Monday, August 3, 2009

Mezzeh me....

Me and S went to Mezzeh, a Lebanese restaurant part of a multi-level multi-cuisine restaurant called World Cuisine N on 80 feet Road Indranagar Bangalore. A rooftop lounge bar complete with Lebanese music (sounded Arabic to us) and a cozy sit out. Having no experience with either the food or the music the menu was alien to us. Although we could figure what Hummus and Baba ghanuosh was, everything else complicated with no or poor explanation of the items. Some names were Arabic and only after ordering the first course I could make what it was all about… meat and bread with lots of dips…. The dairy dip section read funny as it seemed just a yogurt dip costed a whooping 150/- bucks with no mention of the bread that accompanies it and the amount of dip with 2 small bread or khobbus was quite inadequately priced and portioned. Only after paying a lot of attention around one can make out what the dish might look/taste like.
Although a woman attendant rushed in to help us but a common problem I noticed about restaurant in Bangalore is that either they have very poor English or their accent failed miserably to explain what is on offer.
Although the menu was in order of starters and main course, but we decided to do the reverse which was not a bad idea at all! I felt a better work can be done with the menu plan and execution so it helps people understand how to order and what is on offer... with our confused state we ordered a meat platter which was part of the main course with our drinks....the mezzeh meat platter arrived with chicken kebabs, mutton kebabs, lamb ribs and what looked like a beef bacon. The chicken kebabs was good but the mutton one ( looked like boti kakab was done rare.)
I enjoyed the khabbus or the bread on which all the meat was laid out, the cream dip was garlicky and tasty but I missed having some roughage to go with the dip.
Our ordering backwards continued and we asked for kakabs on skewers followed by a yogurt dip with khabbus, this time around the dip was a let down as it was more sour than creamy and the khabbus were unlike what came before, large and moist, instead they were dry flavorless kulcha like.
All in all I enjoyed my meal but not sure if coming back for meat and bread is a good idea for the cost was steep and the service and the potions confusing!

1 comment:

From babush with love! said...

Hai Antu good you posted this me and Vinay have been thinking of going to this place.Will surely not try now!