Crêpe Connection

A couple of days ago, I'd stepped into Oasis Mall on the inner ring road at Koramangala to buy something for my cousin when my stomach began to send me signals that it was time to pay some attention to it, and so I stepped into the food court. I noticed this stall called Crepe Connection, selling crêpes, a type of pancake that originated in the Brittany region of France.

Preparing the crêpe

Crepe Connection has two types of crêpes, with sweet fillings and savoury. I had a sweet one called November Rain (fancy name - I thought Axl Rose would be playing inside my head as I ate it). This one was filled with apple and demarara sugar and cinnamon, and finally had whipped cream to present the final touch. They also had ones having bananas and chocolate, and seasonal fillings like strawberries and mango. It tasted great, especially the apple-cinnamon combo, although, if my mom was to learn that I paid Rs 70 for one, she'd blow her cool, and my head, saying I'm mad to pay 70 bucks for a glorified, sweet-filled dosa :)

November Rain

However, this is one place that needs to be polished off in the company of Mr P and VP, so another, more elaborate review should be coming soon.

Crepe Connection, Polynation Food Court, Oasis Center Mall, Inner Ring Road, Koramangala (near Sony world junction), Bangalore.

The All American Diner, New Delhi

I'd been to New Delhi from the 26th of June to the 1st of July to attend a friend's wedding there. I also got a chance to meet up with a couple of old school buddies whom I never met after we passed out of school. They'd moved to Delhi after graduating (they aren't engineers, so we didn't meet much during the under grad years). So I went with one of them (although I wish to call him by a name we used to call him back in school, since he was such a great host, I'll stick to his alter ego name, Neo) for breakfast to this place called the All American Diner, nestled nicely inside the India Habitat Centre on Lodhi Road. This place has an all you can eat breakfast until 10:45 AM for 395 + tax and we were preparing our stomachs for that.

Upon reaching the place, we were told there wasn't place and we had to wait, and so we waited. We waited and waited and when our names were called out, the time showed 10:50 by my watch. Dang! Missed it by a whisker. And so Neo and I set about sifting through the menu in solemn silence, disappointed at the near miss.

The place was nice, a retro look with the classical diner feel. The music kept getting stuck (I'm guessing the computer through which they were playing it was overloaded, just like the kitchen). I decided to go in for a Pierre's french toast, which came with French toast (duh!), choice of bacon or sausages and scrambled eggs,
and also a Sunset skillet comprising of a couple of pancakes, pork sausages, bacon, and eggs.
Neo decided to go in for a Santa Fe skillet, which comprised of toast, sausages and eggs,
and a pancake stack with butter.
Of course the usual suspects accompanying pancakes were there: Maple, orange and strawberry syrup.

Service was a little awry since they had their hands full on a Sunday morning - that, or our waiter was waiting too many tables as they were probably understaffed - I don't know. But he took a while to get water, to a while to get the drink for the couple seated close by - OK, lemme stop taking their case now. I was a tourist there, and I don't know what are the funda about this place. I loved the food, although the Egg Factory provides an equally sumptuous breakfast for half the cost (minus the meat and pancakes though). Maybe I should ask Yogesh to introduce pancakes and maple syrup on the menu as well.

Wallet Factor: The Sunrise skillet cost 225, while the Santa Fe skillet was 185, the Pierre's toast was 190 and the pancake stack was 110, so with taxes, it amounted to 870 (thanks to Neo for giving me the breakup)

The All American Diner, Habitat World, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi