One thing common to foodies is that they all love to travel to find something worth eating.
Well, being one of them, I also travelled to the busy Delhi–Jaipur highway, where, just before Manesar, Hyatt Regency Gurgaon is located. I went to review their recently launched restaurant Kitchen District. With five live kitchens, Kitchen District offers a wide array of dishes catering to different palates.
The restaurant space is massive; it has an eclectic mix of seating styles ranging from sofas to high chairs beautifully upholstered in leather and fabrics in shades of bright yellow, grey and fawn. The space also offers privacy to its discerning guests through its private rooms.
Glancing through the menu confused me, so I took the chef’s help and decided to taste two dishes from each kitchen.
For salad, I chose Nicoise which had perfectly cooked tuna. It was so well done that I admired its colour for a while. Popular Malaysian import laksa lacked in spice levels as well as the flavour of coconut. As it’s a curry soup I always prefer it thick.
Sushi and sashimi is a section I like to spend some time with. Tuna, salmon and yellow tail were my choices for the day. I enjoyed each of them and moved towards some Indian starters.
The chef said, “most of our offerings are from the coastal regions”, which, for a seafood lover like me, was really good news.
I enjoyed the sutta meen –– wrapped in banana leaf and finished in tandoor –– down to the last bite. Keeping it wrapped in the leaf kept the moisture and juices intact. Chaap tazzar, basically lamb chops made like burrah, were good but a tad chewy. I think the chef didn’t use the tenderiser, but in that case he should have increased the marinating time or cooked it twice.
From the rotisserie in the western section, roasted chicken with rosemary and marinated eggplants were just perfect.
I mashed the eggplant and used it as a dip with the crispy tender chicken and it tasted delicious.
Kai kari kurma and era varuval paired with kal dosa was the perfect combination to end my the gastronomic journey.
I must admit that their coastal food was worth every bite. A jar of tiramisu, the classic Italian dessert, helped me leave the hotel with a great aftertaste.
Meal for two: Rs.3000 plus taxes
