The Plus Way with Dineout at The Pink Poppadom, Hyatt

Dineout is India’s Largest Table Reservation App and now Dineout is introducing its latest offering Dineout Plus - A Premium Dining Membership Program which will offer great benefits when one dine's at the top five star restaurants based out of Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Kolkata.

With Dineout plus, you can book tables at over 150 five-star restaurants and avail a flat 25% discount on total bill. These restaurants have unlimited usage which means you can dine at the same place any number of times and still avail the same discount.

With Dineout plus, one can dine in style and to celebrate this, selected bloggers were invited to celebrate and launch Dineout plus at The Pink Poppadom, Hyatt Bangalore. Rajat Bhatia from Dineout introduced us to The Plus Experience. A special 4 course menu was curated by Chef Manish which includes the best of the restaurant. The menu was paired with Krsma wine and Vishal Nagpal took us through the different wines from Krsma.

As I don't drink wine, other's enjoyed Krsma wines with assorted canapes. Then dinner started with Soup - Dohra mulligatawny which is a classical Indian peppered lentil soup, served with their beetroot version. It was a thick soup and usually had in the south.

Then came delicious The Trio non-veg starter which had an array of smoked chicken, gilafi seekh and prawn cafrial which is charred in tandoor and served with pineapple shooter.

For main course, Drunkard chicken was served which was cooked in indian masala served with neer dosa and Kokum fish with ghee rice. Kokum fish was very tasty and complemented well with ghee rice

For dessert, Chuski was served along with Coconut creme brulee, chocolate samosa, mango jamun and candied rose petal and Paan shots to end the evening.

Chef Manish has made sure the portions of the meal was sufficient to fill one's tummy and my first visit to The Pink Poppdom was impressive. Looking forward to many more visits and also use my Dineout Plus card.

'Treasures of Sea' festival at Barbeque Nation

I love seafood festivals as I am sea food lover. This time I was invited to be part of 'Treasures of Sea' festival at Barbeque Nation, Indiranagar. I am sure most of us visit Barbeque nation with group of friend's, esp on cheat days to indulge in their lip smacking starters and heavenly desserts.

Treasures of Sea was all about enjoying sea food at Barbeque Nation from January 23rd to February 8th. I was excited to check out the various sea food which would be served.

For drinks, I tried the Chocolate monk. It was a drink resembling chocolate smoothie, stand alone I loved this drink and wouldn't mind having it on a daily basis but not for my meal as it would fill my tummy and also doesn't pair with my food. I also tried Mango Rapture which did not suit my taste as it was too heavy for my meal. So I moved to Lime soda for the evening which would help me eat and also would pair with my food.

I couldn't for starters to be served. Crispy fried anchovy with Tamrind sauce, Jamaican jerk chicken, crumb fried squids with aioli dip, Mai Thai prawns, Maryland crab cakes, Mutton Galawati and Basa Peri peri were served. I loved Mai Thai prawns, Basa Peri Peri, Mutton Galawati and Jamaican jerk chicken and did not repeating it throughout the night. Crumb fried squids does not suit my taste and so did crispy fried anchovy. Maryland crab cakes were decent and were made to perfection. I tried different dips to glaze the starters and enjoyed it.

From the live counter, which is billed separately for the customers, 2 variants of fish was served and they were totally different to taste. I liked the fish manchurian more.

Trying to stop myself for indulging in more starters, I headed to the buffet to try the soups and salad's.
Seafood laksa was superb, though it had less of seafood in it, I did not mind as I felt refreshed and more hungry after I had it. I tried the prawn cocktail salad which is one of my favorite's and Barbeque nation maintained the taste of the cocktail dressing which made me happy. I did not try strawberry and chicken salad and assorted seafood platter.

Main course has always been average at Barbeque nation, mainly because the starters are to die for. The standard of main course as maintained. I tried prawn biryani which was pretty good. Meen moilly and Mangalorean crab curry excited me which should be eaten with Iddiappam. I did not get Iddiappam on time so I just had the taste of the curry. Crab curry did not have much flavors in it and hence it did not excite me more while Meen moilly was good. I did not try Mutton Vindaloo, Bhuna Kukkad masala and Nasi Goreng.

The staff had also planned a small performance for the guest. It was enjoyable. You can watch the video here.

Time for dessert. At Barbeque nation I always indulge more in starters and desserts. So I headed to the dessert counter with a twinkle in my eye to check the varieties. Small gulaab jamoon, tender coconut payasam, death by chocolate pastry, blue sea cheesecake, chocolate strawberry tart, mango mousse, phirni along with fig and honey ice cream and some fruits were placed. I made sure I picked all of it on my plate and made sure my fellow blogger friends were also served. I loved all the dessert and couldn't resist having another round of the same.

How can one not have the famous paan flavor kulfi. This was repeated on the table till we made sure we left the premises. Make sure you have this kulfi as you will not regret the decision.

Over all, an enjoyable evening was set by Barbeque nation for seafood lover like me.