The entrance to Earth Cafe. Pics/Datta Kumbhar

Four friends and a cat walk into a restaurant, and what follows turns out to be a joke of an experience. Or at least that's how it feels as we exit earth Cafe, a new pet-friendly eatery in Powai, after a meal that's as average as an Adam Sandler film. But let's take it from the top, from when we enter the al fresco eatery with our friends and Kulfee, the cat, who is on the verge of throwing a hissy fit after being brought all the way from Versova enclosed in a basket. Now, after finally being let out, he's been put on a leash, which clearly isn't going down well. So we ask for a fish cake from the "Pets" section of the menu, hoping that it will lift his spirits.