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Yesterday, after a not so good time at Banerghatta Zoo. (more about that here) I met up with amoghavarsha and a few friends at Ameoba. Some corporates had booked the bowling area, so we spent some time playing arcade games.
After that, we decided to have dinner at Cafe Masala at Eva Mall.

The place is excellent in terms of decor. The ceiling has been covered with cloth and it gives a very nice effect when the wind makes it move. The dining area has a very nice view of the newly opened UB Towers. I also enjoyed the paintings on the wall. There was live music, with a guy on a piano playing excellent English and Hindi songs.

The service was very quick and very pleasing. May be it was because of the buffet week, but good nonetheless. The food was very very good and easily the best food I have eaten in Bangalore. The mutton was excellent and the meat very very tender. Every dish was present in a different way, and the Tandoori was excellent. We are so many kebabs and fried Paneers that I felt I was never going to have the main course at one point. The fish was very well cooked and spiced up just right so that you really enjoy the meat inside.

Since it was a long dinner that we had planned, I digged in and went to get the main course. The Biryani was present in a very nice clay pot covered in Mayda.. felt very nice to break the outer covering to get to the rice inside. The assortment of salads and sabzis for the rice items were very good. I was stuffed else would have given the crab a try as well.
After eating all this, I made my way to the desserts area. The milk chocolate was excellent. Very rich in terms of taste and thickness. Made a point to pour a a fair bit of it on my brownie and Rasmalai which were also present.

The only sort of negative point would be the Long Island Ice Tea. The drink was soft in the sense that we only got the taste of lime and not the feel of liquor in it. We told them about this, and despite a couple more attempts the drink never got any better. The menu did show a good selection of other spirits (relatively priced ofcourse! ).

There is a 10 day buffet festival going on so if anyone wants to go, now is a good time. The cost of the buffet is 400 INR + tax per head.

Food: 4/5 (Almost great… except for the LIT)
Ambience: 3/5 (Its nice)
Service: 4/5(Fast)
Price: 4/5(Definite value for money)
Overall: 4/5 (Highly recommend this place…personally)

I like to go out and ‘fine dine’ if you will. There are many good restaurants in bangalore, and when I hear a good one I usually feel like trying it out.
I had noticed a board not so long back on the Ring road near Basvangudi about a new restaurant called ’1947′. So last sunday, I just thought I would try that out with some family friends.
At first I was a bit skeptical about going to this place, because my friends are strong vegetarians and often refrain from entering a restaurant which serves meat and/or liqour. Nonetheless, I thought i’ll take a chance.

To my surprise, it turned out to be a pure vegetarian restaurant with mainly indian cuisine. The place has a very polished feel to it, and clearly shows that the restaurant is pretty new. So we kind of arrived there late.. at about 2:45PM and I was not sure if lunch would still be available at that time. But I guess, since its a new restaurant, they were willing to extend any such deadlines if they had in mind. Also, I found quite a good number of people inside, as I had not seen any sort of marketing done anytime for this place.
The place is also kind of hard to spot, since it is on top of Bella Casa which is a kitchen and bathroom decor showroom.

OK.. back to the restaurant. The inside had a lot of pre independence stuff scattered about. Most noticeably a Chakra and an old canon [surely not loaded ]. This is where I guess the whole ’1947′ theme ends…because the the tables and chairs were pretty modern. They had glass tables and pretty modern cutlery. Guess they had those before 1947 as well..;).
Moving on…the food was great. Everything was well prepared. The service was also good as we got what we ordered in a reasonably short amount of time. They looked pretty well staffed to handle a large number of people entering the restaurant. I dont remember what we ordered exactly, but I enjoyed the food.

OK.. now to do it the way pro reviewers of restaurants do..

Food: 3/5 (The 3 is because of lack of non-veg food)
Ambience: 3/5 (Nothing great as such)
Service: 4/5(Pretty fast..without compromise on quality)
Price: 3/5(Vegetarian food is comparatively cheap)
Overall: 3/5

This is a really nice place if you want to go somewhere with family members and relatives and who are vegetarian. There are only a few VEG only restaurants in the city(as far as I have seen).
Better make reservations if you plan to go in the evening. Just to be safe.