Review: The Host

By Sid Khullar • Oct 27th, 2007 • Category: Restaurants in Central Delhi, Reviews

(1/5)
An extended coffee in Connought Place, New Delhi led to dinner today – Saturday night. All decent places seemed full, so we decided to try ‘The Host’. The experience started well, with a decadent, but pleasant enough ambiance and a polite waiter. It went well when we received our beer, which was just right [temperature].

Alas, it all came to naught when our dinner arrived. We had ordered dahiwala mutton, chicken cooked in curry with almonds, yellow dal and dahi bhalla with a butter naans and tandoori rotis. The dahiwala mutton was a normal mutton curry mixed with curd. You could still see the white specks where someone had simply added a spoon or so of yoghurt and hurriedly stirred it in. The chicken was really shredded boiled chicken stirred into the same curry as the mutton with a piece of burfi and almond slivers sprinkled over it. The yellow dal had no flavour. The rotis were fine and so were the dahi bhalle.

Insult atop injury were the teeny weeny portions. None of the dishes were more than a cup in quantity.

It is apparently about 28 years old and owned by a Manjeet Singh Kohli. Mr. Kohli – if you’re listening – your food is in urgent need of a total overhaul. But I guess Mr. Kohli probably doesn’t care. He probably has unsuspecting tourists wandering in all the time, who don’t know any better and you really can’t go wrong with any decent location in Connought Place.

All in all, make sure you *never* wander into F-8, Inner Circle, Connought Place, New Delhi – even if you can’t find any other.

Rating: 1/5 | Meal for Two: INR 500 | Alcohol: Served

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Tagged as: Boil, Chicken, chicken recipe, curry, Dinner, Mutton, yellow

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