Republic of Chicken: SouthEx, New Delhi
By Sid Khullar • Oct 3rd, 2008 • Category: Reviews
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We visited ROC for dinner with Ashwin a few days back. Located in the very first building in SouthEx (coming from AIIMS), ROC is on the third floor of the same building that houses Mango and MAAC.The interiors are clean and inviting, a pure fast food ambience, open kitchens and polite waiters. They also have a cold cuts / deli counter in the same place, where you can pick up nearly all the items on their menu for cooking at home. Nice. With about 100 covers and solid air conditioning, the place is geared to handle all the traffic it can get. I understand they have their own chicken farm in Chandigarh where all their products are processed from live hen to nugget (that’s an easy one – what came first, the chicken or the nugget?). Did I mention the woody ambience, funny slogans and quite well done collateral all over the place?
Lets wrap up the bad stuff first – the service is awful. Awful as in, uninformed and inept – like clearing away plates of people who’re still eating (Cherie went to the loo and found her plate was replaced in the meantime), clearing the plates and leaving used cutlery on the table and so on, asking for large plates twice and getting little ones both times, and so on. Also, the cushions are so soft, that when anyone of average height sits on them, he/she winds up being at chin level with the table, which, as you will agree, isn’t very comfortable.
Having said that, nothing took more than 6 – 10 minutes to reach us, which is quite good.
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Sid Khullar is a self confessed food addict who likes cooking, writing and photography... and travel, if it gets him closer to a good book and interesting food.
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hve heard lotz about republic chicken ,..thnks for the review,..
Wow the price seems really high for the service, but if the prime rib is as good as you say then it might be worth the indulgence.
@Melanie: The price was a bit on the higher side and everything (food / service / prices) balanced out quite well.
sounds gr8!!
thanks a lot Sid.
you saved me from starvation of grilled chicken.