This week Mukul had his fill at the Tandoor on M G Road. But before that he has something about the different types of food like North Indian, Mughlai, Punjabi, Tandoori, Dhaba, and Delhi food. Mughlai food is something introduced by the Moghuls whose royal chefs were all trained in Central Asian Mongol, Persian and Afghanistani techniques and included the aromatic Basmati rice pullao. Punjabi eating is hearty, strong, earthy, high-cal fare involving milk, buttermilk, ghee, fruits and freshly harvested produce. Tandoori food - dishes cooked in hot clay ovens - is red and succulent and very mildly spiced with almost no oil but the marinade and the unleavened breads like naan. Anyway Mukul is still not able to figure out the difference in these food types. So, let's have lunch with Mukul at Tandoor.

The place is one of the older restaurants in town having been in existence since 1982 but has undergone a thorough renovation a couple of years back. Since it's right in the middle of the business and marketing centre the clientele is mixed. A lot of office-goers during lunch and families and foreigners at nights. It's also slightly pricier than normal though, which might account for the middle and upper middle income groups' preference for the place.

However the extras are unobtrusive but sufficient nonetheless. The service is good, for instance, without being aloofor overwhelming; the background music's nothing great but it's neither blaring; the power is five-star and that too on M G Road on a weekday afternoon is like getting pre-sold coals to that NewCastle.

Address: Tandoor
28, M G Road,
Bangalore 560 001
Telephone: 5584620
Cuisine: Tandoori

(Courtesy The Times of India )

In case if some of you decide to go to Tandoor, then make sure you hit the place either in the evening or sometime during the winter season so that you need not feel that you were being cooked on the hot clay ovens. Just a suggestion! Afterall it's the question of filling your tummy. `We live to eat' or is it `We eat to live'? It does not matter as long as we are alive and kicking.