Dining out

We went to Sigree the other day. The last time I went there was for my 21st B'day. So I have very special memories associated with that place.

I had recently read some bad reviews about the place, so I was apprehensive about this dinner. But all my worries were put to rest, coz I had a good experience. I mean, I didn't like the main course too much, and thought the desserts weren't too many.. but overall I wouldn't call it bad.

It was the dinner buffet and was set up outside. I thought it would be really cold, but surprisingly that night the temperature was higher than before, so I was okay (even after wearing a skirt). We got a nice table near the buffet spread and I was all set to eat. There was a slight delay in the service, but I couldn't blame them, they were packed. Thank god we had reserved a table. There were so many starters. First we tried only the non-veg: prawns in some kind of red masala, chicken, fish, mutton tikkis. I totally loved the prawns. They were super delicious. The rest was ok. Then we thought of trying out the veg starters as well: paneer tikka (the softest paneer ever), palak tikkis (amazing), bhindi in mustard, tandoori aloo and mushrooms. Their paneer was really very fresh which made it all the more tasty.

After the starters, I thought of heading directly for the desserts, but there I was disappointed. They had just 4 :( I am used to a huge spread of desserts at a buffet but all they had was - gajar ka kheer (milky kheer with some carrot shreds), malpua, some bengali sweet and strawberry ice-cream. Sad ain't it !! But I still some of each and overdid the ice-cream bit. Then I moved on to the main-course. I was happy I had my full of the starters, coz the main course wasn't great. The usual sabzis, chicken, biryani. Nothing unusual and nice.

What I tried new was the 'Sangria.' It was a nice wine cocktail made of red wine, port wine, vodka, pomegranate juice and grapes. It also had tiny pieces of apple. It was real nice and very different from what I usually have.

P.S. I really find it difficult to understand why people get agitated and angry when there is slow service. Unless I was dying of hunger or the waiter was just lazing around, I would never lose my cool. If you are in a jam packed place, you can't really expect him to do much ya. Anyways... thats that !