How to dine in Bangalore

Well, not exactly dine, but „How to lunch in Bangalore“ sonds quite a little bit starge. This Sunday, we went to the Leela Palace for brunch. We includes me and the other residents of the SAP guesthouse. It should be mentioned that the Leela Palace is a five-star hotel and about the best place one can stay in Bangalore – that is, if one is able to pay for it, with prices ranging from 250 Euros per night upwards.

As expensive as it might be, going for brunch there is affordable for 1000 Rs (20 Euros) at the Zen, the Asian restaurant in the Leela Palace. 20 Euros might not sound much, but keep in mind that you usually get a very good meal for about 300 to 400 Rupees, so 6 to 8 Euros. The menu included every food one can find in Asia. It starts with a sushi bar with a length of about 10m. A nice starter are chargrilled meat sticks, with a choice of pork, beef, chicken, mutton, and prawn.

It continues with other asian food, which you can combine yourself and which is then prepared in front of your eyes by a chef with some artistic talents, throwing around his spices and having his instruments perform a dance on the stove. All kinds of chinese, japanese, korean, and mongolian! And the dessert….. Ice cream, caramel pie, fruits (with a choclate fountain to coat them) … you name it, they got it. And of course there was the whole range of indian food 🙂 And in case you ever go there, a little insider hint: The cocktails are included!

We finished the afternoon (after all, we spent more than three hours eating there) with a coffee at Barista, which is a chain of coffee shops. I am sure that I will go there again!