Sundays are the days meant to sit back, relax and spend quality time with family. Since I work day and night on weekdays, I sometimes decide not to cook during the weekends. Oh yes! I work Day and night. Day time in my office doing my software job and night time on my blog and at my home and I love doing this. Every Sunday we eat out. Similarly on last Sunday we decided to visit “My Place” at Movenpick Hotel and Spa on BEL road for brunch. Brunch?? Ok, it’s (B)reakfast + L(unch) and yes, it was Father’s day too. So I thought I should make my hubby feel special too.
I was invited for a review last year too for the Parsi food festival there. But comparing last year and this year the food and service has completely improved. I was actually impressed by the wide spread of dishes. I could not decide where to start from.
They had almost everything on the menu. Salads, juices, live chat counter, live pancake and waffle counter, live fish grill, live noodle counter, live dimsum counter and believe me even live pasta counter and lot more.
They had almost everything on the menu. Salads, juices, live chat counter, live pancake and waffle counter, live fish grill, live noodle counter, live dimsum counter and believe me even live pasta counter and lot more.
Ambiance:
The ambiance at “My Place” is bright and cheerful. There were live cooking counters at most of the places. There were tables set even outside "My Place" to accommodate all the guests visiting Movenpick. The menu was spread across the entire restaurant. There was live band which played nice melodies.
Apart from this, a separate section was especially dedicated to the kids with a special kids menu. There were people who were even monitoring the kids there. I left my daughter at the kids section where she got busy with a lady who taught her to make a card for father’s day. I and my spouse could enjoy the brunch while the kid happily enjoyed herself in the kids section with the kids menu.
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| Kids activity area |
Service:
The service was excellent. There were lots of staff and they kept a watch on every guest and attended to them when needed. Whenever I went to the live counter, I ordered the dish I wanted and they would get the food to my table. I did not have to stand and wait for them to cook the dish for me. Just order and go and the dish would arrive at my table. They gave a good service. All the plates were being cleared immediately. The dishes were also being re-filled promptly and I did not have to wait for any dish.
Food:
Food is the USP of any restaurant. I must say that I am impressed with the food at Movenpick. I loved the food here and compared to my last visit this place has considerably improved in quality of food as well as quantity. There were 250 different dishes on the menu. Yes it was a huge buffet with scrumptious delicacies all hand-crafted by the chef.
Now let me take you through a photo tour of what all I ate there and which all dishes I loved.
We started with chats. There were several types of chats like Pani Puri, ragda patis, masala puri, sev puri, bhel puri, dhokla, jalebi and even keema pav.
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| Chat conter |
I tasted Masala puri and Pani Puri and loved them.
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| Masala Puri |
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| Pani Puri |
A special mention to the crispy jalebis. We loved them.
Hubby loved the keema pav.
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| Kheema Pav |
After the chats, I ordered fruit punch and hubby ordered fresh lime soda.
After settling down for a while, we thought of trying sushi. My daughter loves sushi. We tasted the veg and prawn sushi which were good.
Followed by sushi, we tried the dimsums which were of various types like chicken dimsum, prawns dimsum and veg dimsum. Just loved to eat the hot steamy dimsums with the various sauces.
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| Dimsums and Inari |
Meanwhile the kid went to the children’s section and got busy with her art. The kid’s activity area had a separate menu like mini pizzalites, chicken nuggets, veg and jam sandwiches, potato smileys, French fries, noodles and pastries. Also chocolate milkshakes and fresh fruit juices were served in small bottles.
Meanwhile hubby found the live fish grill. Here you can select whichever fish you want and ask them to grill it for you.
We ordered seer fish fry which was delicious.
We ordered seer fish fry which was delicious.
There were different types of freshly cut fruits, salads and several types of freshly extracted juices at the salad counter. Salads like egg with tomato on lemon and coriander dressing, chicken and mushroom with mayonnaise dressing, spicy grapefruit prune with crab stick, blanched pok choy with sweet corn salad, roasted bell pepper with squid balsamic dressing, apple waldrof salad, kimchi salad, trio colour pasta salad, pickled red cabbage with raisin and more were served.
I also ordered pancakes with banana and choco chips for my daughter from the live pancake counter. The pancakes were excellent. Kid loved it.
And if you love dosa, they served dosa too with different types of chutneys.
Shawarma counter and live noodle bar was also present.
There was a live pasta counter where the chef was making pasta from scratch.
The Italian dishes especially lasagna were present too. I loved the lasagna.
Veg and non-veg pizza were present. I wish they were bit hot. But when I tasted them, it was not bad.
Veg and non-veg pizza were present. I wish they were bit hot. But when I tasted them, it was not bad.
Chicken tandoori and grilled fish were served too.
Indian starters like this achari paneer tikka (pickle and yogurt marinated cottage cheese cooked in clay oven), vegetable shami kabab (deep fried mashed vegetable galette), masala tawa machi (spice marinated fish cooked on griddle) and Jaituni chicken tikka(chili and yogurt marinated chicken cooked in clay oven) were also served. Loved both veg and non-veg Indian starters.
We sat for sometime and chit chatted and then we decided to go for the main course. Oh there were variety of dishes in veg too like Singaporean vegetable noodles, Asian vegetable in hot garlic sauce, mix vegetable in fine herb sauce, beans usali (beans cooked with grated coconut and curry leaves), aloo gobi simlamirch (potato, capicum and cauliflower cooked with whole spices), palak paneer (cottage cheese cooked in spinach gravy), avial (mix vegetable cooked with yogurt and coconut paste), Sabnam curry(mushroom cooked in onion and tomato gravy), cannelloni Neapolitan, steamed rice, dal panchamel (five types of lentil stew tempered with cumin and chili) and curd rice.
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| Veg main course |
Various dishes like Shanghai chicken fried rice, grilled fish, Malabar meen curry(fish cooked in spicy tamarind curry), Kadai varuval ( quail cooked with roasted coconut and whole spices), Murg Patiala( chicken cooked in onion, tomato and whole spices), Congee crispy lamb, stuffed chicken with mushroom jus and Coorg pandi curry(traditional Karnataka style pork preparation from Coorg region) were present in non-veg main course.
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| Non-veg main course |
Biryanis like veg biryani, chicken biryani and ghost biryani was served with 3 different types of raita.
Fruit raita, vegetable raita and plain raita.
Fruit raita, vegetable raita and plain raita.
There were some cold cuts and cold fish too.
The food was really good and at the end I was completely full. Still I had place for some desserts. There were 25 International mouth-watering desserts and 10 Indian selections. I tasted some desserts. Loved the tiramisu and black forest pastry.
In Mango fiesta section people could taste the different types of mangoes too.
My verdict:
Value for money.
All the dishes were excellent with lots of options in veg and non-veg section.
Go there on an empty stomach and eat like a king.
My Rating: 4.5/5
Cost per head:
Food without alcohol - Rs.1500 +tax
Food with IMFL drinks - Rs. 2100 + tax
Food with Champagne - Rs. 2900 + tax
For kids - Rs.750 + tax
Cost per head:
Food without alcohol - Rs.1500 +tax
Food with IMFL drinks - Rs. 2100 + tax
Food with Champagne - Rs. 2900 + tax
For kids - Rs.750 + tax
Address:
Mövenpick Hotel & Spa Bangalore,
115, Gokula Extension, HMT Road (near BEL circle),
New BEL Road, Bangalore