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Reviews by ninadinesh
Jul 30, 2007
Hatworks Boulevard, 32, Cunningham Road, Bangalore
Rated: Good
Stop over for Desert!
This is the kind of place one would love to go over and over again, be it for lunch or coffee or for dinner.
Fresco’s is more famous for the mouth-watering deserts. Not only are they a treat for the eyes, but are equally delicious. The B52 i.e., a layer of white chocolate, dark chocolate and coffee cream will surely melt in your mouth, so will the sticky date cake. That’s not all; you might want to try the 12-layered cake, the chocolate and strawberry mousse cake, the blueberry pie or the lemon tart. With choices as wide as these, the problem is, WHAT DO I ORDER!!! They all look so good and they taste equally good.
Fresco’s also serves some nice food, besides the deserts. The pastas are good. The spaghetti with pesto sauce or the pasta carbonarra, which is stuffed with some chicken and served with cream sauce are a big hit. My favourite is the lemony prawn kebabs. The prawns are marinated and are then grilled and served on skewers with zucchini. The herb rice is an accompaniment. the dish is then topped off with a very creamy sauce. Sea food lovers can also try the baked crabs or the fish toronatto. The fish fillet is stuffed with shrimps and is served with rice with a sour cream kind of a sauce. The menu also has a few sizzlers.
The place serves some Indian food. I have tried the nargisi kofta, which I liked. Scotch eggs doused with some red gravy and with minty green gravy. It is served either with rice or paav.
This place is great for coffee and sandwiches and of course, not to forget the deserts. Great evenings can be spent here over a cuppa.
Jul 30, 2007
14 Church Street,, Bangalore
Rated: Good
Buffet at Mainland China
Myself and a couple of my colleagues decided to tuck into some good chineese food on a nice Saturday afternoon. Our destination, 'the buffet at Mainland China'.
We were welcomed to an ambience which was anything but Chinese, except for some Chinese painting at far corners of the wall.
We started off with some prawn crackers, which were nice and crunchy without any strong fishy flavour. the crackers were followed by hot chicken clear soup, which one may want to completely forget about. The whiff of the chicken was very strong. The chicken dimsum was tender and cooked to perfection. The very spicy pepper sauce is a perfect accompaniment. But make sure you don’t douse the dimsum in the sauce, as I said earlier, it is indeed very spicy.
A very refreshing mocktail is also served with the buffet. It is a blend of , which is infused with really delicate flavour of mint, lemon and a dash of honey. Tea lovers might also want to try some jasmine tea. However, for those of you, who like their tea sweet, be warned, the jasmine concoction has a very negligible amount of sugar.
The dimsum was followed by chicken wings brushed with some honey again, which gave it a very nice hot and sweet flavour. It would have tasted better had they been served straight out of the wok, piping hot.
Main course was an assortment of fish in oyster sauce, squid tossed with bell peppers, prawns in sichuan sauce, lamb cooked with cumin and some chicken in white sauce. Other than for the prawns which had very nice and subtle taste to it, the others were passable. I tucked in a good helping of the prawns. The chicken fried rice was not very appetizing, but the chicken noodle was good.
Desert was an assortment of seasonal fruits, fruit moose that had an overdose of vanilla essence, ice cream and sweetened flat noodles.
To sum up, the service is very courteous and the food is good.