CHILI'S New Menu.

The tex-mex cuisine is aiming for a standardised position in the Hyderabad food dairy, which has come again in the disguise of Chili's part two, which is located in the prime location of Banjara Hills. I was here with some of ,my foodie friends and we gathered here for lunch. 

The place is quite catchy when you are on road no.1 banjara hills towards GVK mall. The interiors are very good and colorful background with different poster boards of food and the upside down glass lights and the wooden carved chili's board name...will make your presence a bit more exciting about the place. 

Coming to food, we started with some appetizers, followed by main course drinks and deserts. The classic nachos with cheese dressing were served in veg and non veg variants, which are very good with the mustard layered cheese dressing. The best part is the salsa which was tangy enough to compensate the cheese flavor in nachos. I loved it. The chicken variant is my choice which has got more flavor of sauces or the cheese.

Then we had the chicken appetizer platter in which we had different varieties of chicken made in different ways and are presented in one single platter for each of us. The bone less chicken wings, the winglets, kfc style chicken and the stuffed chicken with carrots. The cream and salad was the best accompaniment one can ask for such beautiful platter, which was very appetizing in both texture and taste. Among them i liked the bone less wings and the winglets which are spicy and tangy enough. The stuffed bone less chicken in a roll, was the best of the lot with lot of barbeque flavor and the chicken was tender enough for me to taste. The sour cream helped me to balance the flavors. 

In the main course, i got the chicken steak and the fajitas. The chicken steak was served with much of breast part with the cream sauce. The chicken tasted good and the sauce was a bit dull in taste and needs some improvement. The fajitas were good, chicken and mushroom combination is not to miss. 

In the quesadillas, they cheese and jalapeno variants in which i loved the jalapeno one, which was loaded with the cheese and jalapeno which gave me the whole flavor of the quesadilla and i loved it with the dry salsa. The cheese one is actually loaded with more cheese and the flavor was one less side, though i loved the cheese burst in my mouth with no thought of flavor. 

The salmon steak was served with mixed bean rice and cream cheese sauce in which the sauce is the best part, which is a bit spicy and sour, which can be accompanied with the fish alone and rice mixed. The taste will be good after a while.  

The drinks were served in between and my favorite among the drinks my favorite was POM-MANGO RITA, it is a combination of mango and pomegranate juice which is dominated with the flavor mango and the crushed ice will diminish the flavor if you wont consume it fast. The less the crushed ice,, the better the taste. 

In deserts the choco lava cake and the cinnamon white chocolate cake are good and the cinnamon with white chocolate is my favorite with the molten white chocolate in between the vanilla ice cream and the cinnamon cake. The taste was excellent and cinnamon tastes a bit strong with the chocolate. 

The service was very quick and prompt, the chef was around all the time explaining the dishes each and every one. Even i had a chance to visit their kitchen and on a whole it was a great experience with tex-mex cuisine at chili's and i will be back for their set menu which was quite impressive and will suit the needs of the office going crowd who looks out for some good change in their plans for lunch every now and then. 

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AB-Absolute Barbeque

What is your feeling, when you just stepped outside of the lift too see a lool of customers waiting outside the restaurant for their turn to dine in, since hours and you just make your way like walk on the water. That feeling comes with some price and pride. The pride is the feeling which comes when you dine in solo, to experience yourself all alone, with a separate seat just for your self and all the remaining seats watching you eat. I AM A FOODIE.....i eat like no one's watching me.

Just happened to experience the same scene today at AB's jubilee hills when i was on the thought of having lunch at this place. With no time wasted i was given the seat and i was comforted with a chilled beer and some starters. Among them i liked the chicken starter and the fish. The chicken was cooked well with the good tangy marination with which the juicy flavor was oozing out, which made me have the endless bites of it with the chilled beer. What better can be had other than this on a sunny day? I am impressed with the start.

With the heavy meal of starters and the beer, i continued to have the mutton seekh kebab, with rice corn cake and cheesy potato, along side with the grilled pineapple. The rcie corn cakes were soft and the batter was very soft and melted in my mouth, with an accompaniment of green sauce, with which it went amazingly good. The seekh kebab was dry and the moisture was less, but it was rectified as soon as possible and was served again with the necessary input from the chef. I liked it this time. The cheesy potato was soggy and the cheese was more of a chili garlic mayo and was tangy. I liked it. The grilled pine apple was one of the best starters i have ever seen and this stand among my all time favorite. I can eat them all day with out any break. The cinnamon coating on the outer side of the pine apple with a hint of white pepper will make you drool over this dish.

