Usually, when we plan a trip, I do a lot of research about
the place. As in, what places to sight see and where to eat what are the
experiences that we should take back as memories with us, etc. Needless to say,
I did a similar thing while planning the mini bachelorette trip too.
Now,
Pondicherry, as you know is famous for everything
French, including the food! We had a lot of restaurants on our “to-visit” list,
and only 2 days to visit them. So, on day 2 of our trip, we decided to go
restaurant hopping!
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| Streets of Pondicherry! |
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| Entrance of Cafe des arts |
Ambience: beautiful, rustic and homely
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| inside case des arts |
Service: a bit sloppy, lazy staff
Food (What we ordered) : Banana Nutella Waffles- waffles
were a disappointment, they were rubbery. Only the banana and Nutella gave
flaour to the dish!
Pondy Tartines: Spicy chicken shreds with onions olives and cheese on a an
extremely HARD sub of bread. Though it tasted pretty good, it was not at all
edible because the sub was hard for human teeth to break through it!
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| Banana Nutella waffles and pondy tartines! |
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| Ready for pizza!! |
Ambience: Nothing great, probably one of the very few
restaurants in Pondicherry that have AC
Service: Friendly staff, and quite quick service
Food (What we ordered) : Since we were just two of us, we
ordered just 1 pizza. I don’t remember the name ☹
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| PIZZA!! |
But it sure
was tasty. Fresh woodfired pizza, but the only con is that it looses its charm
once the pizza is cold. Once cold, it tastes like roti, with pizza toppings (
not very interesting, I know!). If you are lucky, you might spot some celebs, like
we spotted Kunal Roy Kapoor here :)
Ambience: The café is
sea facing and right on the promenade. But they could do better cleanliness
wise.
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| The Promenade from Le Cafe |
Service:This is a self-service café.
Food (What we ordered): Chocolate milkshake, is avoidable.
Chocolate brownie with vanilla ice cream and chocolate syrup- This was just the
opposite of the chocolate milkshake. So very delectable, so palatable, the hot
and cold mixture was an amazing feeling. I could have at least 3 more before my
stomach would be full!
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| Brownie with vanilla ice cream! |
Ambience: This restaurant is so beautiful. Painted in bright
yellow. They have also kept a colourful scooter inside to compliment the bright
yellow walls. I instantly fell in love with this place.
Service: The staff was very active and explained each dish
very well, which helped us make the choice of the dish we want.
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| That scooter <3 |
Food (What we ordered) :Laccha Tokri. Since we were tired of eating all
kinds of bread since 2 days, we decided to have something with indian spices.
Hence, we chose this restaurant. Unfortunately, we went at the wrong time and
were forced to order chaats. Lachcha Tokri was similar to Raj Kachori that you get anywhere in India. But it
sure was refreshing from the regular bread that we had been eating.
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| Lachcha Tokri |
Ambience: Tiny, cozy place, with choclate everywhere you
look. The butterflies you see in the image below, believe me, they are made of
chocolate!
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| Chocolate butterflies |
Service: Quick and enthusiastic staff
Food, or rather, Desserts (What we ordered here) :
Butterscotch tart- Yummy is an understatement
Zebra pastry, which was a bit dry, but I still loved it!
Oh! How I love ZUKA!!
Ambience: Unmatched for!
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| <3 |
Service: Unmatched for!
Food (What we ordered) : Well, the food was the only let
down here at Club Mahindra resorts. We ordered French fries and a Margherita
Pizza. The fries were a bit too salty, but, that how I like my fries- “Crispy
salty”. Pizza on the other hand was bland! But since it was full of mozzarella
cheese, though I did not love it, I sure did like it.
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| Again- PIZZA!! |
And finally, one last time before we left Puducherry, We had
breakfast at Club Mahindra, which was worth the money. We had pancakes, various
croissants, sausages, live counter for eggs and dosas , idli, upma and fresh
fruit juices.
The pancakes were good, but the let down was that they served them with Honey
instead of Maple syrup. The cheese omelette was bland and not edible. The fresh
fruit juices, the soft and fresh croissants and the chicken sausages made up
for what was not good.
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| Good-Bye Pondicheery! |
All in all, we had a great culinary experience in
Pondicherry. Now, that I have seen everything in Pondicherry, I would go back
there only for Auroville, The Promenade, Bay of Buddha and to try more food!
