Italian Food in Bangalore!

After cooking for so many days, Joh Jiun and his colleague, Gan took me out for an Italian dinner two days ago. It's nothing special, but, in Bangalore? Another surprise for me!

It gave me another shock when I reached the restaurant. The interior of the restaurant is quite impressive. It's very modern inside. The servers are all neatly dolled up. The restaurant was quite crowded.

We were seated down and started looking at the menu. There were so much food from appetizer to main course, and... yummy, DESSERTS!! I actually doubted the food quality (my bad, I know!) and ordered something real simple, seafood spaghetti. Joh Jiun ordered veggie pasta and Gan had pasta with Salmon.

Before serving our main course, we were served with bread on a wood platter. There were French bread (french??? yes.), basil leaves, garlic, olive oil and balsamic on a wood platter. Honestly, I was impressed with the presentation of the starter. I like the wood platter. Normally, Italian restaurant serves warm and soft bread with olive oil and balsamic vinegar. This was something different.

(Sorry for the bad photography here....I forgot to bring camera. Guess phone camera will do... my bad!)

So, the server showed us how to start with the stuffs on the platter. First, you'll need to *rub* the raw garlic on the bread until the surface of the bread is cover by the garlic. Then, *rub* the basil leaves on it till the surface of the bread becomes greeny. Hmm...it's very appetizing because aroma of the garlic and basil was strong as you *rub* onto the bread. Becareful, not too hard because you'll break the bread! haha...Oh...I haven't finish. Subsequently, you can add in salt and pepper on the bread and finally, the olive oil. Hmmm...It's delicious especially when you dip in the balsamic vinegar. I'm going to try this at home when I go back to KL. I love trying new thing.

As I was enjoying the starter, I observed around. There were many Indian diners that night. Apart from the poverty in India, there're many rich people in India as you can see most of them are living in luxury. Restaurants are growing like mushrooms here, in Bangalore. Also, the city is modern, in the sense of their standard of living, big malls, good hospital, etc. I'll tell about the hospital in another blog.

So, when the food came, it smelled good. We digged in and whoa...it was yummy! Just a bit oily but acceptable. The taste is there. The Spaghetti was cooked just right - not too soft or hard. Just nice. Seafood is quite fresh - the mussel taste a bit weird, shrimps are alright. Thing I like pastas is the parsley and spaghetti. I love to put a lot of parsley and I just love the combination of it.

The portion of the food in Bangalore is quite big. So, we missed the desserts. However, the desserts looked good behind the glass. I'm going to try them next time! ;-p