Geoffrey's

Apr 02, 2008

Inconsistent at best

Naheed, Kiranjit and I decided to step over to Geoffreys for a quick lunch yesterday. Based on my last experience there [sunday buffet brunch and beer], I was only too happy to recommend the place. I wouldn’t do so readily today.

Lets talk about the environment first. Service was fast, friendly, efficient anf thoughtful. The ambience was quite normal, what with their particular brand of music playing in the background. The temperature could have been a bit on the warmer side, but thats ok I guess. Also, the suspended televisions had horribly noisy reception. And oh, they really ought to fix those shaky tables.

Coming to the food - we ordered a Geoffreys mixed grill, grilled lamb chops, classic chicken steak and a non vegetarian mezze platter. The mezze platter was absolutely excellent and was served with muttabbal, tabouleh and hummus. The hummus could have been a little thicker, but the flavor was right. Full points for that. We enjoyed every morsel.

The mixed grill however, was *all* fried with nothing grilled in it and badly fried at that - everything was soaked in oil. The lamb chops themselves were fine - the brown sauce however, was a total disaster. First it arrived congealed and barely warm; secondly the chef had obviously thrown in those readily available mixed herbs into the mixture and hadn’t bothered to wait before serving. result: a prickly, scratchy and uneatable sauce. The chicken steak too arrived barely warm and the sauce here too wasn’t worth eating. The bread was old, dry and disintegrated into crumbs on being touched with a fork.

In short - everything except the mezze platter was junk.

Conclusion: Go if you must, but stick to the beer, buffet and mezze | meal for 2: INR 1,100 [no alcohol]


Sid
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