Barley & Grapes Cafe - Sahakarnagar — Restaurant in Bengaluru

Good place to have drinks(sprite) with friends n family. .......................................................................... Decent place to have dinner and get to gether.................................................................................................................................................... Prices r high n quantity are good and nice ambient and small place for small group gathering ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. Services r fast n tastes good and nice place to sit and...

Visited the pub around 230 PM. Place was crowded perhaps because people who wanted to visit Druid garden came here after they started taking a hefty parking fee.

Anyways...ambience is just a careless mess. Did not look hyp or happening. Was full of kids....including ours...lol.

Seating arrangement is a big issue here. Uncomfortable postions as it is open air....and on a sunny day...you wd be sitting in direct sunlight.

Fans are not placed at all places. And I as luck wd have it got a place where ther was neither fan not the misty water the place sprinkled. I had a miserable sweaty lunch.

Coming to the food ...did nt impress me one bit. Were too oily, too salty. And did not taste good. For example the crispy veg were all soggy and excessively salty, these should dishes not exist on the menu if this is what gets served.

Prawn tempura was too oily and prawn was uncleaned.

Pasta was insipid.

Fish fingers were good..and the dip that came with it was really good. Saving grace.

Had a mug of some frothy beer and sugar water masquerading as vanilla milk shake for the kid.

We were bothered by heat, sweat and quality(lack) of food so...we exited without going for main course...

The mist-based cooling system might offend the environmentally-conscious with drought season coming ever closer, but decadence is what wars are worth fighting for.

And decadence reveals itself in austerity, with the centre area entirely erected in wood, the roof panelled intermittently with glass, and cut off from the smoking area with plastic blinds, lending a glass-house vibe that somehow always keeps its cool, even at high noon in an increasingly-arid Bangalore.

I would recommend visiting Barley & Grapes any time after it opens and before it closes. The ambience alone varies with the time and it's always worth returning here for that alone.

As for the food, it can't quite compare with Casa Piccola, boasting a similar, albeit smaller menu. If you want to treat yourself to a full meal here, libation of your choosing included, the bill would set you back by 1,000 bucks, but that's the price for indulgence. Otherwise, a single main course dish and the booze of your choice would come up to about 500.

All in all, Barley & Grapes is memorable enough to return to, and a great place to go to...