Ardor 2.1 — Restaurant in New Delhi

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Honestly speaking Ardor 2.1 was on my go to list for so long. I came to know about the place when I stumbled upon a video on YouTube showcasing India's largest thali in Delhi. Obviously this was enough for me being a foodie that I am to visit the place 🤩🤩🤩

Ambience:

Ardor 2.1 can be spotted easily as there is a huge board welcoming you in the busy roads of Cannaught Place 😋😋😋 The actual restaurant is a two storeys big. You have to take flight of stairs to reach the first floor which has indoor dine-in and the second floor has open roof dine-in available.

Since we visited when it wasn't very wise to opt for roof top we went into the 1st floor dine-in area. It has beautiful entrance door and then you are opened to a hig section which has beautiful interiors with quirky portraits. The most catching potrait was that of Rowan Atkinson edited on Chulbul Pandey's photo 😂😂😂 Also Monalisa in western and ethnic was a quite amusing 👍🤩🤩🤩

Place has beautiful sitting and brilliantly placed set up. Since we visited during corona times the place had sanitized cutlery well packed in the envelopes. Which is worth applause 👏👏👏

Staff:

Staff in Ardor 2.1 is courteous and helps you make your way to your desired seating area ASAP you step in the restaurant. So the staff is quick to show you directions regarding the ordering of the food. What is again very impressed is that the normal physical menu has been done away with. There is a scan card kept on each table for you to scan and see the menu and to choose your desired food dish.

Food:

Now comes the actual part. The thali reaches you within 20 minutes (approx) of waiting after the order has been placed. We got it before 20 minutes so I was very happy about it. Now the thali is quite huge. It is said it contains around 30-32 items. Well literally that is true but if you actually count it 7-8 dishes which is counted are mere sides like pickle, vineger onion, normal onion, chutney, papad, white radish carrot and cucumber, green chilli with lemon, curd, papdi chaat.

Starters:

Comes for 4 people. 4 paneer tandoori masala tikka, 4 paneer tikka, 4 hara kabab and 4 soya chaap.

Starter drinks included Hing pani aka jal jeera, Roohafza aka rose water drink, 4 glasses of soup.

*Starters cannot be repeated 👍

Main course:

Main course includes Daal Makhni, Malai kofta, Masala Bindhi, Masala Gobi, Punjabi Saag, Kadhi, Punjabi Chole, Daal tadhka, Paneer makhni, Paneer masala, Dum aloo.

Two type of Rice were served Biryani aka pulao and plain rice.

Basket of breads which had Butter Naan, Laccha Parantha, Tandoori roti and Missi roti.

Now comes the truth. The breads served were cold and tight. It was hard and took a lot of effort to chew. It was so disappointing that we had to ask for fresh breads since the ones served in the basket weren't at all eatable.

I believe the quality of the breads can be improved. Even the repeated Butter Naan weren't that good can be highly improved 👍

The main course can be repeated as many times as you want. It's unlimited 👍 Amazing but since you have to ask for dish again and again then you tend to loose appetite 😣😣😣

Smart move by the restaurant 👍😂😂😂

Price:

This is the most important thing to evaluate. When I saw the video it was around Rs. 1600/- for vegetarian thali and 2000/- for Non vegetarian thali. But if you are having this figure in mind then I will disappoint you saying the prices have been revised and now you have to pay around 2300 for vegetarian thali. We paid around Rs. 2470 inclusive of taxes and water bottles 👍

Well for me I wanted to venture into the adventure of having the Thali since it was made so viral but I guess it is fine for one time only. Well I have had better buffet at many places. The food also tastes much better than this place. Further if you are less than 4 people I would suggest to go for some good buffet instead of this Thali.

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Title: An Epicurean Journey Through Culinary Mastery: Ardor 2.1 Restaurant, Connaught Place's Crown Jewel

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First pros, why 2 stars... Lovely and unique Experience. Good quality food. Clean ambience Some dishes are very tasty like dal makhani, veg biryani, Rajbhog, momos etc. Now cons, why not five stars... Bad Service, forget to put spoons and we ordered soup, so the compliments with the soup like vinegar, soya sauce etc. Are coming late. Also we have to ask for water for more than 3 times in between, and the fridge was just 5 feet away from us but they don't care to listen or provide us, after the 4th enquiry a waiter just give the water from that fridge only. They do not ask for packed or RO water, they just provide you the 20 rs bisleri bottle with MRP of rs 20 but billed you Rs. 70+GST+Service Charge, they do have RO water, but they don't ask. Too much oil in the food, specially in. Aloo gobhi, paneer gravy and many more things. Too much sabut dhaniya (coriander seeds) in the kadi, which make it uneatable. Some food tastes not good like litti chokha, my friend is from bihar who was sharing table with me and I also had litti chokha many time but did not eat like that, one litti was so hard that it was hard to break it or chew. I also find it waste of food, although you can see the picture we had eaten everything, but the also when we reached the table, a guest before us left almost half of the food, and waste it just for the sake of experience, the restaurant like this are promoting wastage of food I guess.

Suggestion: can provide good service Provide Vedica or Himalayan or any other premium packaged drinking water for that cost Provide small quantities for all the items and make it refillable, and fix the maximum no. of persons allowed per plate or fix the refill quantities. Or make it both and can give the ball is customer's court to choose that what way they want... Try the regional food to be like it not what you like it or any other way... Please check the quantity of oil for...