High-octane culinary journey

After opening a series of fine dining restaurants, Chef Ishijyot Surri,

Executive Chef, SJI Hospitality has come up with ABCD - Any Body Can Drink lounge bar. The entrance leading to the restaurant sets the tone for its sophisticated ambiance, music and expansive seating options. On the menu are a variety of hard drinks, wines, sangrias, beers, cocktails and mocktails. Our mind was in a tizzy as we tried to shuffle the pages of the menu, finally settling on the cooling Grape Fizzy mocktail.

The place also has an extensive food menu offering not just Indian, but American, Mexican, Italian and Thai cuisines. We started our culinary journey with (our favourite) French Fries and their signature Sea Food platter comprising of Panchphoran Jhinga (prawns), Crispy Fried Kalamari, Fish in Thai Basil Sauce and Ajwaini Fried Fish and moved on to the succulent Chicken Lababdar Kebab. Exploring the menu further, we tried the BBQ Grilled Chicken Sizzler—not too impressive and the quantity of the chicken wasn’t enough either. From the Oriental menu we tried the Roasted Chicken Dimsum, which was alright but needed a stronger dip to compliment the otherwise bland dimsums. The best was the Indian Chicken Dum Biryani—we couldn’t stop gorging on the succulent juicy chicken in a non-spicy marinade mixed in aromatic basmati rice.

It was time to end our eating spree and Hazelnut Praline Moussecake and Sizzling Walnut Brownie with Vanilla Ice Cream proved to be the perfect desserts. Overall, though we loved some dishes (and drinks), we weren’t too happy with the quantity of the food, at least not for the price. Definitely worth a visit if you are in Andheri and need a nice party place to spend that weekend.

Where: Floor 1, Crescent Royale, Veera Desai Industrial Road, Off New Link Road, Andheri Lokhandwala, Andheri West, Mumbai