Food Review: Vrindavan(New woodlands)

Today is one of those days when everything looks dull amd uninteresting ,(read my previous post) my cousin "R...." came to the rescue..she was the only soul who had time for me today...she wanted to go to the New woodlands restaurant in radhakrishnan road..i was waitng for a reason to go out and this looked like my lucky break!,.so i gladly obliged .

We reached the place at around 8.30pm and we got a table only at 9pm!!..well its sunday and every restaurant in town would be filled upto the brim on sunday nights,inside the ambience was good..they had a neat set of tables and chairs, the lighting was kind of dull though.

I scanned through the menu card and found that they had a limited set of north indian and south indian items..there were other chinese and lebanese stuff..well only a fool would want to eat lebanese in an indian restaurant it would be something like lebindianese!!:p).I ordered my favourite sambhar vadai (thats my south indian alternative for soup!!) and for maincourse we ordered nan,palak panner ,kadai vegetable and veg pulav.The others went about ordering the usual south indian stuff like poori,onion rava ,masala dosai etc.We waited for a long time for the food to arrive,and the service wasnt upto the mark...for instance the masala papad was suppose to be a starter and it arrived well after people were done with their soup.The samabhar vadai which i ordered was rally good..so i was pretty happy (sambhar crazy me :D) generally all the south indian stuff was good in the hotel..the sambhar was good but the chutney was bad..infact it even tasted like it was stale..that was a big let down..and even the variety was missing in the chutney department..there was only a basic coconut chutney(thengai chutney!!)..usually when u pay abt 60 rs for a dosai u expect atleast 5 different chutneys..but it was not to be so..and the north indian dishes werer all satisfactory(no so great)..the palak panner wasnt upto the mark but the kadai veg was decent,the bread became rubber like in a matter of minutes..so that again was a big negative..the rice was tasting good.

The only thing which came immediately when we asked was the bill :P!!,

over all..its a decent place for south indian food..but i would never recommend this hotel for anyone..for the price charged the quality is desperately found wanting...there are other good restaurants in town..please stay away from this one.