The main course was decent and i had butter chicken, veg biryani, AB's spl dal and curd rice. The butter chicken was decent but it was not the same butter chicken in which the chicken was not grilled/tandoor. The grilled flavor was missing, but the taste was excellent with the fine smooth texture. The veg biryani was more of awadhi type and it was decent with not much oil in it. The veggies were well cooked with masala on board. AB"S spl dal was made in dal makhni way with rajma and chana touch to the dal, which made it have the rich texture and the consistency. I liked it.

Among the desert platter, i liked the angoori gulab jamoon, mango cheese cake , ras malai. The ras malai, was good with the taste and the texture. gulab jamoon were small, but amazingly sweet.

With my personal server, pinaki, he made me available what ever i wished and what ever i wanted. I was pampered all the way and was teased with some jokes and was taken care in almost all the ways, where i left the feeling that i was having a solo lunch. Even after paying my bill, pinaki denied the tip and he asked me to take his name when ever i am around and he would be at my service and will treat me like his guest. This truely is the gesture of a hospitality industry and i was floored by the behavioral etiquette and their responsibility towards the customer, makes every one happy and a long lasting memory has been already imprinted in my mind.

With a thumbs-up to this place. Singing off.

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Aam -e-khaas

Khandani rajdhani...ek food parampara...this restaurant is known for its Rajasthani and Gujrati flavors in their food and their typical feeding spoon service. Apart from that, yesterday, when they invited some of us ( food Bloggers) for their ongoing Aamalicious) a festival of mango based dishes in their menu. 

When i got an invite, i got bored with the mango for the season and i though max they would shell out some aam ras along with some roti.. But the menu which was posted for the knowledge was way impressive and i was impressed with the dishes they stated out were, mind boggling. I never expected such dishes to be on their menu especially the aam festival has made it possible for me to relish their food. 

The food started with their standard masala chaas, it was very thirst quenching and i am relaxed with that. Then they brought the aam panna, it was a masala mango drink which was also very tangy and sweet, which brought me back to the joy of food. Now i am charged and ready for the food love. 

They served the  sprout salad, cutlet and the dhokla. with some green chutney and red chutney. The djokla was absolute disaster and it had no moisture and softness. The cutlet was no good to me as it was less crunchy and it was not hot. 

Then they came up with the dal bati churma, and the chaat. The dal baati churma was served with ghee and it was good with the churma to have that extra sweetness with the baati and dal. Chat was good and decent. 

Then they served us the vegetables among which i liked the aam ki launji, paneer sopta. They were soft and the flavor was excellent though. The paneer had the right amount of spicy taste which took me for granted and the cabbage was a little bland with no salt.

In dal section, i liked the aam ki kadi, as the dahi and the aam both came together with the blast in the mouth. The sweet dal A.K.A gujrati dal, was also good enough with enough spice in it. The roti was good and the puri which was served was oily and crispy, it got shattered away when i tried to have the sweet dal. 

The kichdhi was good, the bland flavor with little salt is good enough for the veggies to complete with. The jeera rice was served with ghee and it lacked the flavor and was bland. Never liked it though. The pressure in the kitchen was evident. 

The desserts were made in special for the day and they made the mango jalebi, fruit custard,mango lassi. The mango jalebi was a pure heavenly feeling when i had the first bite and i was never down from there till when i relished another one. 

It was so soft and juicy that the mango strip was made to fry with the outer part of the jalebi which was even good. Fruit custard was decent and not a hit for me. 

The legendary aam ras was the king of the show and we had lots of roti with the heavenly combination. It was a pure bliss to mention. The mango lassi was also purely delightful for me to end the meal. It was heavy and too dizzy for me to make a move from my table , as i relished the most heaviest meal on earth. 

With the excellent service, we are happy for the staff and managemnet of Rajdhani for hosting us for the lovely evening and hope they will continue their consistency in terms of the food at all times during the festival. 

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