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Air Conditioned
Breakfast
Breakfast Buffet
Cards Accepted
Dinner
Games
Locally Popular
Lunch
Non Smoking
Non-Vegetarian
Outdoor Seating
Party Booking
Restrooms
Takeout
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Full Service
AllDays
11:30 AM - 11:30 PM
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Restaurant Description:
From the 'Boca Grande' website: "We're the place to meet, greet and eat. We bring together good and tasty food, fun and games and a great place to chill. We have an in-house dress boutique too! Whether it's a casual unwind session or just some time away from the rush, we're you're ticket." |
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6/19/2009 1:00:37 PM
Reviewed By:andromeda
"The affordable lazy hang-out"
‘Boca Grande’ translates to ‘Great Mouth’ in Spanish, so you know they have a sense of humour. Yet the place turned out different than I expected – sparser and murkier and, let’s say, ‘trendier’. Having heard good things about it and craving some sustenance I arrived here (not that there’s any dearth of good eateries around Koramangala).
It looks like a big house turned into food joint: A colourful sign leads through a gate into a bright and relaxed patio seating with filigree awning, then one enters through a doorway plugged with sassy posters, past the ice-cream and dessert display (a smart welcome indeed), up a few stairs to what I thought to be a surprisingly dimly lit and bare, almost office-cafeteria type seating (interjected thankfully with some artsy posters).
Then one notices a stairway leading up to another seating zone – This one is brighter with walls opening into verandahs and colourful albeit somewhat dull and rigid couches.
Taking one of these couches, I flipped through the menu, also colourful with tongue-in-cheek interpolations (reminding me of ‘Café Mocha’) and in vogue with the food and drink: Euro/American style soups, appetizers, salads, subs, sandwiches, burgers, crepes, pizzas, main-dishes like pastas and casseroles and fish ‘n’ chips, roast chickens, steaks; myriad shakes, frapes, soda pops, smoothies and coolers, hot beverages, many desserts and a two-page ice cream sundae list.
I dove head first into the shakes and vetoed the fruit shakes and Kitkat and Toblerone shakes for an indulgent ‘Chocolate Malt Cake Shake’ (Rs. 80) recommended by the server. However, the whipped cream and chocolate flakes on top beat the shake which was much too mild – more liquid and less chocolate, the cake being just soggy crumbs at the bottom.
Next, a prolonged peruse through the extensive food list, and I took the easy way out by ordering a usual sort of thing (for me) – a ‘Cottage Cheese Lasagna’ (Rs. 125), and a ‘BG’s Iced Tea’ (Rs. 40). Then, realizing the table I was at was too low to eat, I moved to a bench seat on a balcony, the table of which had crosswords and sudokus under its glass top.
The lasagna was, unfortunately a disappointment: so very Indianised, like a masala curry with meager bits of pasta and my hopes of some gooey cottage cheese being dashed by solid cubes of paneer.
The iced tea, however, was really very good.
One can see how this place attracts the droves: It’s laid back almost to the point of being slack so the young and restless can lounge about here all day without being prodded and get a tasty morsels and drinks without getting ripped off.
* Avg. drink-bite-dessert two: ~Rs. 500
* Official website: www.bocagrande.in
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