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FRIDAY 3 APRIL 2015PUNE TIMES, THE TIMES OF INDIA4 WINE & DINE

PARTY TIME Perfect Party @ Banquets, Pancard

Clubs, Baner HillsFrom intimate to grand, traditional to

unexpected — Pancard Clubs with a guestcapacity of 25 to 5000 take great pride in

providing delicious cuisines, refreshingdrinks, class-apart hospitality and exquisiteambience for weddings, birthdays, recep-

tions and other family functions. The selec-tion of beautiful floral displays, DJ, dramatic lighting and grand event ideas make every

event memorable.Price: `450 onwards per person;

Contact: 84518 51303

THALI SPECIALPure Vegetarian Thali @ Vishnu ji

Ki Rasoi, Mhatre Pool, ErandwaneEnjoy pure vegetarian thalis with Ma-

harashtrian and Punjabi cuisine at thisrestaurant. They specialise in Varhadidishes like shev bhaji, patwadi rassa,zhunka, gola bhaat etc and delectable

sweets. The restaurant is also perfect forall types of parties.

Price: Lunch: `170 (Monday to Saturday); Sunday Lunch: `300,

Dinner: `300;Special Offer: Avail 10% discount fora group of six and above on dinner

between Monday to Friday.Timings: Lunch: 12.30-2.30 pm;

Dinner: 7.30-10.30 pm; Contact: 94206 96642 /

9823268695

BURGERS AND MORE

Easter Brunch @ DoubleTree by Hilton Pune-Chinchwad, C-32, Tata Motors Road; April 5

Celebrate Easter with a special brunch at 3Spices and an array of Easter special delicacies.Guests can try dishes like Easter eggs, assorted

marzipan eggs, devilled eggs and more. Therestaurant is also hosting fun-filled activities for

kids.Price: `949 onwards (plus taxes) per person;

Timings: 12.30-4.30pm;Contact: 8554982531

EASTER SPECIAL

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Vietnamese Cuisine @ SmileyHouse, Shop A-2, Sai Heritage, D.P.Road, Near Medipoint Hospital,AundhThe small joint serves authentic Vietnamesecuisine. Visit the place for the Vietnamese cof-fee and main course.Price: `200 per person; Timings: Lunch:Noon-3.30 pm, Dinner: 6-9.30 pm

Kolkata Rolls @ Tappy’s Kathi Kebab, Shop 28,Shubh Mio Palazzo, Near GangaConstella, KharadiThis place has an array of vegetarianand non vegetarian Kolkata rolls to of-fer.Price: `100 per person;Timing: 12.30-10 pm

DECOR ★★★½

A tastefully decorated, simple,health food café in Koregaon Parkwhich should appeal to anyonewho cares about clean, healthyliving. Run by Australian Bree andher husband Rajan, the couplecame back to India and decidedto make Pune their home at theend of 2013.They decided to fol-low a dream and set up an Aus-tralian style café with a healthytwist. There are half a dozen orso tables outside. Indoors is air-conditioned with nice wooden ta-bles, a solid wooden counter andbright coloured metal chairs.Wa-ter is served from largemedicine bottles andjuices are served insmall and large jamjars.FOOD ★★★★

We started with a‘green juice’ - cucumber, mint,lemon, ginger andparsley which tastes much betterthan it sounds (no bitterness orunpleasant vegetal aftertaste)and a ‘cleanse’ juice with beet-root, carrot and apple. They havea very good range of coffees andorganic teas too. For somethingmore traditional, try the tropical -

watermelon, pineapple and orange.The smoothies are allsugar free and very popular.Westart with the broccoli and ched-dar and carrot and ginger soupsof the day with nachni toast, es-

pecially thoughtfulfor those intolerantto gluten. Most oftheir breads comefrom the Frenchbakery, La BoucheeD’Or on Boat clubroad.Youwill geta

bowl full of boun-tiful goodnesswith their salads.I don’t normallylike the newhealth food on theblock, quinoa, but therainbow salad at One O

Eight with quinoa, carrot and redcabbage in a creamy cashewand basil dressing, was quite thetreat. You’ll forget this is a healthfood café once you taste thepasta bianco with mushrooms,spinach and mature cheddarcheese from Auroville. For a lightlunch I would highly recommendthe bruschetta on the most di-vine pumpkin seed and nutbread (made in-house) bursting

with fresh vegetables, avoca-do and an olive oil

dressing.There areplenty of glutenfree, vegan andeggless options.Don’t come hereexpecting rich

food. Most of theitems on offer are

snacks and a limitedchoice of seasonal

healthful main courses. I am de-lighted to experience a healthfood restaurant where the foodis not only good for you but alsotastes great.Plus and Minus: Great location.Vegetarian with egg.

