Oct 14, 2010 12:47 PM
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An appealing picture ad on .com, made me reserved a table for two last Sunday evening. The entrance to this place is pretty funny….enter the elevator from one side & exit on the other side.I had seen such elevators only in some Park Chan-Wook movies. The restaurant is on the top most floor spread across 6000 squares…part of it is open seating with a projected screen playing pop videos. We decided to pick seating of our choice as the place was 80% empty, but the manager had other plans for us & was not happy with our choice. His proposal to offer us bean bags in the open space was turned down without a second thought.
Once the seating confusion was sorted out we explored the 3 piece menu(Appetizers, Main course, Drinks). Continental & Chinese is what they serve along with Kingfisher draught beer, regular hard liquor & a few cocktails. Well… to be honest, the C of West marrying the C of East in a food menu is a perfect recipe for disaster. The menu was very basic & gave us very little opportunity to choose. The first order was for a Pitcher of Beer, Virgin Mary along with Caesar salad, French fries & homemade nachos. The waiters were a confused lot & had very little or no information about the offerings, but somehow managed to serve us without delay. The salad was dry, soggy were the fries & the nachos left us with a mild throat inflammation. POB was the usual, but Virgin Mary was deprived of the right Worcestershire- Tobasco mix.
Buffalo wings & mutton ribs were the only bbq offerings at a place whose last name is “Grill” & our devouring appetite for grilled meat ended in a bitter disappointment. The wings were tiny & burnt with an overdose of bbq sauce.with great effort we emptied the plate. The “mutton ribs” to our surprise was extremely overpriced….285 bucks for 3 ribs!.The natural flavor of the meat was over powered by the spicy sauce that tasted more like a cross between bbq & Cantonese sauce. The pricing needs a revision as the quality of food & ambience fail to add value to the overall customer experience.
Soho is a city in the West of London known for its porn film industry & up market restaurants. On the other hand this Soho in Basavangudi is an effort to recreate the lifestyle offered by the former. Did this effort yield fruit? Well, yes…a genetically modified one. How many of us would appreciate it? It’s not for me to decide. Soho Bar & Grill comes across as a “wanna be” kabaddi raider who dozes off while wrestling the opponents to his side.
