Beyond Indus

While on our honeymoon we had a brief stopover in Chandigarh, where I had my life's best food experience in the form of a chicken tikka, it tasted like heaven, I don't remember ever tasting anything that comes close to it, until of course last week when I ate the Dal Indus at Beyond Indus at Taj Club House.

Ambiance: (-1/5)

Ever since I heard that they have a few specialities from Sindh I have been looking forward to an evening there. In my mind that evening was to be a peaceful happy evening spent with my much deserved cheat meal. But to my shock Beyond Indus was right next to Blend which is the bar at Taj Clubhouse. The music, besides being unbearably loud, was awful too, the noise was giving me a heart and head ache and to top it all I could barely listen to the husband. What I don't get is, how can a place like Taj be so lousy, how could they have missed one of the most essential part of dining out: ambiance, how could they assume that people who come to dine tolerate trash from another place that was so loud that our glasses rattled. If I wanted loud music I would go to the bar! Another thing that I didn't like was the oval tables and uncomfortable seating. I couldn't stand it for more than 10 minutes so I complained and we were moved to the adjacent restaurant, where a band played some songs completely out of tune, but after the trash music at Beyond Indus we were thankful for the tune-less band.

Service: (3/5)

The girl who attended us when we entered couldn't understand us or speak with clarity. She referred to me as "Sir" and when we complained about the music she replied " Well, you see it's Friday night." I was tired after a long day or else I would have really made her miserable. I am not a Sir, I have come to a restaurant to eat and not to tolerate trash that's being played in the bar next door and it is SATURDAY. Anyways I just let it slide. The people who served us after we were moved were good though, we received quite a few apologies for the noise but I'd still say, how dare they assume that they can impose shit like that?

Food: (5/5)

We tried their Tomato+Fennel soup which was Meh at best. For starters we tried their sea food platter which was again just about okay, but then everything changed. The only thing that single handedly turned the disastrous evening to an evening I shall remember fondly for a long long time was the Dal Indus with Phulkas that we tried for the mains. Now, if I shall say so myself I make really good phulkas but I don't know anyone who'd make them for me, or any good restaurants that make them as good as they were at the Indus, which means every time I have to eat good phulkas I have to make them, but not anymore, now I shall simply go to Beyond Indus. The Dal was outta-this-world level of yumminess. My second best meal till date. Okay so if you understand the concept of Diminishing Marginal Utility let me tell you that for me every morsel was heaven and only got better. I was really really really happy. Every morsel I went mmmm---ymmm-ummm.

For desserts we tried their lahori rabri, which was anything but rabri. I wonder if these guys understand that texture is really important, you cannot make rabri and then blend it finely into pudding. So while everything else was meh or passable, for the Dal Indus and phulkas I have to give them a 5/5. Maybe I shall marry that dal.


Pocket friendly: (2/5)

So this meal for 2 cost us 4000. So it's definitely not very pocket friendly but for the second best food experience of my life, I'd say, I'd happily be fleeced. So will I go there again? You bet I will but only for the Dal and phulkas.