Modern Australian

Restaurant ReviewONE O EIGHT CAFE

Karen Anand

READERS’ REVIEWS ON TIMESCITY.COM

� The Great Kabab Factory,KharadiGo there hungry and avail the unlim-ited offer. Great for both the non-veggies and the veggies. The foodand refills keep coming on and on. Ifyou can still eat the the biryani whenit arrives, that will be a miracle —but go for it. Good value for money.— MumbaikarFood: 4, Service: 4, Decor: 3.5

� Kadhai, Aundh Kadhai is one of the good places inAundh where you can have good in-dian snacks. Jalebi is one on thebest things which is served here.— Tarun MFood: 3.5, Service: 3, Decor: 3

� Polka Dots, KalyaninagarIt is a small place is Kalyaninagarand it is good for dinner. The staff isgood and also provides guests withgood suggestions. The Thai red curryis good and pasta is also good. PhadThai is also a must try here. Reservea table before you visit the place.— Shikha ChauhanFood: 3, Service: 4, Decor: 2.5

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RATING: � Food: 4� Service: 4 � Décor: 3.5

One O Eight CafePrecious Gem Apartment, Lane Number 6,

Meera Nagar, Koregaon Park Tel: 90118 04770

Price for two: `1600Timings: 9 am-9 pm

MUST TRY: Bruschetta with pumpkin seedbread, pasta bianco, green juice, rainbow

quinoa salad

TIMES FOOD GUIDE

Bruschetta withpumpkin bread

Apr 3Friends — Season 7, Episode 24, 8 pm;

Cast: Jennifer Aniston,Courteney Cox; TV Se-ries/Rom-comThe Middle — Season 2,Episode 8, 8.30 pm; Cast:Patricia Heaton, Neil Flynn,Charlie McDermott;TV/Comedy

Love N’ Dancing, 9 pm; Cast: Amy Smart,Tom Malloy, Billy Zane; Drama/Romance

Apr 4The Lake House, 7 pm; Cast: Keanu Reeves,

Sandra Bullock, Christopher Plummer; Fanta-sy/RomanceThe Girl Next Door, 9 pm;Cast: Emile Hirsch,Nicholas Downs, ElishaCuthbert; Rom-comCrazy, Stupid, Love, 11pm; Cast: Steve Carell,Ryan Gosling, Julianne

Moore; Rom-com

Apr 517 Again, 7.05 pm; Cast:Zac Efron, Matthew Perry,Leslie Mann; ComedyHeartbreaker, 9 pm;Cast: Romain Duris,Vanessa Paradis, JulieFerrier; Rom-comEvan Almighty, 10.50 pm;Cast: Steve Carell, Morgan

Freeman; Comedy

TV MOVIES

BOOKS

DVD

MIGHTIER THANTHE SWORD byJeffrey ArcherWhen Harry Clifton vis-its his publisher in NewYork, he learns that hehas been elected as thenew president of thefirm. He immediatelylaunches a campaign for

the release of a fellow author, AnatolyBabakov, who is imprisoned in Siberia.What is Babakov’s crime? Writing a bookcalled Uncle Joe, a devastating insight intowhat it was like to work for Stalin. So de-termined is Harry to see Babakov releasedand the book published, that he puts hisown life in danger. Meanwhile, trouble isbrewing on another front. His wife is fac-ing trouble in the corporate world.Pan Macmillan 350

SOPHIA by AnitaAnandIn 1876 Sophia DuleepSingh was born into roy-alty. Her father, Mahara-jah Duleep Singh, washeir to the kingdom ofthe Sikhs, a realm thatstretched from the lush

Kashmir Valley to the craggy foothills ofthe Khyber Pass and included the mightycities of Lahore and Peshawar. It was aterritory irresistible to the British, whoplundered everything. Exiled to Eng-land, the maharajah transformed his es-tate in Suffolk into a Moghul palace andSophia, his daughter was raised as a so-ciety lady. But when, in secret defiance ofthe British government, Sophia travelledto India, she returned a revolutionary,prepared to fight for India’s freedom...Bloomsbury 599

ANNABELLE; 599 Cast: Annabelle Wallis, Ward Horton, Alfre Woodard;Director: John R LeonettiThe prequel to The Conjuring, Annabelle may be simple in its plot,but does manage to give us a few thrills — even if you are at home onDVD. John (Ward Horton), a doting husband, buys his pregnant wifeMia (Annabelle Wallis), a vintage doll to add to her collection. Bizarreincidents follow, which involve a couple from the cult breaking into their house, there-by cursing the doll. The possessed doll begins to take over the lives of the couple andtheir new-born child, for what it seeks is the blood of an innocent. How the mothersaves her child forms the rest of the story. The special feature on the DVD, ‘The Curseof Annabelle’, has the director and the cast talking about the filming process, theprops, the uncomplicated sets, etc. — Nandita.Ravi@timesgroup.com

