Hiral Amodia (www.theheebee.com)
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WHAT THEHEEBEE SAYS ABOUT VILLAGE THE SOUL OF INDIA
Note: I visited the Village restaurant before the corona crisis. This review is based on that visit.
Village - The Soul Of India is a restaurant located on the sixth floor of Central Mall, J P Nagar. It is situated at a walking distance from the popular Ragigudda Temple. I would say that this is the perfect use of the place that one could have done right in the middle of a chaotic and busy locality of Bangalore.
The village is truly a 'village' themed restaurant and I appreciate the promoters who have ensured that the ambiance and experience would look as close to village life as possible. They have a big artificial banyan tree right in the center where people can sit. The table and chairs have been made artistically from most humble and simple things. A horse cart, small shacks, etc light up the ambiance further. Astrologer, air-rifle counter, puppet show, etc adds to the charm.
There is a fixed cost per head and all food and beverages are unlimited once you are inside.
Food mostly consists of Rajasthani and Gujarati cuisine along with North Indian dishes and some native South Indian 'must-have' dishes like curd rice, sambar, rasam, etc. Food counters are spread across the premises and that makes all the counters free of the rush. Chaat counter seemed to be the most favorite of all the guests. They have also made a small 'jail' like enclosure which is again a big attraction among guests. The buffet is the only option here and you have hours at your disposal to enjoy the food and experience. Food was good in taste, but this place is more about enjoying the overall experience than the food.
Once the majority of guest has arrived, the staff would start interesting activities like - musical chair, dance, Garba, ghoomar Rajasthani dance, juggling, etc
I feel that this is a perfect place to visit with a group of friends or family members. It is a good place to organize small parties. Bigger the group, more fun would be at Village - the soul of India.
Signing Off
Hiral Amodia
(TheHeeBee)
I loved sweet special gulab jamun. I loved bhel Puri and Pani Puri. Food is avarange. everything was also good. service was good.
Best place for a large group of people! Such a wonderful place. The ambience was rustic. The staff is excellent! They are sweet and made sure we were having fun.The whole thing was very entertaining there was a puppet show followed by Rajasthani folk dance, Dandia,musical chair and DJ hour. Everyone from the old to the young ones participated and it was an amazing experience. There was a wide variety of tasty food. All in all a great place to wind down with family and/or friends.worth every penny.
Good for a family get together. Enjoy your time with unlimited food and fun.
Food was good and specially cheese ball mini samosa khichdi and you can enjoy folk dance musical chair garba dandiya
Mohammad and shree kumar-Hotel Managers are simply amazing... Had come here for team dinner, and we were treated very well !!♥♥♥😀😀😀
We were happy nice experience over all. Very helpful mr mohd mukeem awesome place to enjoy with family over all nice experience
It's a great place to be around
Good music, food, service, staff
Ambience is good.
Cheers to Mohammad 👍🏽
Awesome ambience. Dj puppet show was nice. people out there were so polite and humble. Celebrated my niece 1st year birthday and i think we made a right choice at last moment.
Best place to spend time with family
This place actually makes me feel nostalgic about my childhood time. the environment is kind of a village ceremony time. the best thing about the place was the puppet show, dance show and they even involve the guests also which was really good. it was like they are so welcoming that they want the guests to have a good and lot of time in the restaurant. i really liked the concept.
if we talk about food is was pretty good and fresh. i felt that the options in snacks and starters are too less. they could also increase the number of dessert.
i would love to visit the place again but they should really work on the number of items in starters, snacks and desserts.
i gave four because the food whatever they had was good and loved the time i spent at that place.
This restaurant is there from quiet a long time now and recently they have revamp ambiance and food. They are famous for Rajasthan and north Indian foods. Need to pay money before entering into dining area. There will be stalls like salads, chats, thandai, starters, tandoori, desserts and many more. Nice place for kids to hangout for games and entertainment they arrange.
This place is wonderful! Reasonably priced, courteous staff, super tasty (only Veg) food with a variety of options to chose from! They even have entertainment arranged for the guests like puppet show, games, dance, temporary tattoo artist and so on. The interiors are designed to ape a village and it's pretty unique. They've reused a lot of metal from vehicles and automobiles to decorate the place. It's impressive :)
I am surprised to see just a low review for this place . The prices are affordable and the intermix of culture is brilliant. I have been here twice , once just with my cousin and second time on new years with friends and it didn't disappoint me at all. The Variety in food is good and the ambiance is bewitching. Perfect place for photo enthusiasts like me.They also have puppet show for the kids and they play dandiya in the end. Must go
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This rating is not only based on food, it includes the experience which you gain when you visit the restaurant. This place offers not only food but also entertaining acts, folk dance and fun games.
The restaurant is located on the top floor of JP Nagar Central Mall. The setup is more like local village but clean and neat with sufficient seating. They welcomed us with Jal Jeera/ Orange juice/ Masala Chass in small glasses. Jal Jeera was slightly salty but other two were perfect.
The buffet has wide variety of dishes- salads, chats, appetizers, fried items, North Indian main course, live counters and desserts. The reviews differed from every person, as few items were not as expected.
Starting with vegetable salad, it was well marinated but it was not fresh or was made way to early. All vegetables were dull and soggy.
Chaats on the other hand were good; Hot, freshly made and tangy as it has to be.
