Car-Go Bites — Restaurant in Kerala

Tried this plate out on a whim and absolutely loved the food. You reach here by entering Le Meridien and taking a left. There is tons of parking here which is a huge bonus. The view around you is pretty much Crowne Plaza, Le Meridien itself and the Sunset Cinema 'hall'. The ambience and menu is pretty much food-on-the-go, served in easily pickable containers.

Coming to the food, we tried a variety which I will explain here. We started with the attinkal (mutton trotter) soup. Like the tomato basil soup, this is served in a bread bowl. It's piping hot and packs a lot of flavour. Of the two soups, I personally loved the mutton better.

The classic nachos were a pleasant surprise - gracious amounts of cheese and way better than your default movie theater variety nachos. I'd recommend it.

Caribbean chicken drumsticks were 3 pieces a plate and were nice and tender and the masala on top was quite nice.

The classic Buffalo chicken wings were again a nice flavour and go great with French fries (we ordered fries separately but honestly, you get some with pretty much every dish here! The fries are again thick and the right texture and flavour)

There are over 8 sauces (aoili, mint, cocktail etc) which add a nice zing to your starter dishes.

The travancore fried chicken wrap was a nice flavour too as was the penne meatballs. Of the lot, I preferred the double beef burger - it was so juicy and quite filling.

We tried their brownies and creme brulee a la Sri Lanka - the former was a rich Brownie while the latter has a nice hit of cardamom. Their cold coffee bottle can serve 3 at least and is actually not very sweet, which is good.

The rates are on the higher side but then, these are the same Chefs and team from Le Meridien and it shows in the quality of their food.

But for those still looking for a bargain deal, I'd suggest finding the team to eat there between 4 - 7 pm (it's flat 50 percent off) at which point all of this becomes a...

I tried their mutton bread soup, cheese chicken nachos, double beef burger and cheese cake. I really liked the nachos cause they were very crispy even though the cheese & chicken were covering it and they happen to use some sort of jalapeno sauce over it. The soup was only okayish, maybe cause it tasted like a curry basically. The burger didn't use a beef patty, instead used a pressure cooked beef (the restaurant dude did mention it won't be a patty when I gave the order), so it tasted very bland. Cheesecake tasted fine but the it's consistency was lil off, maybe cause they used cake batter along with the cream cheese while preparing (from the look and texture I first thought it's a baked cheesecake, maybe it must have been one😜). Overall I felt like the dishes were way too "nadan" taste embedded in it even though I ordered continental dishes. Maybe they are trying fusion taste to their dishes. Either ways it didn't come up to any of my taste preferences.

PS- I totally love nadan dishes, but when I crave and order for pancakes & maple syrup, I won't tolerate if my pancake & syrup smell and taste like...

Car-go / Drive-through model with lot many flops. No hand wash / sanitizer facilities anywhere near the outlet. To do handwashing either needed to go to Le Meridien Hotel Lobby which is too far from the kiosk, else to do with paper napkin.

Secondly, bottled beverages and drinking water charged multiple times higher than MRP, which is against law and also punishable offence. For their menu items they can put their price, but for bottled items charging so high is not acceptable.

We tried 3 menu items there, and all the 3 items, qualitywise not upto the mark of Le Meridien or Club Marriott cusine. (Yes, the outlet is of Club Marriott, in the premises of Le Meridien).

It is good vibe for a late night food, but food is below average quality (compared to similarly priced outlets) and above average rates.

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