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Rated: Good
based on 2 reviews
Olive Beach
16 Wood Street, Ashoknagar, Bangalore
41128400, 41239483
| Locality | Ashoknagar |
|---|---|
| Place Type | Restaurant, Bar |
| Food Type | Western |
| Timings | 11:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. |
| Price |
Expensive
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Credit cards accepted
Air conditioned
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Apr 14, 2008
Best Sunday Lunch ever...?
I find this really strange, that on a website where reviewers are saying how over-priced some restaurants are because they charge Rs1200 for a meal and drinks you can also find reviews on Rs2000 Sunday lunches, and people seem so happy to pay this... but if you are going to pay that much for your lunch, make it worthwhile!
I've had Sunday lunches at a couple of the hotels and while nice it tended to be a bit 'samey', and some of these places are a bit, well, lacking in atmosphere? So when we went to Olive Beach and I saw that they had a buffet, my first thought was "oh well, more of the same". I couldn't have been more wrong. Yes it was a buffet, but the selection had to be seen to be believed, and the quality was amazing. So you sit there with your plate of mini-gyros, little biscuity things with cheese and spinach, marinated pear salad, seared tuna etc etc, and the waiters keep appearing at your table with yet another pot of spicey meatballs in tomato cream, or delicious crispy thin crust pizza, or peppered gnocchi... then another waiter comes and asks if you want anything from the grill, so you get your fillet steak or lamb chops, then you spot the seafood counter with the freshly prepared baby lobster tails... and you just keep going back for more! Eventually of course you have to slow down, not least because you've had their cocktails and wine which they very kindly include in the price (Rs1900) , so you head for the dessert counter for a rest and find that this whole new 'pudding compartment' has now appeared in your stomach and you're ready to start again!! Bliss.
If it was just the food that was good, that would be enough, but the surroundings are lovely. We sat in the lovely cool white-walled interior and watched people outside enjoying the equally lovely sunny outside area, with trees, cool blue water, and multi-coloured cushions spead everywhere. Musicians wandered round from table to table taking requests, and I honestly couldn't think of a nicer way to spend Sunday lunch. Olive Beach was already one of my favourite restaurants in Bangalore, but is now possibly one of my favourites ever. So like I say, if you're going to do the posh lunch thing, do it properly...
Aug 30, 2007
Tad expensive, but worthwhile
Why waste your money on 5 star hotel restaurants (like the disaster that is Blue Ginger @ the Taj) when you can have the near-perfect dining experience at Olive Beach?
Tucked away in a residential neighbourhood not far from the madding crowds of Richmond Rd, Olive Beach is a fine dining restaurant, though, as far as we could make out, less Meditteranean, than "new age" American. When there are things on the menu that most folks have trouble pronouncing, you know the place is either pretentious, or just plain good. Olive Beach is good. Not perfect, but good. Very good.
We ordered a cheese platter as an appetizer, couple of glasses of Merlot (an Indian one and a French, just to compare --- no prizes for guessng which won), and a wild mushroom soup to get started. The cheeses were good --- usual suspects, Brie, Camembert, Edam, and a couple of Italian ones which I wish I remember the names of. As a main course, I got a steak (yes - medium well was in fact, understood and well executed) , and a seared tuna. The tuna fell short ... no blood red insides, the way it's supposed to be, but pinkish in teh deepest areas, and sadly chewy on the outsides.
Dessert - a white chocolate parfait, was more than perfect, and made up for the tiny-tuna problems.
Service was good, what you would expect when you're shelling out 4 figures for a meal, but the waiter, while good natured, and polite, did not come across as super knowledgeable.
We heard that OB has a food sale on last Saturdays of every month - that might be a good place to pick up some specialty mushrooms, and wine!
We also read that they have a location in New Delhi with the Qutb Minar as the backdrop.