Gulmohar Bar & Curryhouse — Restaurant in Pune

Went yesterday to have dinner. Waited OVER AN HOUR to be seated. Food was WAY below average for a place that charges soooo much for food. The manager recommended some cauliflower starter, which was nothing but cauliflower sautéed in some spices for ₹425. Zero creativity. Literally something that you can make at home in less than 5 minutes. Unfit to be in a "fine-dine" restaurant menu. Please note that there were three of us, so we were served two-three small to medium sized florettes of cauliflower each. Also, soup was served AFTER the starter. 2-3 florettes of broccoli were boiled in green coloured water in a bowl which was not suitable for soups. I didn't know THAT was soup. The main course was just about average. I would not recommend this place to anyone looking for a fine dine experience.

There's a lot of movement within the restaurant, of servers/waiters/managers/ushers/captains/hosts. But, nothing gets done. You have to wait for someone to get your attention because there is no salt, or pepper on your table. You have to ASK for water to be replenished. Also, they do not serve finger bowls. Instead you have those wet towels in plastic sachets that you tear with your greasy hands, a little unbecoming in my opinion. Call me old school, but a greasy towel sitting on the table while you have a post dinner banter with your chaps is unsightly, so we left immediately.

We spent approximately 2k for a total of 7 items, the breakup of which is: 1 starter (at least that's what they called it), 2 soups (the aforementioned green broccoli water), 1 very average main paneer dish with literally 3 medium sized pieces in it, and nothing Bengali about which, plus 3 naans.

Please note that this place charges "service tax" , S.GST, and C.GST.

There are far better restaurants out there, that serve not just better food, but still better ambience, at a palatable-(no pun intended) for-the-food price.

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This restaurant is a wannabe Michelin star but no where near 😬. The food is unlike any other ordinary restaurant but less portions, I bet you will not be happy with that.🤨 Looking at the menu card costs I had high expectations. But turned out to be no different than an ordinary tea served in a decorated cup.

We had some chicken for starter which had some pungent odor to it, hated that. Midway through our lunch, waiter stops by to ask our kids(4,5 yr olds) to stop running around stating other diners were disturbed (was not polite 😏) turns out the owner was sitting himself on a table doing some math calculations, looked tense🤷‍♂️, and we were quick to realize where that came from. I’d recommend you guys to put up a disclaimer for that to save fellow diners the misery. Ordered some main course either ways, and the portion of the curry was as expected, very less, god saved us this time it tasted better. But blimey the size of the naan that accompanied it, was not upto the mark. Also the roti should be called a “pappad” instead. This was enough for us to be let down.

Stewardess ‘Gayatri’ was very humble and welcoming.👏

but sorry to see all of them looked ‘over worked’.🥹

Not At All Coming Back! There are far more better places in the vicinity.

Adding more to the story, my friend posted a prior review of this place on Zomato. To which they replied stating the kids were asked to sit after “hours” of complains, and that the restaurant is not a playground. That explains the problem 🤷‍♂️. kids didn’t run through the place more than 10-15 mins 😬, and how much time does it take for a person to have lunch?...