Dining at Level 13!

A Breezy evening on a weekend is the right time to enjoy a sumptuous dinner on the 13th Floor of Barton Centre on MG Road, Bangalore. The restaurant in question is Ebony- its a unique experience in Fine dining.

The Cool Bangalore breeze blowing onto your face and the lights on top of the UB City gleaming at you from a distance, the maddening rush on MG Road below you feel is happening at another end of the globe for the serenity and calm that you experience at Level 13 on MG Road is uncomparable to anything else (in spite of having a noisy pub next door, I dont know how they do it!). Add to it, wide array of dishes to choose from and you are in for a treat!

We started off with mocktails, fried baby corns and roasted papads (papads are on the house). The list of mocktails was quite alluring and all of them were equally exotic. The baby corn dish was rightly spiced up and the hot, crispy papads on a chilly evening just added to the pleasure.

Time for main course- it was Subz ki Biriyani, Egg Pad Thai and the traditional Rotis for us with a Rajasthani style Mixed Vegetable Curry. The Biriyani was served with Vegetable Raita with a generous sprinkling of Chaat Masala and Mirchi ka Ras- a dark brown gravy with a whole lot of green chillies. To be very honest, it tasted like manna. The Pad Thai serving was quite generous with Vegetables and Rice Noodles neatly filled into an Egg Wrap. I cannot describe enough of its taste. We had yummy chilly pickle to go with the above. The rotis were soft and fresh and the Mixed Vegetable Curry was lip smacking to say the least.

We would have loved to take a generous go at the Dessert menu. Though all of us had the right bend of mind, none of us had enough space in our over sized tummies to take it. We ended up buying a Lemon cream cake (well, sort of, forgot its exact name) and shared it among all of us- It had rich cream with a squeezing of Lemon Juice and crushed cookies mixed with strawberry cream- Mix it all up and give it a try- you will land up straight away in heaven!

Food and ambience at Ebony scores very high on my rating. Considering the fact that you dont get to see many such places in Bangalore I would call Ebony good value for money. A decent meal for 2 would cost you between 1- 1.5 K. Strongly recommended especially for dinner and make sure you spend considerable time at the restaurant. Start early and come back late :-)