A soupy bowl of cheese!

My latest junction where my ship has landed is Bangalore.

Well, I suffer from this disease of food craving! I mean it’s almost like a pregnant lady craving for food and I am trying hard to get over it. And I could possibly do anything to eat what I crave for by which I mean I could bake the cake myself if no option. And for me that a good option!

So just last night I had this huge craving for Thai food which was bottled up for almost a weeks time. Usually it’s difficult for me to control that long but well in a new place with little pennies in my pocket, nothing can be done. Well I guess there are not too many options of Thai eatery joints in Bangalore. And I would love to be corrected, if wrong. So with very options and a huge distance to travel to and with a good ambience and a lively eating joint, well those are my criteria’s I settled for an Italian cum Continental cuisine fine dining restaurant called Spiga, located at St. Marks Road in Bangalore. Well the tension was building up in my stomach and believe me it’s a weeks craving. Terrible isn’t it?

So finally after my friend KVG suggested this place, we drove down to Spiga, one of the few good Continental Restaurants. So Spiga, Good ambience and for a couple it would work even better with the lighting's and the candle lights it would do great for quixotic couples. For me it’s more of the food that makes the place rather than the opposite! Without wasting much time we scan through the menu and in my mind I was trying hard to imagine what the taste would be like given the range of items in each dish to a point I called for some help. Good service, almost as soon as we raised our heads above the menu card we had our butler in place. We asked for a second opinion and placed the order.

Our first dish was fresh Seer fish cooked to perfection with herbs and mint green sauce. Deep fried fish is utter waste of fish. To me fishes are delicate and need a shallow fry and the moment you deep fry it,you kill the taste and that’s exactly what they did. Deep fry and that’s where it all started. Well I kept sipping on my white rum, my saving grace for the day! Our next dish was the main course and I ordered pasta i.e. screwed penne, with white sauce, basil herbs with rubbery prawns tossed with tasteless sun dried tomatoes. To which I asked for my favorite veggies, broccoli and mushrooms to be added. And there I was pretty much upset and quite disappointed. Set out to have pasta and ended up with a soupy bowl filled with loads cheese!