Backdrop:

Our office location is shifting from South Mumbai, Express Towers to Lower Parel (Upper Worli - as some tight assed people now call it !). As the days to shift draw to a close, some of us like minded food lovers from office have decided to pay obeisance to the fine places to eat, which have been around and hopefully will continue their service to humanity (esp. foodies like us).

Date: October 30, 2007

Location 1: Apoorva

Cuisine: Coastal, Seafood, Malvani

Getting there: Vasta House (Noble Chambers), SA Brelvi Marg, Near Horniman Circle, Fort Mumbai- 1.

After much dilly-dallying, Kaivaan, Sreekanth, Rajeev, Mallika and myself agreed on Apoorva. In fact it was Kaivaan who kind of had pretty much made up his mind. I have been wanting to go to Olympia but somehow his superstitions come in the way. Sree and myself set out in a separate cab and as usual were walking around searching for the place while Kaivoo and the gang had already made it there. Apparently they had a foodie friend in the cabbie too, who wanted them to see other places on his list.

We were up on the 1 st level, which is air-conditioned. Decision making was driven by Kaivaan once again and we ended up ordering:

Prawns Koliwada, Chicken Lajawab, Chicken Biriyani, Surmai / King fish Fish Fry with curry rice (my choice), Pomfret fry, Neer Dosas

I was very keen on trying the squid fry or shellfish sukka, but somehow did not go ahead with it.

Prawns Koliwada: These were done well and for one, the quantity was much more than expectation.

Chicken Lajawab: I kind of liked this dish, although i had my apprehensions for dishes with names like Lajawab. This sounds weird but the chicken kind of reminded me of some of the stuff i had eaten around eat europe, the masala notwithstanding. Kaivaan felt the taste was more closer to butter chicken.

Chicken Biriyani : This was yummy and Sree in all his equanimity did a good job of putting it all away.

Surmai / KingFish fry: The size of the slice was awesome. I have not seen something so large being served as a slice of fish fry in a long time. The fish also was fresh, however there was something missing in the preparation and it did not give me the aha feeling!

Ranjan and Mallika tucked into the neer dosas quickly and had another go at it.

The most interesting part was the dessert, where we opted for a chocolate mousse (1 piece only). It was served in their small brass vati, in which they serve accessories.

All in all my rating would be 3 out of 5. Go here if you want to eat seafood, malvani cuisine. They also serve drinks. Quantities will not disappoint vis-a vis the prices which can be between @Rs.200 to Rs. 300 per person for a meal.