And at ₹ 1,300 a pop, you’re forgiven for feeling short-changed, and even gladder that you didn’t order the Sensei, which comes with the whopping price tag of ₹ 2,500. There’s no acid hit from the pineapple juice, the star anise is a gritty powder at the bottom, and you couldn’t find the rum in it with a spectrograph. Similarly, the otherwise excellent prawn dumplings float in a broth so thick, you could eat it with a fork.Īnd the cocktails-the La Vision, off the Only At menu, takes subtlety so seriously that you can’t taste any of its ingredients. There was no help to be found in its soggy innards either. The thousand-layer puff with sesame ( ₹ 425) comes with a greasiness you would expect in roadside spring rolls, effectively drowning the delicate, flaky pastry and bringing wave after wave of oil with every bite. Tempered with a coconut-lime ice cream and a white-chocolate parfait, it’s the refreshing finish you didn’t know you needed. The mango and coconut iced truffle ( ₹ 350) on a sablé cookie is a sweetly nostalgic throwback to the mango dollies of childhood. It’s great till the sizzling hot sauce at the bottom of the pot leaves scorch marks on your tongue. In the mains, the lamb and aubergine clay pot ( ₹ 750) melds meaty slices of aubergine with melt-in-your-mouth lamb for an unusual play on textures. It’s a dish we would come back for repeatedly, if it was not submerged in a questionable stock. But you will forget to complain when you bite into the gossamer-thin membrane barely holding together a plump morsel of prawn and crab. When it comes to the prawn dumplings with tobiko and crab meat ( ₹ 950), it isn’t apparent why it is exclusive to Mumbai. If you’re expecting Mumbaiyya touches to Cantonese dishes in the Only At menu, perish the thought. The twist? Jammy slices of yuzu that sing a citrusy counterpoint to the sweetness of the plum sauce.
The sliced roasted duck in plum sauce ( ₹ 1,600) had all the elements we know and love-succulent duck breast under a mantle of crisp skin, slathered generously, but not overwhelmingly, with sweet plum sauce. The refreshed menu puts subtle twists on classics. I wish they had retained the beautifully smooth avatar of Blue Ginger’s crème brûlée.Ī meal for three, inclusive of taxes (two cocktails, two appetizers, two mains, one noodle and one dessert) cost ₹ 6,735.Spicy Duck, Taj Palace Hotel, Sardar Patel Marg, Diplomatic Enclave (26110202). The Lemongrass Crème Brûlée ( ₹ 350) was eggy and powdery. The Braised Eggplant, Wild Mushroom, Water Chestnut Dou Ban Sauce In Clay Pot ( ₹ 700) had large chunks of vegetables that one could hardly taste because of another overpowering spicy sauce of pickled chilli. The Chilean Sea Bass, Szechuan Preserved Chilli Bean Paste ( ₹ 1,300) came in a yellow bean and chilli sauce that was oversalted. We searched high and low for the shrimp, but could not find any. As is the problem with most smoking-hot fried items, the minute they turn somewhat warm, the dish becomes chewy and tough. The staff recommended the Crispy Duck, Air Fried Shrimp Chef Leong Signature Infused Oil ( ₹ 1,050). The service was attentive, efficient and warm. Little sago bits floated around to add to the texture. A fresh, flavour-packed dish of pomelo, mango cream with a scoop of vanilla ice cream that sat in the centre. They came with a mildly flavoured garlic sauce and were delicate and fresh.įor dessert, the Pomelo Mango Sago ( ₹ 350) was outstanding. We started our meal with the Steamed Zucchini Dumpling ( ₹ 425)-four pieces of zucchini dumpling with crunchy bits of water chestnut for bite.