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Toast restaurant is also a Grill, offering a variety of international cuisine, such as Mediterranean, American, European and Lebanese. And of course, if you have a well stocked bar, what more could you want. After 11 PM, it converts into a nightclub, with an ash wooden floor that can be used for dancing. The restaurant has 2 private areas as well, with a private lounge, if you want to hold parties or celebrations. The lighting is soft and diffused, giving an overall great ambience.
The food here focuses on more of grilled and roasted stuff, and in today’s world where we worry about too much fat and high calorie, these are better dishes, with the food being light and easy on the stomach. However, the place is a bit expensive, with a dinner for two without drinks being around Rs. 900-1000. The bar has a big selection, and you can get a huge varieties of drinks and cocktails over here.

Contact details:

Shop no. 43,44, 3rd Floor,
West Gate Mall, Ring Rd,
Tagore Garden Extension, New Delhi, 110027,
Phone number : India? – 9971990644, 9971990643, 011-43513773, 43513776

Happy Hours: 3:30 PM TO 8:00 PM, Restaurant open from 12:00 Noon TO 1:00 AM

Toast restaurant (Bar and Grill) located in West Gate Mall, Rajouri Garden – Location on Google Maps

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The West Gate Mall is one of the larger malls in the area of West Delhi, being one of the 5 malls located in the general area of Shivaji Place District Centre, Rajouri Garden, West Delhi (and located very close to an important road, Ring Road). The other malls located nearby are City Square, TDI Mall, TDI Paragon, Shopper’s Stop. The Rajouri Garden metro station is also nearby. This mall serves as one of the destination points for the localities nearby, such as Punjabi Bagh, Rajouri Garden, Tilak Nagar,Mansarovar Garden, Kirti Nagar, Paschim Vihar and Patel Nagar.
West Gate Mall is pretty large, having 2 levels of basement parking (although there is a huge open air parking just next to the mall that is preferred by most people), and also has 6-7 movie halls located on the top floor. In between the basement and the top floor, there are a large number of shops and eating joints that draw a number of people.

Clothing / accesories shops: United Colors of Benetton, Lacoste, Next, Guess, Adidas, Reebok, Nike, Van Heusen, Levi’s, Jockey, Franco Leene, Urban 10, Taniya Khanuja, BE ME, Leela’s Studio, Lyallpur Instyle, Art Karat, Etam, Max Fashion Retail, Allen Solly, Lee, Straps, Freiburg, Shaw Brothers, Just She, G & B Fashion Pvt. Ltd, Bossini, Arrow, Latin Quarters, Planet Retail Holdings Pvt. Ltd, Lacoste, Puma, Kipling, Portland, GFO, Dremz, Mark and Spencer, Kazo, Pepe, Satya Paul, Pantaloon,

Restaurants: Food Court, TGIF, Ambrosia, Freeze (a luxury bar with the temperature at -10 Celsius), Papa Johns, Golden Dragon, Toast, Moti Mahal, American Hot, Quik Bites

Miscellaneous: Elvy Lifestyle Private Limited, World of Titan, Aryan Lifestyle Private Limited, Ambience, Gelato Vittorio, The Mobile Store, Food Bazaar, The Body Shop

Location of West Gate Mall, Rajouri Garden, West Delhi on Google Maps:

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Address: Plot No 4,5,6, Shivaji Palace dist Center Rajauri Garden, New Delhi, 110027.

I have always been fond of Tex-Mex cuisine mostly due to lots of cheese in it:). I liked going to Ruby Tuesdays earlier but they just got their menu all wrong and when I saw that they have removed Chimichanga from their menu, I stopped going there. I recent times, TGIF Noida has been my favorite place to eat food and have beer.

