Food Lovers
Gourmet City is an event that celebrates signature dishes across Bangalore’s
finest restaurants. An initiative by Food Lovers Magazine, the event
collaborates with the restaurants featured; to bring you a special menu of
their best dishes. Opt for a tow-course meal or three-course – you have
multiple cuisines to choose from such as Indian, Asian, Chinese, Japanese,
Italian, European, Spanish, Mediterranean and many more. There is a fantastic
array of restaurants on offer here, to suit every possible mood and budget.
When this year,
Food Lovers Gourmet City happened, one of our own foodie Mitchel Dudani visited
‘Alba’ restaurant; one from many options given. She shares her views with us - “Finally I
visited Alba last evening for the Food lover’s gourmet city festival - very long
awaited in my list to visit.
The staff were
very received us warmly and I got a chance to meet Met Chef Bruno. He was such a sweetheart; talked nicely;
cracked jokes, never giving a feel that we have just met him. After looking at
the place, meeting the team and chef we choose our table. Loved the seating
arrangement; the stair kinds and every step has a table. The first table was covered
with long curtain for the special dinner and in the centre was the live
counter.
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| Mitchell and Chef Bruno |
After we were settled,
we saw the menu for the festival. Options were less but keeping in mind there
were signature dishes we were fine. In fact the food lovers website had already
published the menu, so no complains.
The person was
able to explain the dishes and what it contains etc. He was able to suggest on
what should we try which, was good as the names were very difficult to
pronounce for us. He requested if we could decide on all dishes for the 3-course
meal, we won’t have to wait for the food. And exactly as he said, we were
served just on time; perfect service co-ordination!
As we were waiting
for our 3 course meal - arrives the fresh assorted breads with olive oil which
was followed by 5 types of cheese. Both bread and Cheese were very nice and
fresh and we relished them!
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| assorted breads with different types of cheese and olive oil |
In starters, we
had ordered Parmesan cheese balls in
tomato sauce and Zucchini flan with sauce and cream. In main course, we had the
very famous spinach ravioli pasta in tomato sauce and Gnocchi potato and rivotti
cheese with veggies in tomato sauce; followed by deserts Tiramisu and Sillican cassatta.
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| GNOCCHI DI PATATE, SALSA ALLA PECORARA, RICOTTA FRESCA (V) (gnocchi potato, ricotta cheese with veggies) |
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| RAVIOLI DI SPINACI E RICOTTA (V) (spinach raviolli pasta |
Both the
starters were good very different in their own way. We have never had these
dishes earlier but it had some peculiar taste to it. Then follows our main
course just in time and we did not have to wait (as promised earlier) the
dishes looked relishing.
Spinach ravioli
pasta was just perfectly done, soft and nice. The pasta and cottage cheese
filling was great and went well with tomato sauce. I loved the gnocchi potato
and cheese with veggies. The cheese / potato would just melt in our mouth and flavours
were just perfect.
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| SICILIAN CASSATA, RICOTTA PARFAIT, CHOCOLATE, CANDIED FRUITS, LEMON SAUCE (cassata icecream with choc,cream,fondant) |
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| POLPETTE CACIO E UOVA (V) (parmesian cheese balls) |
Thick rich ice
cream with choco chips and some dry fruit if I correctly remember on a base of cake,
which had strong flavours of elaichi or coconut, was difficult to judge and was
covered with goey fondat and topped with green fondant. It was plated with some
milkmaid cream.
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| FLAN DI ZUCCHINI, SALSA DI TALEGGIO E TARTUFO NERO (V) (zucchini with sauce and cream) |
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| Tirmasiu |
I am soon
visiting the place for the some amazing pastas and pizzas.”
Service: 5/5
Ambiance: 5/5
Food: 4.5/5
Mitchel Dudani
is Manager Talent Acquisition with Café Coffee Day Group. Based in Bangalore,
she is a foodie and loves to experiment at home too.
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-Compiled by Nikita Dudani
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