Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Bombay Blue - Nungambakkam

You asked for it.. wannabe cream centre!

Upon invite to the Bombay Blue restaurant as they did on an effort to disprove my review on chennai.burrp.com, i went there for lunch with 2 of my friends. The food is on the house now that didnt make them think i ll come bak to review a 5 star here i hope. Before i forget to mention, the service has gone down already, the more the crowd the less they care about the customers, to the extent that they forget the invitees waiting for 30 mins (although reservation was made) and ask us politely if we need reservation! uh what? and yea the waiters stopped jumping at you (the rosy days were too short i guess) but now they start forgetting your drinks and compel you to order something else, wen u want something else! Some waiters dont even know the name of the dish they are serving, the guy brought us cheese amigos n said here are ur fish sticks! (we were 3 veggies at the table with a 'whaaaat?' on our face). Okay, lets taste the food now and try to forgive the service ...

Soup

Italian tomato - big white bowl - little soup in the bottom
we needed some croutons
'bread for the soup plz' - 'yes ma'm'
'excuse me we asked for some bread cubes' - 'sure ma'm'
'hello? our soup is getting cold' - we get nothing but a smile with a are-u-talking-to-me look!

Appetizers

Onion rings - no salt in tha batter compensated with chat masala on top! is that bombay isthyle????????
Nachos (a speciality here) - not available!
Mezze platter - soft pita bread, bad hummus, some tomato gravy indian style, good ranch
Cheese amigos - probably the only edible item in the menu we had to fill outselves with. (mozerrella-stick-looking jalepeno poppers)

Main course

Chenna Batura - No chenna 'shall we serve with paneer?' NO! plz! what do we look like, guinea pigs?
Veggie sizzler - not bad, but hmm personally i have lost my taste for and not gonna order sizzlers anymore anywhere (u mite wanna think its cos of this experience).
Chilli cheese baguette - soft bread but was it baguette?
Cottage cheese chimichanga - i don wnana decribe this particular dish, i might get brutal, wish i cud give less than one star to BB! It was so burnt and tasted of a yr old oil from some local tea shop bajji, oh well i jus said m not gonna talk about it! so shhh!
The penne pasta with red sauce - we were despertely looking fwd to this dish to bring life back to our dead tongues, but it was equally lifeless, flavorless and cold.

Drinks (That came very late since they forgot it the first time)

Lemon ice tea - pushed to a corner after the first sip
Lassi - passable
Cold coffee with icecream - who can make a mistake on this one? hmm.. ok lets say passable too ..
Orange sunshine - wowww!!! the savior of the day,, incredible drink not to miss .. did earn BB the one star!

Desserts

Apple crepe (or watever) - Not available
Peach melba - Not available
Brownie sizzler - typical cream centre material...good nuff
Hot Fudge Nut Sundae - more of vanilla but yea yummy
Malai Kulfi - was good but tooooooo sweet to handle..

If only i was asked to pay for this culinary torture! wouldnt put myself through this even if they pay me next time .. i hope there is not!


Ambiance - 5/5


Service - 2/5


Food - 1/5


Price - shud be around 500 for a couple


Will i ever go back? - Not even in my dreams!

Bombay Blue
College Road,
Nungambakkam, Chennai - 600034
Phone: 044-43596633


Lets forget it as a one-time nightmare!

19 comments:

Baidik said...

I see they made u see blue :p

sansmerci said...

haha.. trust me .. the MD of this place got pissed with my review n flagged this review :P

well the power of pen u kno .. i mean ..errr...the keyboard!

Arundathi said...

thank you! i've been wanting to go - and now i can cross that off my list!

Baidik said...

haha!

On an other note, I'm assisting a friend of mine to come up with a biz plan for his restaurant venture. Cuisines/genre/ideas welcome :)

sansmerci said...

@arundati
there r many other better choices as u kno!

@baidik
oh wow thts a kewl thing to work on :) cusine eh .. i wud say mexican..authentic that is.. missin it big time in chennai..no don ask me to go to don pepe

SR said...

Hey girl! good blog - have jus started playing catch up! I have been to Cedars and Bella Ciao - love the places!

sansmerci said...

thanks SR lookin fwd to ur participation :D

Sukku said...

When I am in Chennai maybe next Jan 09, I should check out some of these places...and I know Chennai is becoming a foodies paradise in India..are you into Japanese food?

sansmerci said...

well to b honest..no Japanese is probably the very few kinda cuisines i dislike maybe cos m a veggie..but i am planning to try out the Japanese restaurants in the city soon!

Praveen Kumar said...

never heard abt this place before and def not going there after this review ;)

sansmerci said...

thanks ..god bless u :P

ck said...

thanks....have added you too....

and about B'Blues.... nice to see this, so there is 1 less place to haunt now :)

sansmerci said...

thnks ck2 :)

Anonymous said...

something says i've to visit sometime soon :)

nice work swarna :)

-Tessie ( am lazy to sign in)

Anonymous said...

:D

sansmerci said...

yea u def shud .. n write a review too :D

Prasad said...

u nailed it!!! itz got really really really bad service!!!

however the non-veg is pretty ok in this place!! the sizzlers are good and the kheema pav is awesome!!! itz not tht bad a plce to get jus one star..i'd giv it a 2.5!

sansmerci said...

mayb the non-vegs good.. but in chennai that doenst work .. u gota treat the veggies lovers even in KFC!

Unknown said...

the list you mentioned in the post looks heavy to me ? did you guys eat all of this ? must be a real foodie :) Also I cant believe a restaurant could be this awful.

 
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