TGIF is a chain of restaurants worldwide and the whole concept of having old artifacts, different assorted items, bar and sitting setup is more or less same at all outlets. The overall feel is like of a relaxed Friday’s evening when the work has finished for the week and you want to start weekend with some food and drinks. I really like the setup. The music is also not very much loud – one more thing which I like in an eating place. Overall, for me, a good place to go either with family or with colleagues. They have recently changes their menu – and Chimichanga is here now

Since I have been there a lot of time, I have nearly tried most of the stuff. My recommendation would be

For vegetarians – try ‘Grilled Pita Dipper’, ‘Fried Mac & Cheese’ or ‘Dynabites’ in appetizers. Try ‘Broken Noodles’ pasta or ‘Quesdillas’ or ‘Chimichanga’ as the main dish. Top it up with ‘Fridays Sundae’ – Vanilla ice cream topped with hot fudge, caramel sauce, nuts and cream. Yummy :)

For non-vegetarians – try ‘Chicken Fajita Nachos’ or ‘Three-For-All’ scheme where you get three appetizers in one serving. For main dish, try ‘Sizzling Chicken and Cheese’ or ‘Fridays Shrimp’.

The menu keeps changing and there would always be some offer at the Noida outlet since they are new and want to establish themselves. For example, they are currently having buy one and get one free offer on food and drinks both.

Contact Information
T.G.I. Friday’s
319-320 (3rd Floor),
Great India Place, Sector 38A
Noida – 201301
Tel: 120-4221 000
Email: t2238@fridaysindia.com

Khan Market (near Lodhi Estate) in New Delhi is one of the swankiest market locations in Delhi, and also one of the most expensive. It is frequented by the classy people of Delhi (including diplomats from the nearby posh colonies of Golf Links, and Jor Bagh).
One of the famous restaurants located over there is called Blanco, and is almost like a world cuisine (well, it serves multi cuisine food with European, Japanese, Indonesian, Thai, and so on). Sounds good, doesen’t it ? A lot of regular patrons agree, and people liking the place frequent it regularly. It can be expensive though, with a food for 2 with drinks coming to Rs. 1500 – 2000. For that cost, you better feel very good at the end of the meal, and enjoy it a lot.
The seating is interesting and experimental, with wooden tables (in a somwhat unfinished look). The look is different from the conventional look, and an interesting look on the walls (a lot of sunglasses, although there is no reason as to why sunglasses were chosen. If you watch the video below, you will know what the reasoning behind the restaurant people were on putting these sunglasses).
Here’s a sampling on some of the food available at the restaurant – Asparagus and wasabi cheese wraps, Grilled feta and herbed polenta on skewers, Sushi platter, Vietnamese crisp prawn rolls, Carribean salads, Crispy red snapper, various tomato soups, Peppered chicken and mushroom broth, various steaks, Hawaiin pork chops, Australian lamb rack, Zuccini rolls, Grilled jumbo prawns, King fish steak, Cajun grilled vegetables, and Grilled vegetables steak.
They have a small selection of drinks, and a separate smoking section.

Map of Blanco:

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Here’s a video on Youtube of Blanco:

Contact details and address:

The restaurant is spread over 2 levels and can seat 50 people. It is open from 11 AM to 11 PM.
62, Khan Market, New Delhi 110003
011-43597155, 43597166

Jim Morrison is long dead, died way back in 1971. However, fans of his music live on; who can forget the music that he generated in his short life. There is a varieties of restaurants / cafes that promote the music and memorabilia of hard rock, and these cafes are called ‘Hard Rock Cafe’. Delhi also has one of these, in the rocking South Extension Part 2 area, setup in 2005, called Cafe Morrison.
The decor of a Hard Rock Cafe is always different from the others, with a large dose of rock star posters, music, guitars, etc. Imagine the pleasure when the Cafe plays the old type music from 8:00 PM to 10:30 PM. In addition, you have some classic bike commercials playing from time to time. The Cafe also gives space to young bands, with live performance on Sundays.
Besides the music, you also get some great cocktails and drinks. The food is Mexican, with one of their specialities being Fajitas Chicken. So, what are you waiting for, come, get some great food and drink, and rock yourselves to a good time.

