value for money
Our experience left us quite shocked at what Rs 2000+ will fetch you these days in Bangalore. The food was displayed and served with a lot of fanfare in a pretty outdoor seating environment, but the service was quite terrible. The food itself was decent, but certainly nothing you couldn't pick up at for less than $20 in a self respecting Vietnamese rest on the other side of the Pacific (unfortunately, my points of calibration for Vietnamese food are not in Vietnam, but in the United States).
Most upsetting was the fact that the staff, initially friendly and prompt, decided completely ignore us once a bunch of celebrities showed up a few tables away.
Oh yes, the Sangria had as much alcohol as there is snowfall in Chennai.
Overall, not recommended.
Jan 24, 2007
Not really Vietnamese - and pricey
I went to this place courtesy of a well known multinational whose products you are probably using to read this, unfortunately. Anyway, the ambiance is very nice - and even though it is open air there are no mosquitoes - the've probably been priced out.
Service is a bit pushy - we were a large group and they essentially forced us to take the Prie Fixe menu - which was around 2500 per person, even though not all of us were that keen on it.
The most disappointing thing was most of the food was not really Vietnamese. The salad was good - but Thai, and the rest was mediocre Chinese.
The price is also quite ridiculous. For the meal, it was roughly Rs 4000 per head which included a little bit,but not too much, wine.
Which is about $100 - for which one can have a really excellent meal in many Michelin three star restaurants.
Its a nice place - but go there only when someone else is paying.
This is representative of a larger problem which exists in Bangalore - places are in short supply and so a nice place can charge the earth and get away with it without really giving one ones moneys worth.
Maybe in a few years things will improve.