Flame And Grill

I was in kolkata for a few days during my vacations and as planned I went to some new places so that I could write about them

For lunch I went to flame a grill, a part of the specialty group of restaurants which include mainland china and oh Calcutta. This restaurant serves preset buffet consisting of kebabs for starters, a completely Indian main course and desserts.

Ambience

The ambience is cool and beautiful but the restaurant is often very busy so it tends to become a bit loud. Serene lighting and open kitchen with non stop working chefs adds to the beauty of the restaurant.

So from my side

3 stars

Food

For starters they served us chicken peshwari tikka, mutton seekh kebab and fish tikka. We were very disappointed; the kebabs were very dry and chewy. The chicken tikka was hard and lacked seasoning and marination. The fish was chewy, and a touch over cooked. The mutton was actually worse; the pieces of seekh kebab didn’t hold and was flaky and slightly chewy.

Overall a through disappointment

For main course we had murgh biryani, prawn stew, mutton curry along with assorted breads and paneer khurchana.  The main course was average. The biryani was actually good, light and tasty. With good flavours made it the best of the day. The mutton curry was actually very delicious. It was slightly spicy and had depth in flavours and pieces of mutton were succulent and well seasoned.  The prawn stew was too salty for my taste, this made it almost inedible.

The combination of paneer and naan was good but lacked the zing to be a brilliant dish.

I would give it

2 stars

The desserts were very good. The mousse was light, sweet and beautifully balanced with the bitter chocolate taste. The raita was good and slightly spicy which suited my taste. The rice kheer (payesh) was also very good; not too sweet and a smooth texture of the rice made it the best of the day.

So I would give it

Overall I would give them

2/5 stars

Service

The service was good, the food was served quickly, the waiters were quick to serve the kebabs, and the beverages. They were patient to take the specific instructions.

So overall the restaurant is not up to the standard of the other specialty restaurants and I would suggest giving it a miss.