E-12, South Extension II
South Extension II, Delhi
Contact details: 011 26255652?, 09350547434?

A scene from Cafe Morrison on Youtube:

Media Coverage of Cafe Morrison:

Delhi’s trendy people are always looking for a good place to jive, enjoy their drinks, shake a leg and have a good time. Float, located in the Park Royal Intercontinental Hotel in Delhi’s Nehru Place area is a good place to do that. The pub is a day and night pub that operates as a dance floor, as a restaurant, as a cigar enjoying joint (in a special glass enclosure), and as a pub. With all this, and with a great ambiance, including an open kitchen, you can be sure that this pub is popular, and it sure is.
The restaurant here has cuisines from all over the world, starting with some great starters in the form of Nachos, starters from Indonesia, Italian Bruchetta, Lebanese starters such as hummus, falafel with pita bread, Chicken Nuggets, and many others. And of course, vegetarians have a great variety available in the form of Chili Mushrooms, many Chinese starters, Paneer starters, etc. And if you are there for lunch, you get some great food in the form of some great Italian Pasta (where you can select from the different types of sauces, herbs, and other ingredients and get the pasta made exactly as you want). Then there are other Italian stuff such as pizza, lasagna; and of course, you can get some great wine.
And as for the desert, enjoy some great desert, with cheesecake (made in a unique way and very delicious).

A good location for a restaurant is Connaught Place, practically the center of Delhi. Earlier, the hall Plaza had started decaying, but with the revival of the whole of CP (with the welcome addition of the Metro), Plaza also became PVR Plaza, a new and refurbished place. And then came this restaurant located in the same building, spread over a large area. Named after ‘Picadilly’, a famous location of London, the restaurant also has a pub right inside, called ‘Drunken Duck’.
The restaurant is large, but we had gone on a Saturday evening, and the rush was incredible, and with so many families there along with children, the noise levels were also incredible (it took us 15 minutes to get a table). The tables were also feeling more cramped, and navigating between them when a person is not as thin as a stick could be a bit difficult.
The experience was a mixed experience. The service was incredibly fast by Delhi standards, but the food and the quantum of food was so-so; in more detail, the veg starters (honey potatoes) were not so good, while the non-veg chicken starter was much better. Quantity of the starters was plenty, but one cannot really say the same for the main dishes (given that they were also priced on the higher side). A fish dish that I had ordered cost around Rs. 350, and I had 3 tasty (but small pieces of fish). Be prepared to order 2-3 dishes if 3-4 of you are going there. The cocktails and other drinks were fine. The decor inside the restaurant was decent, with the high roof and the space overhead being decent, but if you have been to London, the whole feeling looks very pretentious.
Overall, if I have to go there, I will go on a weekday, and be prepared to spend approx Rs. 2500+ for 4 people (drinks, snacks, food, and dessert). The good point was 2-3 of the desserts were proclaimed as sugar-free, and this always helps people who need to avoid sugar. The food is of Chinese / Indian type, and taste wise is a bit bland.

Location of Piccadelhi restaurant on Google Maps:

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Contact Details:
Phone : 011 – 23316344 /47 /48 /49
Fax : 011 – 23316349
Address : Plaza Cinema Building, H-Block, Connaught Circus, New Delhi – 110 001