In Appetizers we liked only Pan fried momos. Fried paneer crisps, soya chaap (more like soya tikki) and honey Chilli Potatoes were surprisingly not as expected. It didn't taste as it was named.
Without any delay we moved to the main course and started with some North Indian curries and hot tandoor rotis. The best part was the rotis or Kulchas, which was being prepared hot and served as required. Jhodpuri Aloo and Baingan Bharta were the two dishes which were in limelight. Methi mutter, Paneer Lazeez, Panchratan Dal and Punjabi Chole were just ok.
In rice Veg Biryani surprised us. It had good flavors Making us not to comment on it. They also had Bisi Bele bath, which was not really it. Regular white rice n rasa were also turn down.
Coming to dessert section, Gulab Jamun (dry n regular ones) both were soft and delicious! On the other hand rasgulla was rubbery and hard
Our suggestions to management-
- Bisi Bele bath should be changed to some other dish or remake it in a better way.
- Even veggies and salads can be made as and when required.
- Honey Chilli Potatoes need more of chilli and honey.
If you are planning to go with your family then this is an apt place!
Do try this place and let us know your thoughts and feedbacks!
Cheers!! #BurpOutLoudly
This is a cozy place. Restaurant has a theme of Rajasthani village.
Good place to visit there with family and friends. We took buffet service here. It has ample items to fill our tummy with good taste.
Both vegetarian and non vegetarian menu was available.
For children some playing place and accommodation is here. Over all I enjoyed my time with my friends there with variety of foods.
It is an excellent place for dine, dance, entertainment and excitement for family with kids and group of friends with family who love vegetarian and fun. It is placed on the 6th floor at Bangalore Central Mall at J P Nagar, Bangalore. The ambience is good and a theme of a village is artistically created. There are fun games like puppet show, gun shoot on balloons, tattoo stall, make up room with artificial wig, astrology prediction, jumping balloons for kids, paan stall, Rajasthani folk dance, dance floor, musical chair and variety of snacks and food in veg. So, in all your family and friends can enjoy unlimited food and timing from 6pm to 10.30 PM. We had really good time so I would really recommend others to enjoy this unique environment.
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As the name of the place suggests, they are completely designed keeping the village theme in mind. I honestly loved the ambience. They have separate sections, a khatki section for seating, space in between where most activities happen, separate area for kids to play, a bouncy castle, and plenty of live counters.
Food & Drinks:
It’s a really good place for vegetarians. They have varieties from chaats, to tandoor, some Chinese variety, and lots of desserts. It’s very interesting how they’ve placed everything perfectly. There’s a theka section where they serve chaas, orange juice and jaljeera. The spread is pretty good too.
I personally loved the baingan ka bharta with their fresh tandoor rotis. Their spread varies from time to time. Definitely recommend this to people who’d love to have a good time with fun activities and have a buffet spread. Definitely have candy floss, and pop corn as well. They have a pan booth at the exit.
Service and activities:
Since most of everything served here is self service, there isn’t much to talk about service. But they have lots of fun activities, they play musical chairs, they have a couple of shows by people, garba and dandiya as well. It’s super fun for sure.
Head over to the village for good food and a great time!
Pretty good place for family outing and food and fun. With various themed counters, kids and elders can enjoy the puppet show, garba, Dandiya dance and makeovers. Recommended for birthday and anniversary celebrations.
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Village is a themed restaurant which is located on the 6th floor of Bangalore Central-JP Nagar. As the name suggests, Village blissfully displays true soul of India. Being a themed restaurant, the Village represents an actual village setting of the northern India.
Coming to the ambience, they have totally revamped the interiors and made it way brighter than it was earlier. Some of the highlights of these interiors are the old Village styled pushing carts for chat, popcorn and cotton candy, the tent style sitting areas.
Coming to the food part, Village serves some really good North-Indian food except for one thing, that is Dosa and Bisibelebath. Basically you start of with pineapple sharbhat, chas or Jaljeera. Then I shifted to my favorite part of the buffest, the chats, panipuri, dahi papdi chatcare a must try, but some how the portion of the dahi papdi chat served was small, as it's a buffet you should take another serving.
Coming to the main course, tried their Butter Kulcha ,dal tadka, baingan bartha, paneer curry , Kulcha was soft and was made fresh in front of your eyes on the tandoor, loved the dal and bartha. They had some Chinese and north-east asian twist given starters, like kajun fries and Momo's in grevy. Coming to the desserts, they have some classics, like gajar ki hallwa, gulanb jamun and rasagulla, the first two were quiet good but the rasagulla I feel was bit to hard for it was meant to be. The milk pudding the phirni was too good, one can eat two servings of it.
The kids have plenty to enjoy here with an air inflated jumping castle they can have their cotton candy and popcorn. There is no less of an entertainment here, the staff is full of energy and have their daily puppet show, musical chairs and also the dandiya sessions when diners are dining. One can spend a couple of bucks more on the astrologer sitting there to know their fortune or to play a shooting game.
Overall Village captures the soul of India with some good food, but being a buffet they have a lot of things to improve, the variety was pretty less, especially in the desserts. They used to have mehendi artists before which were not found this time I went there.
Taste-4.5/5
Quality-4.5/5
Quantity-5/5
Ambience-4/5
Price-4/5
Worth it ? - Yeah, the food is pretty good, if like some good entertainment with some real good north Indian food, Village is the place to be.
Whether I would visit them again ? - Yes, but I feel they could improve.
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