Huber & Holly (Banjara Hills, Hyderabad) — Restaurant in Hyderabad

#HubernHolly #AhmedabadBrand #QualityWithaPrice

Huber & Holly a household brand name in Ahmedabad for their quality home churned ice creams and desserts comes to Hyderabad as their second home and what better time to launch when Hyderabad food landscape is booming and craving for something different and unique.

Based on a detailed interaction with Chef Shrinivas clarifies what's the brand's operations and focus on Quality is all about. Insisting on going for the raw materials from the right source is their motto and to keep it with top most quality seems to be evident in Chef's points put forward.

#Decor - The place qualifies as yet another cute cafe place good enough for youth crowd to hang out and vibrant each n every corner to give that buzz all around. The colors and lighting were perfect to add to the vibe of the place. Neatly done in a short.

#Costing - Basic Flavors scoop - 99 ++ to premium flavors - 179++. Wide range of Toppings including the most amazing mini macaroons, baklava slices, churned hazelnut pralines with price ranging from 29++ to 49++. So they leave the customization to customer and so it could end up costing arnd 200 - 220 for scoop with multiple toppings. Pizzas cost from 249++ - 349++ (felt costly for the size and richness of the pizzas)

#MustTry - #BerriliciousCheesecake the ice cream interpretation of traditional cheese cake and for most part of it, they have perfected it. At 179++, I felt this was the best of the night. #RosePistachoKheer Flavor was King of flavors with dominant rose petal toppings infused in the churning. #RainbowConfetti Waffle to me was very interesting visually and also flavorwise something unique. They also had the dessert variant of it. #Pizzas - WE tried 4 of them and most of them had justifying flavors and nothing to complaint about except for the price justification for the size.

#Pricing - The quality is understood when you know about it but for a normal customer , it could be a perception or something that might go assumed. Pricing I felt was a little steep but each brand that comes form outside have been around this price point and we have seen brand following OK with it. I felt pizzas were over priced in any aspect. regular Churned Ice creams definitely had the home churned richness to it but at the end of the , it will have to be a customer's choice of Quantity over Quality :)

#Verdict - Would def recommend this place

1. If you looking for choice on ice cream & ice cream desserts and bored of regular brands
2. If you can or would appreciate quality of ingredients and focus on it than pricing
3. If you want to have unique flavors and crazy about toppings
4. If you want to relax and munch some nice pizzas and also have...

After hearing/watching about Huber & Holly’s Mighty Midas for so long, I longed to try out their Ice Cream laced with 24 carat gold. When I found out about my trip to Hyderabad, I was excited and determined to visit their outlet no matter what. However as luck would have it, the place I had to stay at during my time in Hyderabad was 40 kms. away from the city.

Luckily on the day of my flight, I was able to sneak out a couple of hours and convinced (bribed) my cousin to take me. From the outside Huber & Holly seems like any other ice cream parlor, in fact the entire lane in Banjara Hills consists of only ice cream parlors!

As soon as we entered, we were greeted with a picture showcasing the Mighty Midas ice cream and right next to it, were some of the finest looking desserts I have ever seen like Truffle Oh! and Strawberry Bombshell.

We finally made our way towards the counter all the while admiring the different flavors, toppings, and syrups and wondering what our order would contain. After billing me for INR 1058, we saw how 18 different components were used in it’s making. Obviously we were too preoccupied in looking at how the once empty cone became an work of art, but some of the ingredients that went into making it were as follows – Brownies, Caramelized almonds, Nutty Praline, Rocher balls, Hot fudge, Belgian Dark Chocolate, Hazelnut chocolate, Raspberry rose sorbet macaroon and a hint of passion fruit keeps the sweet quotient within limits. Finally, it was layered with a 24-carat gold foil, and then cooled for 5 minutes so that the foil would stick to the ice cream.

We weren’t done yet though, because my cousin and I had our eyes on two more toppings we wanted to be added to this already near diabetic dessert – Ruby Nutties and Golden Hazelnut Nutties

Huber & Holly is located opposite to KBR park in Banjara Hills, Hyderabad. Its quite easy to spot this place. The decor of this place is something we must talk about. Innovative yet fun is what describes the ambience the best. As you enter you can find an assortment of desserts and a live ice cream station with digital hoardings depicting all their specialties. What I found fun and innovative was how they turned milk-cans into chairs. Its a pure vegetarian restaurant and me being an ardent non-vegetarian, I was a bit disappointed on hearing this. Hey! but let me tell you how my experience turned out to be first-class. I ordered Truffled mac 'n' Cheese since I was craving for some pasta. I have had mac 'n' cheese a billion times from various places but nothing could beat this one. This is that one dish that I absolutely enjoyed eating every bite that I took. Never did I think pasta could taste like silk until I had this one. The roasted truffle on top was heaven on earth. There were no vegetables, seasoning or anything extra. Just Mac 'n' Cheese !! Guys, this is something you should NEVER miss out. As my pasta was almost gonna get over, and I was still hungry, I decided to order a pizza. I tried the BBQ Smoked Cottage Cheese. The crust looked like it was competing with paper to see which was thinner. Perfection in every angle is how I would describe this.The main reason I visited Huber & Holly was to try their Signature 24 carat gold leaf ice cream. You can see them make it live in front of your eyes! The ice cream consists of 7 scoops of golden vanilla and Belgian chocolate ice cream with 17 assortment of toppings filled inside the con and a beautiful leaf of 24 carat gold to top it off. Few of the toppings that I remember were, raspberry jello, dark chocolate cubes filled with caramel, Huber & Holly sprinkles, hazelnut crunch, chocolate...