After a bad experience at the String restaurant, we could have taken even a so-so experience at another restaurant, and we really did not want to travel too much, so we all went to just one level below (to the first floor) of the Shoprix Mall in Noida, went to the Eden restaurant. The lady at the entrance looked at us a bit hesitatingly, after all, there were 10 of us; when we told her that we had already almost made a booking (we had not confirmed the reservation), she smiled a bit and then told us in 2 minutes that space had been made for us. The whole place was packed (which on a Friday evening at 7:15 says something about the popularity of the place), and we managed to sit down at a table that would have seated 8 with comfort (and sat 10 packed).
The lighting was a bit dim (somewhat like a bar), except that with such a mixed cloud of girls and boys, one would have expected some more lighting to be there and be more like a resto-bar rather than a bar type of environment. It took some time for them to get us the menus and all, the staff was friendly. We patiently waited for them to give up attention, although it was a bit hard to talk in all that noise. Finally, we placed our orders for snacks and drinks. Happy hours last till 7:30 PM (although cocktails are not covered under the happy hours), and drinks cost in the range of Rs. 200 – 300 for cocktails. The place is moderately prices and the quantity of snacks that we got was adequate, they did not do that strange thing that many places do, giving small quantity of snacks.
The drink was decent, although the Mojito I had ordered was much better in Fluid (but then there is plenty of difference between Fluid and Eden, so one should not use that criteria). The snacks were decent, and you get plenty of veg and non-veg snacks, with a mixture of Indian and Chinese snacks. The main course was also good, we had got Indian food (dishes and rotis) and they were decent to taste. The service was overall decent, and this is a place that you can take the spouse or close friend, and easily go with office colleagues.

Ruby Tuesday is a US chain of restaurants that are meant for people to get a feel of North American cuisine and drinks. So, you got various types of burgers and sandwiches, seafood, food made Cajun style, steaks, Italian food, Mexican food and different types of salads. In addition, you get a range of great desserts, and some great drinks. The restaurants have a great ambience, with low piped music. The furniture is all dark wood, and the decor also has various types of curios mounted on the walls.
Ruby Tuesday has various locations in Delhi and NCR, and so you should be able to find one near to you wherever you are:

14-15 Community Center
PVR Anupam Complex
Saket, New Delhi 110-017
Telephone: 91-11-2686-1741/42

CS-27, 28 &124 DLF City Centre, Ph-II
Gurgaon, Haryana
Telephone: 91-124-501-4244/46

RT Janak Place Shop No. 8 and 9
Satyam Cinema
Janak Place District Centre
Janak Puri, New Delhi
Telephone:91-1-41588745/46

Noida
The Centerstage Mall
Sector 18
Noida
Uttar Pradesh
Telephone: 91.120.251.5679

TDI Mall Raja Garden
Shop No. G5-G6, Ground Floor
TDI Mall, Shivaji Place District Centre
New Delhi, India
Telephone: 91-1-25106005/06

Greater Kailash II
M-44, Greater Kailash II
New Delhi 110 048
India
Telephone: 91-1-40536606/07

Faridabad
Shop No. GB 02B
Crowne Plaza Mall
Sector 15 A
Faridabad
Haryana, India
Telephone: 91-129-401-8001

Nehru Place
Satyam Cineplex Nehru Place, Shop No. 12, 13
45 Nehru Place Dist. Centre
New Delhi, India 110 019

Rohini Unit
Unitech Metro Walk
Rohini, Sector 10
New Delhi, India

Say you live or work in Noida or Indirapuram, and are somewhat fed up of the regular places where you go to for food or drinks with friends / colleagues. Well, here is another place that you can explore.
Caspian is a somewhat upcoming place in the Noida Sector 50 market (located in the backside of the market where Domino’s is located). The place is a double-layered facility, with the ground floor being the bar and the top floor being the restaurant (drinks are available in the restaurant).
The place is a decent place, but quite obviously not anywhere being a classy joint. You get the standard food variety, with the naan’s, rotis, and various types of curries, chicken, meat, etc available. The selection of drinks is also normally what you see in places like these, with the standard set of whiskies, rum, vodka, cocktails and mocktails available.
The food is hot, but the service levels could do with some improvement. Also, the decor could be improved to some degree, with better seating. The restaurant has a square demarcated place right in the middle where you would expect a bartender to be standing surrounded by drinks and glasses, but that particular structure is empty.
Food prices were just right, and again normal for what you would expect to pay in any other place like this. My overall impression was that you would neither have a negative nor a positive reaction.