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Restaurant Name: Farzi Cafe, Connaught Place, New Delhi
Phone: +919599889701, +919599889700
Address: 38/39, Block E, Inner Circle, Connaught Place, New Delhi, India
Time: 12:00 Noon – 01:00 AM
Meals for two: Rs. 2,200
Cuisines: Bar, North Indian, Mughlai, Fast Food, Desserts
Facilities: Home Delivery, Takeaway Available, Full Bar Available, Live Sports Screening, Indoor Seating, Desserts and Bakes, Smoking Area
FARZI CAFE 2021 Modern Indian from the whole sub-continent
Farzi Cafe, Connaught Place, New Delhi: Decor
As soon as you reach the second floor (there’s a lift), you know you have entered a landmark restaurant. Farzi Cafe offers a menu that has something for everyone and is very good value for money. Add to that visually spectacular add-ons like the ‘smoking’ amuse-bouche and palate cleansers on a stick, live music and a well-stocked bar, and you have the younger crowd eating out of your hands. The music at lunch time is far louder than pleasant: that is when customers of all ages visit. It must be said that the Farzi version of Indian food is refreshing: favorites from all over the country, put together with a twist in most cases.
Farzi Cafe, Connaught Place, New Delhi: Food
Wrapped in cannelloni cooked al dente, the cylindrical mutton galouti (₹395) was a brilliant rendition on the venerable melt-in-the-mouth kebab and their spicing was as good as they get, without the overpowering scent of kewra! The best part was the textural difference between firm pasta and meltingly tender kebab. Chicken candy (₹395) was batter-coated minced chicken fried on a stick to resemble a lollipop (hence the name) and the gondhoraj sauce elevated it with its trademark flavour, though there was scope for ramping up the gondhoraj quotient. The rock prawns thecha (₹695) was fierce with the liberal use of green chillies in the uber-Maharashtrian thecha. The keema kulcha (₹495) with a mint jalapeno chutney was easily the high point of the meal with the kulcha literally bursting at the seams with keema.
While purists may scoff, chicken momo biryani (₹575) is an offbeat way of offering two dishes at the price of one and is sure to be a hit with the young crowd that throngs here. Prawns in Alleppey Curry (₹695) was exactly the way a North Indian would do a traditional South Indian dish: visibly tangy with the use of raw mango, but lacking the feisty punch because of the overuse of onion gravy. While at Farzi, don’t forget to ask for the cotton candy-wrapped sweet paan.
Plus & Minus:
Farzi Cafe has just revamped its menu to include new entries. Sadly, there is no symbol to distinguish old from new items.
