The menu is diverse and the food authentic at GK ii's Souza Lobo
The menu is diverse and the food authentic at GK ii's Souza Lobo
I have always believed that apart from Bengali cuisine, most other regional cuisines taste best when eaten in that region. You can only fully appreciate well-made gushtaba in the biting cold of Kashmir, enjoy sinful Malabari paratha with chilly beef lazing in the backwaters of Kerala, and be thankful for the ghee in the baati to make up for the poor choice of vegetable and meat in central India. Thus, I went to Souza Lobo, the already-popular Goan food restaurant that has recently opened in GK II, with some questions.
Didn't miss the shacks
Would the prawns taste as nice without the sand and unholy volumes of beer? Did I have enough mind space, even though I had made time on a Sunday, for a lazy lunch? Was I willing to eat fried pork sausages at anything but a shack? As it always is with anything remotely connected with Goa, it all turned out just as fine as fine can be.
Au00a0moment of Peace
I dislike eating at GK II M block market because of its schizophrenic nature: why are there so many restaurants amidst shops peddling sanitary ware? But though it is on the first floor to which you have to get to through the usual Delhi narrow staircase, the ambience at Souza Lobo is as Goa as you can get in Delhi. There are not too many tables and these are solid wood painted a pleasant lime green (good thing), acoustics are lousy (bad thing), the service is slow (both good and bad depending on how you look at it), and there was more Diet Coke doing the rounds than beer (a very bad thing).
Loved fishing
Though the menu is diverse, what else can you eat but seafood at a Goan food place? We ordered the Goan masala fried prawns (there should be no other kind) and batter fried squid. I expected better quality of prawns at a place specialising in seafood but the masala was -- to use a term only twenty somethings use for food -- kickass. The batter squid, was, well, squid.
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A mixed feeling
The pomfret reicheiad came highly recommended and lived up to its reputation. But the masala rava fried fish was ordinary and the sausage chilli fry was a big disappointment -- and I swear by sausages in any form, plain boiled even. But the sole curry (kingfish) was mellow and paired with the steamed rice just the way decadence does with Goa. We wanted to stay for dessert but the service, though warm, was slow and we had run out of time: we ate all that in an hour and a half. But overall, I had a good meal and I will return to Souza Lobo on a lazy winter Sunday that the changing Delhi weather is definitely promising me.
Where: M-51, 1st floor, M block Market, Greater Kailash II
timings: 12 pm - 3 pm and 7pm -12 am
Ring: 46106838 / 839
Meal for two: Rs 2000
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