Konkani

Description:

A very unassuming restaurant. Decent but not very upmarket. The food though is very good and cheap. Try the thalis. The Surmai was really good and fresh.

Description: Located near Airoli Naka this bar and restaurant has spacious seating, nice ambiance, cheap booze and good inexpensive food. We had the following

Prawns Koliwada	Surmai Anjuna Fry

The Prawns Koliwada was not too great. Tasted more like prawns bhajiya. The Surmai Anjuna Fry was interesting. It had a taste of methya (methi dana). This was followed by

Mutton Hara Sukka	Goan Fish Gravy

The Mutton Hara Sukka was good and could have been excellent if it they hadn't served it dripping with oil. The Goan Fish Gravy tasted like a standard Surmai Gassi. Hard to mess up and tastes great with rice. The drinks are quite cheap at about 125 a quarter of Fuel Vodka. One of the few decent places currently if one wants to have inexpensive drinks with decent food and good ambiance in Airoli.

Description:

A Konkani restaurant in Kormangala which serves fresh seafood.

We had the following:

- Prawns Butter Pepper Garlic which were excellent. Large juicy prawns.

- Mussles Spicy Fry which was a bit overcooked or burnt.

- Surmai Fry - Just perfectly made

- Mangalorean Fish Curry - Good.

- Chicken Ghee Roast - Not bad but it felt more like a punjabi chicken kabab dish rather then what I tend to compare Chicken Ghee Roast to wiz the one served at Shetty Lunch Home in Kundapur where you order it an hour in advance and it comes spicy and dripping of ghee. The one at Kubay could have used a bit more methi, red chilli and ghee.

- Sannas - Rice Idlis which were nice.

While I was there I saw a lot of Bombay and Maharashtrian folks there which is not surprising cause you get great seafood in Kubay like Apurva, Mahesh, Bharat, Trishna etc in Bombay so this must be a place of nostalgia for a Bombayite which is exactly what I was feeling although I had only left Bombay a week ago.

Few cons.

- It doesn't have a bar. That would have really rocked :)
- It appears to be more of a afternoon place as most seafood was run out by 2PM.
- The service is decent but they could be friendlier. Somehow one got the feeling they were in some hurry to run out of the restaurant.

Conclusion: A must visit place if you are a seafood and konkani cuisine lover.