Spiga - Romance with Food

Spiga serves European and Mexican cuisine and is located on St.Marks road. It is a classy roof-top restaurant, which makes you feel like you are in Greece. This is a perfect place to take your girlfriend (or boyfriend) out for a romantic dinner. Unfortunately I have never been to Spiga's for dinner, but have heard that the light up the entire place with candles.

Now coming to the important part - the Food. I have been there twice and have found that one should try the sea food there and steer clear of the Indianised dishes. One of the starters worth mentioning is the spicy hummus starter. Amongst the choice of main course dishes, I would recommend the Fish in Lemon butter sauce. The portions are pretty big and it requires a good appetite to finish off a main course on your own.

Spiga is a bit expensive for the food it serves and a meal for two without drinks would make you poorer by around Rs1000. But, if you are going out for a romantic dinner and want good food along with it, Spiga is one of the best places to go.

Spiga

9, Halycon, 4th Floor

St.Marks Road
Bengaluru

Phone: 080 42110469

Annachi: My first Chettinad Experience

Annachi is a restaurant dedicated to chettinad cuisine located on the 100 feet road, Koramangala. Annachi is completely devoted to chettinad cuisine and this is reflected in their decor and as well as in the ambiance. The decor is tastefully done up with built-in courtyard seats and with traditional south cotton saris decorating the wall.

Chettinad (as I found out later is a region of the Sivaganga district of southern Tamil Nadu and is famous for it's spicy cuisine. Even after living in Bangalore for almost four years now, I had never tasted the famed Chettinad cuisine. So, I googled for a good place to enjoy Chettinad food near my home and came up with "Annachi".

Feeling adventurous I drove to the place and ordered Chettinad Meen Varuthathu (Seer fish fry), Eratchi Chops (Mutton gravy) and Annachi special Parota. Going through the menu while waiting for my order to come, I suddenly felt adventurous and ordered Moolai Melagu Varuval (Brain pepper fry) and a local drink (I forgot the name). The Fish fry was brilliant and the brain fry was well cooked, but according to me the brain is not the tastiest part of the goat. The combination of the mutton gravy with the parota was heavenly and should not be missed at any cost.

On the whole, my first tryst with Chettinad cuisine was totally worth the three and a half year wait and I am eagerly waiting for the huge list of undiscovered delicacies that this cuisine has for me in the near future.

Annachi is a tastefully decorated restaurant and is decently priced, where a dinner for two would cost you around Rs.600 (without drinks).

Annachi:

54, MSK Plaza

100 Ft. Road, Above Coffee Day

Indiranagar, Bangalore

Phone: 41261181, 41261182, 41272197