08 August,2011 07:30 AM IST | | Anjana Vaswani
SoBo residents and office goers have another food delivery service option in the vicinity. While Ate-oh-ate in Tardeo isn't much to rave about, it does offer pleasant vegetarian fare at reasonable prices
The enthusiastic service is probably the most impressive feature of the new home food-delivery service in Tardeo. Not only were we truthfully informed about how long our order would take, we also received a call from the management to intimate us when the delivery person had left with our order. The service didn't end there.
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The man who took our order insisted on knowing how spicy we would like our food, and called later to check if the food was satisfactory. Sadly, only two out of the four dishes were satisfactory, so we can't give this place a thumbs-up.
Our order was still warm when it reached, despite the relentless rains. The first dish we sampled was the Cottage Cheese Mozzarella Herbed Cream Cheese Wrap (Rs 119), which was prepared with incredibly fresh cottage cheese that had been perfectly seasoned. The wrap was light and bursting with flavour.
It was mostly downhill from that point onwards. The Mushroom Melt (Rs 99) had chopped onions, but not the caramelised onions the menu promised. It was also a tad too salty for our liking and could have done with a little more Mozzarella.
The Spaghetti Pesto (Rs 160) was insufficiently seasoned and overloaded with thick sauce that had tragically borrowed too much sourness from the sun-dried tomatoes, which were over-cooked. There was none of the flavour of pesto that should have been the dominant flavour of the dish.
We were glad we ordered the Ultimate Choco Tart (Rs 69 for 2 pieces), because it helped us recover from the trauma the pasta had us endure. The crisp chocolate cups were pretty, the whipped dark chocolate filling was smooth and adequately sweet, but the absence of the pastry shell, an integral component of a tart, was irksome. Nonetheless, it is a nice enough dessert that we would recommend for chocoholics.
At Maniyar, Tardeo. Call 9819008808 (Free delivery on orders over Rs 250)
Ate-Oh-Ate didn't know we were there. The Guide reviews anonymously and pays for meals.
