Recently got a dinner invite at Moby Dick to sample some of the good food from their revamped menu.
Excited, I reached this quaint little cafe style restaurant across 2 levels in Koramangala. As with any place in Koramangala, there is trouble with parking anything which has got 4 wheels on it, however the restaurant staff were kind enough to help & sort it out.
Before that, the decor caught my attention, those double height ceiling with the two large chandeliers, hanging Edison lights, adds a lot to the rustic charm to the cafe like ambiance. Most importantly keeps the place well lit & Instagram friendly.
But don’t let the cafe style decor fool you, the menu is quiet expansive, ranging from Indian, Italian, to Indonesian & Thai. Not to mention their, long dessert & drinks menu. I did wonder, how much they can churn out of their little open kitchen that I was staring at.
There is only one way to find out, we started ordering, and I begin with an Tiramisu Cold Frappe. There was a mild flavour of hazelnut, that made the coffee delicious, but could not much relate to a liquid tiramisu though. It definitely was tasting great & was popular among the others in the group that tasted it.
For starters, we ordered the highly recommended Signature Garlic Bread, which was a whole thin crust pizza baked as a garlic bread, which is a little unusual, in this part of the world. The thin layer of cheese on the thin crust, encrusted with garlic & some peppers. Perfectly cooked & crusted, was delicious & disappeared in seconds.
The Mac N Cheese Samosa was an American twist to our humble samosas, tasted wonderful with the accompanied sauce, the best part the Mac N Cheese intact within the samosa’s flaky crust.
For mains, with the various options I could not decide between Italian & Thai, and our friendly host Sakhi came to my rescue. While I ordered a Fettuccine Pasta with Wild mushrooms in a peppercorn cream sauce, she helped me order a small bowl of Thai Green Curry sample | Vegetarian Version, minus the rice.
While we had customised the Pasta to be a little creamy, the wild mushroom flavours were beautifully mellowed by the sauce, with the fettuccine perfectly cooked. Kind they say, the proof is in the pudding, here we looked at an empty bowl in seconds, if not minutes. The accompanied garlic bread was better than the signature garlic bread that we sampled before. Our only complaint was, there wasn’t more of them served.
Once my Thai Curry sample arrived, it just grabbed everybody’s attention, & I was in Thai Heaven when I tasted the curry. It was as good as you would get in an authentic Thai Restaurant, if not better. This definitely led to an ad hoc ordering of another proper portion with rice. I must admit, it was one of the best I had in a long long time.
For Desserts I wanted to have the a Tiramisu, which unfortunately was on demand & had gotten over. So opted to try the restaurant’s recommendation, the Hazelnut Chocolate Mousse. I am indebted to these guys for suggesting this, it was the best dessert I have had in recent times. For someone like me, who isn’t very fond of desserts, with a very few preferences, Chocolate Mousse is like an obsession. To keep me interested in a chocolate Mousse is kind of difficult, cause so far in Bangalore, there are just two places which managed to make me like their Mousse. And honestly Moby Dick is going to be the third, am not sure if it’s the beautifully aerated but firm Mousse, was it the hazelnut touch, or the rice crispies in-between, without much exaggeration, it was just PERFECT.
The Salted Caramel Cheesecake was another masterpiece, not to be missed.
Code of Ethics
I was invited by Moby Dick to sample their new revamped menu offering in exchange for my honest feedback & review.
To stress again, I did not pay for the meal, but that did not influence my review nor did it generate any bias. I hope some of my constructive feedback helps them to exceed what is already wonderful food & excellent service.
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