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Reviewed Tandoor - MG Road - Bangalore

Pukka north indian stuff...

Food = Quite good (taste is quite quite authentic north india, if that's what you are looking for). For a change, the paneer is soft, the saag looks like real saag, and the daal is typical thick maa-rajmah. Other than that, food is more spicy & oily than I'd hv preferred it to be, but then I gue...Read more

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Reviewed Samarkand - Infantry Road - Bangalore

Frontier food. Tad expensive, but lip-smacking gu

Samarkand serves ''Frontier'', i.e. food from Northern Pakistan, bordering Afghanistan. It's named after a station out there, and was once on the Silk Route. Well well well, I am no history buff, but the ''almanac'' style 1 sheet newspaper-of-a-menu you get at the restaurant says all that. &l...Read more

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Elegance and good food, minus the pinch
Desmond's - Lavelle Road - Bangalore

thanks for the encouragement abha. AFAIK, they serve desi khana only, and drinks. We've tried Cafe Y (the place is good, but the service sucks bigtime... my order of dessert took 1hr to arrive!). Also our firangs were quite unlike some other firangs i met earlier. They were very particualr abo...ut hv'ing only Indian food. br, bdRead More

Reviewed Desmond's - Lavelle Road - Bangalore

Elegance and good food, minus the pinch

Desmonds on Lavelle Road, Bangalore is just beside the Mandovi Motors workshop/showroom (Maruti dealers). I had seen the Rs.99/- buffet board hanging for quite a few days, but at first found it to be a bit too cheezy. Finally I got to visit it with few visitors from France (low spice tolerance),...Read more

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Reviewed Philips RS045

Sleek, jazzy, nice... if it works

I must admit that I wasn't really looking around for a FM player when I bought this. I was at a neighbourhood electronics/electrical shop for some other stuff, when a dude came along and asked for this FM-player. The salesman opened the case and started showing it. I was immediately attracted by...Read more

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Now i see, now i don't
ICICI Bank

oops! you are right visgarg, the price is indeed 500-540.

Reviewed Motorola C138

Smart, cheap, basic mobile

Well, after having 2 mobiles stolen and lost 1, I decided to put my money into a real rock-bottom priced phone. Anyway, I'm not a ''latest-n-best'' kind of a guy, and my previous 3 phones were fairly basic too. So I decided to by the Motorola c138. I got it for Rs.1990/- with a free pouch (artif...Read more

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Reviewed ICICI Bank

Now i see, now i don't

Six years back (i.e. around 1999), during my initial years in the job, ICICI was the buzzword. It was a wonderbank. An Indian bank with MNC facilities, look-n-feel. Those were the days when you still had to go to a bank with passbook, get it printed to be updated, had to stand in big queues with...Read more

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Reviewed Angeethi - Museum Road - Bangalore

Not what it used to be...

I first visited Angeethi in Nov'03 for a team lunch. I found the buffet to be quite good. It had a fair spread of vegetarian and non-veg choices, and needless to say North Indian. Since then, over the last 2 years, I must have visited Angeethi atleast 20 times. It used to be the de-facto choice ...Read more

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Reviewed Maruti Suzuki Wagon R

Value for money

Wagon-R LX (i.e. basic model, with AC, but without power-steering), is my second car. My first car being a Hyundai Santro XP (ZXi, but the DXi model, i.e. AC+power-steering etc.). The Santro was the third car in our family, first being a used Fiat, second being a used M800. Actually, I'd not hav...Read more

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