Mahesh Lunch Home - Sea Food Speciality

Visit Day, Date and Time:- Wednesday, 13-June-2018, 20.00 p.m.

"Mahesh Lunch Home" started it's journey in the late 70's by opening it's prime outlet in the Fort area of Mumbai and has been the first restaurant in the Mumbai to serve authentic Mangalorian sea food. It currently has 6 (six) outlets within the few cities (Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore) of India and 1 (one) outlet in Dubai.

Last week visited it's Juhu outlet for food tasting.

Ambience:- It's interiors are quite simple and soothing with dim lights and comfortable seating options.

We started off our food tasting session with Seafood Combination Soup, which was warm and flavourful with good amount of diced fish and prawns. It gave the perfect start to the tasting session.

After soup we decided to try out few starters from the tasting menu, so opted for Crab Butter Pepper Garlic, Prawns Chilly Green, Surmai Fry.

Crab Butter Pepper Garlic, one of the iconic dish from the menu. Herein huge crab was cooked perfectly keeping juiciness of the meat intact and flavourful. You can't miss it if you love eating crabs.

Prawns Chilly Green, herein medium sized prawns are tossed with chilly, bell peppers and basil. It was tasty and good option for foodies who love to eat prawns.

Surmai Fry, herein big piece of surmai fish is marinated with in-house spices and fried to perfection giving it crispy texture outside.

From the main course section we tried out the Mangalorian Prawns Gassi and Butter Chicken along with Neer Dosa and Appam. The medium spicy and tangy gravy went well with soft Neer Dosa and crispy & soft Appam. Even the Butter Chicken was tasty.

We ended our tasting session on sweeter note with Gulab Jamun, Malai Kulfi and traditional Tender Coconut Payasam. Overall the desserts were decent with perfect sweetness.

Recommendations:- Surmai Fry. Crab Butter Pepper Garlic, Prawns Chilly Green, Prawns Gassi with Neer Dosa or Appum.

Service:- Quick

Experience:- Overall it was an amazing experience and one of the best place to try out traditional and flavourful Managalorian seafood.

Taste:- 4/5

Service:- 4/5

Ambience:- 4/5

Value for Money:- 4/5

Note:- Visit to this place was on invitation but the review is based on my personal experience 

"Estella" :- Modern Australian Cuisine

Visit Day Date n Time:- Tuesday 10-Jan-17, 8.30 p.m.

"Estella" a newly (just a month old) opened sea facing restaurant located in Juhu area of the City, serves modern Australian cuisine with a touch of Asian and European flavours, it's owned an managed by Silver Beach Entertainment & Hospitality Private Limited who have other popular hotels like Nom Nom, Silver Beach Cafe and Radio Bar.

It's quite spacious outlet classified into two sections (i.e Interior dinning section and Outer beach deck) with seating options available within as well as the outer deck including the Bar and Private Cabana's. An ideal place for romantic dates where you can enjoy your food in the open air under the stars with mesmerizing view of the Juhu beach totally justifies the tag line Sea Stars and Sins.

The food menu is designed creatively by Chef Rohan and his team, which indeed reflects unique personality of this place. Being first visit, we requested the Chef to suggest the food and on basis of which we ordered Spanish Seafood Al Ajilio, Chicken Wings Cakes Decompressed, Salad, Hazelnut & Parmesan Crusted Chicken Escallop, Baked Mud Crab & Ricotta, Triple Layered Chocolate Ganache with Espresso Crumble, Budwiser Beer and Margarita. Really impressed by food suggestion from the Chef and his kindness of finding out our experience after every dish. 

• Spanish Seafood Al Ajilio:- Simply loved the combo of Clams, Shrimps & Scallops served in buttery garlic sauce with garlic breads.

• Chicken Wings Cakes Decompressed:- Thing i loved about this dish was poached spinach, it really enriched taste of the chicken wings cakes.

• Salad:- I'm not much of salad person but was quite impressed with the freshness of the veggies contained in the salad.

• Hazelnut & Parmesan Crusted Chicken Escallo:- Perfectly cooked Chicken and good option on the menu for the Chicken lovers.

• Baked Mud Crab & Ricotta:- One of my favourite from the menu. Crab shell filled with yummy stuffing of crabmeat, herbs and ricotta cheese placed over herbed risotto and tomato cream sauce. If you are crab person then you will definitely love it.

• Triple Layered Chocolate Ganache with Espresso Crumble:- Lip-smacking. Worth a try.

Food portions are good enough and sufficient for one person.

Recommendation:- Spanish Seafood Al Ajilio, Hazelnut & Parmesan Crusted Chicken Escallop, Baked Mud Crab & Ricotta, Triple Layered Chocolate Ganache with Espresso Crumble.

Excellent service right from the moment we entered the premises till the time we left, which perfectly compliment the fascinating ambiance and appetizing food. 

Plus Points:- Mumbai's first Australian cuisine restaurant, Valet Parking.

Point to note:- Reservation required for outer beach deck.

Overall lively experience and thanks to Chef Rohan Dsouza for the invitation. Kudos to team Estella. Will surely visit this place again.

Taste:- 5/5

Value for money:- 4/5

Service:- 5/5

Ambience:- 5/5