Boulevard — Restaurant in Pune

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Located on the Pune-Bangalore Highway, The Orchid Pune, is a five-star property and an Ecotel Hotel in India that exudes grace and luxuriance. Away from all the hustle-and- bustle of the busy city, The Orchid Hotel in Pune is at an ideal distance from many IT and software hubs in Pune - making it the business traveller's preferred choice of booking. Sprawled across six acres of stunning landscaped gardens, The Orchid Pune, is host to an assortment of world-class conference rooms, banquet halls, and outdoor lawns for events. The hotel, an instantly recognisable building on the Pune-Bangalore highway, is adjacent to Pune's only International Sports Complex makes it near-impossible to miss.

The Orchid was the first to launch the Midnight Buffet some years back when nobody had a similar concept. Recently they have Re-Launched the Midnight Buffet at Boulevard Coffee Shop. The BTeam was Invited to for the Tasting the Midnight Buffet which is just 499/- ++ Taxes.

The buffet was a lucullan feast and one of its kind. They had all, right from the Soups, Salads, Starters, Mains with a unique live counter and wide variety of desserts to spoil yourself.

I will just run you through the menu starting from the Soups- Roasted Squash & Almond Soup and Chicken Tom Yum Soup.

Starters were served on the Table: Tandoori Paneer and Veg Dumplings. Paneer was soft and well marinated.

Salads had a good spread which includes the non-veg variants as well.

Coming to Live Counter: As I mentioned earlier that they had a Unique Live Counter, They had a Hand Cart placed within the premises and they were serving Italian Pav Bhaji. We actually hogged on this !! Nicely cut Penne Pasta were tossed in PavBhaji with some Italian herbs and loads of Cheese/Butter. It was served with the homemade fresh and soft pav.

Mains: It was again a huge spread like Bhavnagari Salan and Indian Veg Stekar, Paneer E-Khas, Malaysian Stew Noodles, Steamed Rice and Dal Fry. My personal favourite was Paneer E-Khas and Malaysian Stew.

Desserts: Along with some delicious Cakes, Brownies they also had luscious Traditional Indian sweets like Ghewar and Angoori Rasmalai. They also serve Alcohol which is the Plus point and a reason to visit.

A big shout out to Neha for inviting us and Harshita and Team Boulevard for hosting us.

Disclaimer: I was invited for a complimentary food tasting event. This blog is a narrative of my experience at the event. These are my views that I have expressed in the blog. Others are most welcome to agree or disagree with the same. The blog is not personally or commercially influenced. I have not lifted, copied or plagiarised it from any source either. However, I have done my due diligence via publicly available information on the internet and as shared by the client/PR agency.

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We went to Orchid Pune for a short vacation. We reached on Sunday and went to have the Sunday brunch at boulevard. Orchid at Pune is a very beautiful and impressive place .It is situated near highway at Balewadi They have huge Sunday brunch spread from chaat counter, salads, starters, soups, Indian, Chinese and Continental and huge variety of desserts. Chaat counter they serve Pani Puri sev puri, bhel, padpi chaat, radga pattice, dahi batata puri n few more. They had salad counter with veg and non veg salads slices beet root, cucumber, carrots, olives; corn sprouts with variety of salad dressing. In Soups they had Cream of vegetable: It was creamy soup with finely diced exotic vegetables. Chicken talumein soup was amazing. Starters: In Veg starters BBQ cottage cheese: Paneer was soft sauce has nice tangy flavor. Baby corn salt and pepper: It was crunchy, little spicy Makhamali seekh kebabs. It was amazing it had perfect blend of spices, it was delicious.

Non veg starters: Basil chicken pesto balls and Murg Angarakha both were tasty and amazing.

Main course In main course there were Indian, Continental and Chinese dishes. Paneer nazami gravy. It was soft paneer cube, in gravy onion and dry fruit base gravy. it went well with roti Veg handi : it was mix vegetable in rich onion and tomatoes gravy, it was nice Kofta in red gravy. It was potatoes dumpling in rich tomato base gravy. Dal tadka: The dal was made with tomatoes and coriander it was flavoursome. They had steam and jeera rice

Chinese Vegetable basil noodles It was ramen noodles cooked to the perfection; it was loaded with vegetable like bell pepper, carrot, cabbage and spring onion. It was delicious. Stir fried veg in soya chilli sauce It had exotic vegetable like zucchini, baby corn. Broccoli, bell peppers in lip-smacking chilli soya sauce.

Continental Cauliflower and broccoli in creamy cheese sauce The Cauliflower and broccoli were sautéed to the perfection It was delicious In non veg mains They had Awad Mutton biryani, Murgh khada masala, grilled chicken in white sauce, Fish Green Thai curry. All were tasty and delicious.

They had huge variety of desserts Cream caramel blueberry shooter, blueberry frozen cake chocolate almond tarte, pista chocolate cake, mango gateau, milk chocolate pastry strawberry creamis kiwi Swiss roll, chocolate pudding Indian sweets like kala jamun, ras malai ,peda...

Writing the review to help the folks who might want to visit the place for launch or dinner. Sadly, Orchid restaurants ain't up to the mark anymore.

I have been to the Boulevard restro quite a few times in past. With the same expectations, I visited again along with my family and extended family members.

Unfortunately, they are now lacking badly on multiple fronts and also completely blurring the Star category tag of the property.

1- Arranging table for 5 adults and 1 kid took them almost 15 mins and that too with couple of reminders to do so. In fact in the very beginning the front desk manager totally missed to recognize a need to guide us to a table suitable for all the members.

2- For the dinner buffet, starters were required to be served on table. However, firstly the Staff did not even bother to inform us about it and ultimately we had to ask for the same. Secondly, the starters got served after 2 3 follow ups only. And this took a good 25 mins, ideally which was suppose to be ready considering the star tag that hotel carries.

In any of the lunch or dinner buffet, starters are served very swiftly and without and persuasion.

3- It was disheartening to see a few empty vessels at buffet platform. Surely staff wasn't aware of the need to refill the dishes. And I obliged to remind them about it.

4- I found the practice adopted by many other biggies wherein they assign at least 1 staffer to the table so that they cater to every need of their customer swiftly, happily. It was lacking here and literally no one was bothered about how customers are managing. Felt like we were treated like - be on your own and pay us.

5- We asked for Rotis, to rahance our exp they did not bring it until veggies in our plate got colder and some of us had already taken rice to move on. They took their own time to bring roti.

By this time hope and hunger had left us. And so we happily paid a hefty amount for such experience at the payment counter and moved on. This was like someone rubbing salt on your wounds. I was given a mere ten percent discount for the pain we had to be through.

Trust me many better restaurants are present in these areas, which are offering a value for money and are actually serving food with happiness.

For me this even doesn't...