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Experience 25% off at Zafraan with DineClub

Admin — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:32:25 +0000

If you are living in and around C V Raman Nagar, Kaggadaspura, G M Palya, Vignanagar or Mallesh Palya then there is a good reason for you to be happy. One of the newest restaurants Zafraan Divine cuisine has opened right on the Kaggadaspura main road. Zafraan is a specialty restaurant, the food is an interesting mélange of the Persian, Mughlai, Arabic cuisine which is gracefully adapted to the Indian palate.

DineClub members get a 25% off at this restaurant

At Zafraan, only the finest and freshest ingredients are used with utmost care taken to ensure that classic, centuries-old recipes are prepared and presented to perfection. Zafraan serves some excellent kababs. So the next time you are in the mood of having good food then head straight to Zafraan. This place is very close to Bagmane Tech Park. It is centrally located on Kaggadaspura Main Road above Reliance Fresh.

DineClub offer details can be found at: http://dineclub.in/listing/minioffers/Bangalore/7

Celebrate Valentines with DineClub

Admin — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 08:23:32 +0000

Express your love for the loved ones this valentines with DineClub on 13th and 14th Feb 2011, at the following venues:

Zodiac, Fortune Select Trinity, Whitefield
Live Band with International Dinner Buffet Rs 1200 per Couple

Oriental Pavilion, Fortune Select Trinity, Whitefield:
Candle-light Dinner with DJ belting out light melodies. Wine paired 5 course set menu: Rs 1500 per Couple

H2O and Village, Marathahalli:
Tatoo artists, Magicians, Candle Light Dinner: Rs 1200 per couple

Review of Casablanca – The Pride Hotel, Richmond Road, Bangalore

Ruth — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 12:49:54 +0000

I liked Pride Hotel a lot the first time we went there for a wedding reception. The food was of course catered by the hotel and it was really nice. Good choices by the bride and groom, but all really well done. I had seen that they had a restaurant called Cafe Treat on the ground floor which went on our list. Cafe Treat was a buffet place largely. Then I read somewhere that they had an a la carte restaurant which did some a decent review or two. And that’s how we ended up there one Saturday afternoon.

The restaurant is on the first floor and occupies quite a large space. A section of it overlooks the lobby. The place was empty and that’s always makes one’s eyebrow go up a bit. But anyways, we settled down and were handed the menus. They are not really well thought of. They are designed to look like photo albums of yore. The narrow slits on either side for the leaflet. While these are good for sturdier photos, they are useless for thinner leaflets like this menu was. And the thing literally came off in our hands. We requested for one we could manage easier and were given the same menu in a while, with the leaflets fixed back in – only in a completely jumbled manner. Desserts in the beginning, starters at the end and the like.

Anyways, we put that behind us and ordered – a beer for Sudhakar and a Mojito for me. Nothing can go wrong with bottled beer. The Mojito looked fine for starters and then I realized there were undissolved sugar crystals and was a touch more potent than is good for a weekend afternoon lunch …. hmmm.

We didn’t really feel like starters and went straight to main courses. A Chicken Biryani for junior, a Chicken Mombasa sizzler for Sudhakar and a pasta for me. I asked for spaghetti in a tomato based sauce (can’t really remember the name) with chicken. Now the Chicken Biryani really was nice. The meat had been marinated, the masalas were well infused and the rice was perfectly done. Junior did justice to the bowl, which says a lot considering that feeding her is a task that even Hercules would run away from.

The sizzler too had the right amount of sizzle and was perfectly portioned for one person. There were potato wedges and boiled veggies on the side. I personally felt though that the onion rings on top were meant for some other dish in the kitchen by ended up on the sizzler. I love tomato based pastas, but this was a complete tomato harvest on one plate. The pasta was thin and almost vermicelli like and after a while, I just got bored with it and parceled for my work day lunch.

Overall, the experience was not exactly unpleasant. There are a few hits and misses and I guess you will enjoy your food depending on what you order. Customizing your dish is not really a thing here. The loo is a fair distance from the restaurant but clean. Casablanca is on DineClub’s roster for a 25% discount on the overall bill. This meal came to around Rs 1000 after the discount.

: Mojito

: Biryani