Saturday evening. We were in commercial street , bangalore . My wife got hunger pangs. I told her we will go to the Punjabi Dhaba near the Gurdwara . I used to frequent it when i was bachelor . My wife being north Indian , i was sure she would like the punjabi food over there. We reached there and found a huge crowd waiting for table already. We didnt had patience to wait for our turn . So we started from there towards Indranagar undecided where to have dinner . My wife told me she was hungry and didnt want to experiment in any new restaurants. While passing CMH road a brightly lit restaurant caught my attention . The name board read ” Mast Kalandar ” I quipped to her , ” Lets try over here ” . She too agreed and we entered the restaurant .
It was not over crowded , had decent family neighbourhood crowd . The immediate impression inside was bright , colourful and neat . Dont expect to straightaway relax and wait for someone to take order . We have to choose from the menu and order it in the counter. Food court style. The menu had intresting names. Parantha combos , Roti combos and Roti chawal combos. Choosing menu is simple – everything comes in combo . so u dont have to break your head for combination of roti / chawal / sabzis. Oh i forget to mention its a Vegetarian restaurant .
We went through the menu and settled for Sinful Paneer Combo and Paneer n Paneer Parantha combo. After making the payment , we went back and settled in our table . I checked the pickle container in the table , it had Garlic pickle. I would have preferred it to be mango or veg pickle . 5 mins . The parnatha combo came first . The combo had 2 Paneer parantha , Dal sabzi , Raitha and little quanity of veg salad. Onion was conspicously absent . My wife said they might be serving Jain food. If they were serving Jain food it would have made better sense they avoided the garlic pickle too.
Well , back to the food Paneer parantha was really good . Paneer was tender and the parantha was tasty. Dal was good but i would have preferred it bit spicy. Raitha was really good. Meanwhile , the other combo ” sinful paneer combo ” too arrived . It had 2 naans , the same dal sabzi , a paneer sabzi , raitha and little quantity of veg salad. The paneer sabzi was little sweet . My wife liked it ( not to mention her sweet tooth)
The food was clean and good . It felt healthy with little oil , quiet filling and light to stomach.
The average price of combos is 85 Rs. Not bad.
Overall , you wont regret stepping in . Definitely light in pocket and stomach . If you are looking for a quick , uncomplicated but decent food , give mast kalandar a try.
We decided we would come again one day and taste another ones of the menu. Ghatte ki Sabzi in the menu had tickled her taste bud to come again ! I have only one complaint : Replace the garlic pickle with any other pickle.
P.s > The neat glass notice board in the corner had newspaper cuttings which says that this is a venture of three techies ( Pallavi , Gaurav Jain and Ganesh ) who quit their IT job to pursue their passion in Kitchen. Brilliant decission indeed , coz their passion and effort that has gone into it sure would attract many foodies to their joints.
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Hey,
Cool and interesting posts on your blog!
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Thanks to you.
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Regards,
Roopa
mmmm….
m drooling already on my keyboard…
n to add in that m damn starving as well… :p
paneer wid paratha… i love it…