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Bollywood: TheAashiqui 2 jodiof Jeet Gannguliand Ankit Tiwarih a v ecomposed thesoundtrack ofthis romanticthriller. Openingtrack Tu Jo Hainfollows singer-composer Ti-wari’s templateof sad melodies.Everything fromthe singing andarrangements tothe lyrics by Monish Raza bring a sense of déjà vu. Mr. XTitle Song sounds straight out of a James Bond openingsequence. Composed by Gannguli, it has producer (andfilmmaker) Mahesh Bhatt making a delightful singing de-but. Neither Bhatt nor Mili Nair’s powerful vocals are ableto lift this average composition and Rashmi Singh’s pre-dictable lyrics about the leading character. SaadShukrana is Tiwari’s second song on the album. Differentfrom his usual music, it is the kind of track that grows onyou, thanks to Manoj Muntashir’s penmanship. Tiwarichanges tactic as composer with the techno-meets-Sufisong Alif Se. Tiwari and Neeti Mohan work well behindthe mike. The melodious Teri Khushboo is the best songon the album. Composed by Gannguli and written bySingh, it is big on emotions and makes a good show ofromance. The male version is sung by Arijit Singh whilethe female version has the bubbly Palak Muchhal deliv-ering a crowd pleaser. Tiwari and Gannguli deliver amixed bouquet of crowd pleasers, predictable numbersand soul soothers with this soundtrack. No Aashiqui 2this, the album is still a competent one.

— Kasmin.Fernandes@timesgroup.com

REVIEWS

Marathi: Are we living in the 90s? Well, at least that’swhat the music of Kaay Raav Tumhi suggests. All fivesongs on this album are distinctly similar to Bollywoodnumbers from the 90s era. Sod Na Ga Rag Ha, sung byRohit Raut is not a very good track but better than thenext, Ye To Pudun sung by Kanak Raj. It is a Kumar Sanumeets EDM track which is nothing but an assault onyour ears. As a film revolving around three lecherousold men, it is bound to have a double entendre songand Halav Halav Re is just that. Vaishali Samant singsthis track like a Koli-geet. Starting off like Le Gayee LeGayee from Dil To Pagal Hai, Porgi Pari Sarkhi sung byKanak is a comic attempt probably. The singer over-does his bit making the song annoying. Finally the al-bum ends with Mahalaxmi Iyer’s Angat Rangat, whodoes her job well. Though her singing is faultless, sheis not able to salvage the song as the music is not upto the mark. To conclude, it is better to give this albuma miss.

— Mihir.Bhanage@timesgroup.com

Marathi: The music album of Coffee Ani Barach Kahi(CABK) is one that you want to keep listening to becauseof its mesmerising tracks. The album has three songs, allof which have been crooned by the three musketeers, Ro-hit Raut, Sasha Tirupati and Pandit Sanjeev Abhyankar,who infuse unique qualities in them. While Rohit bringsenergy, Sasha sweetness, Pandit Sanjeev brings puremaster class on board. Melody is the constant factor bind-ing the songs. The title track Coffee Ani Barach Kahi is acheerful song sung by Rohit and Sasha. The saxophoneand guitar strums go well with the beats and voices of theartistes. Tu Astis Tar starts with a sher and slips into puremelody in Abhyankar’s voice. Mangesh Padgaonkar’sdeeply meaningful lyrics play a very important role in thissong. The last song is Rang He Nave Nave which has be-come quite a craze already. Sasha sings beautifully, jug-gling between Marathi, Hindi and English lyrics so easilythat you hardly notice the languages changing. Aditya Be-dekar has done a good job with the music. We only wishthere were more songs though. Nevertheless, this is onealbum that you can listen to on a loop.

— Mihir.Bhanage@timesgroup.com

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Easter Buffet @ Momo Café, Courtyard by Marriott Pune, Hinjewadi, April 5

Guests can enjoy the special Easter buffet withfriends and family at MoMo Café, Courtyard by MarriottPune Hinjewadi. One can dig into a sumptuous buffetwith traditional Easter delicacies along with live grills,

tacos and enchiladas, kebabs, pass around pizzas,sugar candies for kids and iced golas for all ages to

beat the summer heat. In addition to this a wide arrayof Easter eggs, Easter bunnies and an elaborate

dessert counter along with separate kids’ zone withtattoo artist, face paintings and magician which will

provide an appropriate completion to the Easter festivi-ty.

Price: `2300 plus taxes (Non Alcoholic) and `2700plus taxes (Alcoholic - IMFL) for two;

Timings: 12.30-4 pm;Contact: 020-4212 2080 (For reservations)

New Menu @ Chili’s Viman Nagar,Grill & Bar UG 49, Phoenix Market

City, Viman Nagar, Nagar RoadThe American casual dining chain,

Chili’s Grill & Bar has launched a newmenu which includes a new lighter

choice section with mango-Chile basaand margarita grilled chicken and a newvegetarian section. The restaurant has

retained classic favourites like baby backribs, tacos and the legendary big mouth

burgers along with introducing new dish-es like Santa fe chicken sandwich, gua-camole burger and chipotle salmon. Forthe sweet tooth cinnamon molten cake

and a new eggless sizzling brownie sun-dae are the new entrants in the menu.

Price: `1400 approx for two;Contact: 020-30950400