Le Coffee Creme — Restaurant in Bidhannagar

A relaxing cosy evening spent @ Le Coffee Crème, Salt Lake.!

One of the very early establishments set up in and around City Centre Salt Lake, this café cum multicuisine restaurant has ben doing fairly well, when it comes to maintaining and upgrading its quality of food, and pulling in a decent number of customers in terms of its footfall. Located bang opposite the entry parking gate, the first glance from outside gives the look of a run-of-the-mill café, while much to your surprise, you get to explore hidden conjectures as you step in, and move further ahead. The café is immediately followed by a huge open dining area, all fit with tables and comfortable sofas, with a chic tune of music playing in the background.

There is also a separate closed room section, again adorned with comfortable and cosy sofas for people who would prefer seclusion and a bit of immediate privacy. Both the open sitting section and the closed room would offer you hookah, while the outer section comprising of the café, is strictly a non-smoking one. The walls are adorned with wood panels and some bright and quirky photographs, while the lightning is kept mostly dim, to imbibe more of a relaxed ambiance. The food served here covers most of the popular regional and world sections, taking a couple of highlights from here and there.

We began with a Veg Kebab Platter, which comprised of Tandoori Bharwan Aloo, half cut potatoes with skin on and a filling of cottage cheese, grilled mushroom and grilled cottage cheese squares. The Egg Bruschetta had a modified version of baked egg, imparting a fresh and succulent flavours on to the cheesy-garlic flavour laden bread. The Molten Mushroom had creamy mushrooms, topped with melting cheese, while the Achari Chicken Tikka had a strong flavour of the warm spices rubbed on its skin, a striking contrast to the gentle and soothing flavours of the molten mushroom. The chicken portions though, were all soft and easy to cut through.

The Szechuan Chicken was fairly hot, due to the presence of the red chilli peppers and the Szechuan peppers, with Baked Fish perhaps being the best dish of the day, due to its soft and relaxing textures, and the immediate melt-in-the-mouth phenomenon with the intake of a single bite. The main course comprised of a delicious Pizza Dal Makhani, with the creamy Dal Makhani toppings pairing perfectly with the gooey cheese and the sweet tomato sauce on the base. Grilled Lemon Fish with Rice had two portions of fish, grilled with pepper sauce, and served with herbed rice and french fries. The Chicken Steak on the other hand, had barbeque sauce, and was served with garlic breads and asparagus.

Butter Chicken Combo was more like a one-pot meal, with succulent and creamy butter chicken topped on herbed rice and grilled vegetables. For drinks, we tried a fresh watermelon cooler, a sweet and tangy lime mojito, a guava chilly which had the freshness and tangy imbibes of a guava, with the slight hint of chillies, a refreshing Lemon freezer, a rich and decadent Kit Kat Shake, a refreshing Cold Coffee and a freshly squeezed orange juice mojito named here as Muddly Orange. While the sanitizations and hygiene aspects were maintained at the highest levels, it was however the food and drinks here which won my heart.

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Le Coffee Creme is a very pretty cafe, situated just opposite to the main entrance of City Centre 1, Salt Lake. Le Coffee Creme is maintaining all the rules and regulations proposed by the Government. While entering, you need to sanitize your hands from Hand Sanitizer Dispenser Floor Stand. They have also marked few tables where you are not allowed to seat, maintaining social distancing.

Drinks • Watermelon cooler • Lime Mojito • Guava chilly • Lemon freez • Cold coffee • Kit Kat shake • Muddly Orange

All of these drinks were presented in very beautiful way. The KitKat shake and cold coffee was my favourite as usual, but I loved the guava chilly, it has a different tangy and sour flavour in it. One sip of it will give you a stun. Watermelon cooler was as well very refreshing.

Starter • Veg Kebab Platter- In this platter there was tandoori aloo, paneer tikka masala and cheese balls. Anyone who prefers a vegetarian starter can surely try this one.

• Egg Bruschetta- Grilled bread rubbed with garlic and topped with olive oil and salt and in place of antipasto, they added poached egg on top of it along with cheese, giving the Italian dish a new form.

• Molten Mushroom- This is the first time I tried molten mushrooms. Extremely soft mushroom, tossed with butter and cheese, served with cheese on topping. The name goes with the dish perfectly, the mushrooms will melt into your mouth with a bite.

• Aachari Chicken Tikka- Aachari Chicken Tikka is one of the most common starter, which is available in most of the cafes and restaurants. The Aachari chicken tikka they made was no doubt great, the combination of spices was perfect.

• Baked Fish- If you are visiting this place, then you must try this baked fish. This is probably one of the best fish based preparation that I had.

• Schezwan Chicken- Small chunks of chicken, tossed in schezwan sauce and giving it a nice tangy and spicy flavour was something you should never miss.

Main Course • Pizza Dal Makhani- Have you ever had anything which has fusion of Italian and Indian cuisine? If not, then try their Dal Makhani Pizza. Won't say that the pizza was great, but it was tasty and had a different flavour from the usual pizzas.

• Chicken Steak- Chicken steak served with garlic bread, french fries and sauteed veggies. The chicken was neither too soft nor stiff, it was perfect. The amount of spices in it was in proportion.

• Grilled Lemon Fish With Rice- Grilled lemon fish is one of the most loved dish by the people of Kolkata. Le Coffee Creme mastered in preparing it. They served it with rice, french fries and sauteed veggies.

Coming to the ambience of this place, they have various sections with a private area too, for small gatherings. The place might look small, but it isn't. Their hospitality was no doubt great, everyone including the head chef was very...

Very very disappointing and unsettling experience after reading so many decent reviews before our visit to this 15 year plus old cafe. In short, it is outrageously expensive for mostly average food and beverages, careless service and utter lack of efficiency.

We had ordered vanilla and irish cappuccinos along with an americano and a darjeeling tea. The tea cost Rs 169 for a mug of boiling water and a single tea bag. We have better quality tea at home. The americano was served in a terracotta cup which was leaking all over the table. We had to call the server to replace it ASAP.

We had ordered chilli and cream cheese dimsums, recommended by them. When the food was tasted, we were taken aback. There was a vegetable and paneer stuffing with no 'cream cheese' in sight, smell or taste. The soup served along with the dimsums was extremely spicy (full of finely shredded green and red chillis). My poor elderly mother who has a lot of dietary restrictions, had to push the soup aside, after just one sip.

Lastly, after confirming twice that we wanted a non vegetarian Mediterranean mezze platter (priced Rs 449), we were served an ordinary nonvegetarian platter (priced Rs 749), which contained three types of kababs (fish and chicken). The kababs were good but the order was wrong.

Wouldn't recommend this place at all to others as there are numerous well located, reasonably priced as well as instagrammable cafes in Salt Lake nowadays. This one was a...