Broccoli (Kolkata)

Huh, Seriously?

To start with, one wonders why a restaurant would be named after a vegetable that is not featured anywhere on the menu (reminiscent, in a strange way, of Bolano's 2666). One also wonders why a restaurant would be located farthest from the entrance on the ground floor of a bustling departmental store, given that the store itself would be closed during dinner hours. In fact, inefficient planning has led to the deployment of two fancy-dress resources actually standing at the entrance to entice people to visit the restaurant. To come back to the aforementioned menu though, the pasta with white sauce is worth a try, with the condiments ensuring that the monotony of the white sauce is done away with. The same, unfortunately, cannot be said of the prawn, which is indeed quite tasteless. While the chicken fried rice is mostly decent, the sub-standard side dish mars the enjoyment of the entire course. One extremely weird thing is the absence of soft beverages, and the management’s easy willingness to allow guests to buy beverages from outside and consume them with the meal. That, coupled with the lack of electronic payment infrastructure, gives you the picture of a restaurant set up almost on a lark and deservedly struggling to find itself a place in the market.

Ambience                ★★★
Service                    ★★★
Presentation            ★★★
Taste                      ★★★