Dining at The Feast India Co is worth the experience. Located on the junction of Vasanth Nagar and Cunningham Road, Feast India Co is a 92-year-old family home that has been converted into the restaurant and serves Awadhi cuisine. Both the ambience and the fare have been designed in the theme of royalty.
The airy rooms with dark wood furniture, large rooms with high ceilings, the walls and pillars painted in pale colours, and a courtyard with a glass-panelled sky view, transports you to a different era.
Each room has a slice of heritage within it, in the form of stunning art work, antique furniture and mirrors, and artefacts. The name Feast India Co, as you might have guessed, is a play on East India Company, thus suggesting that the dining experience is akin to Colonial, royal times. This in itself puts Feast India Co above the rest.
The menu design is classic and lists an exhaustive array of dishes from appetisers to main course, from different kinds of rice and roti preparations to desserts.
We start with the galawat ke kebab . The kebab is authentic as it is prepared on a mahi tawa , the Awadh version of a griddle to get the perfect melt-in-your-mouth consistency.
We are then served tikka banno , which is chicken kebab made of beaten egg and spiced with fenugreek. We are informed that only ghee is used to prepare the food, and not a drop of oil is used and that spices are used to flavour to not overwhelm the taste of the food. The best part of the menu is that there are both non-vegetarian and vegetarian versions of the fare.
We next try hara tawa kebab made of spinach, vegetables, and lentils, flavoured with aromatic spices, which is a mouthful of tastes and textures.
We are next served the main course of palak paneer , which is made of the softest paneer that is prepared in-house. The laal maas , a traditional Rajasthani lamb preparation, with sheermal, rotis made of saffron, is delicious for the blend of spices and succulent mutton. The dal makhani lives up to its reputation of being a signature dish of Feast India Co.
A description of dal makhani would not do justice to it, it has to be savoured. There are biryanis and curries to be chosen from the menu. But we are stuffed and move onto the dessert. The phirni has a fine consistency and tastes quite different from regular phirni . We end our meal satisfied with the excellent fare and warm hospitality.
