i had been wanting to try amadora after reading rave reviews about this place and when my brother asked me to recommend a good dessert joint after lunch,i readily suggested amadora.
in hindsight it proved to be my bad as future events were to prove.
location: situated in a quiet cul de sac off wallace garden road in a narrow lane so parking is a hassle luckily we had our driver so that was a relief ,still we can go off the beaten path in search of good grub.
ambiance: the seating is predominantly high chairs like bar stools and a couple of low couches both of which didn't suit my mom so we were seated in a small private area with plastic chairs.
service: it is self service and when we ordered at the counter,the guy manning the billing area had no idea of what was available because many of the menu items like the devil' s food sundae,trifle etc were not there.
finally we had to ask them about the actually available desserts and based our order after ascertianing that .
we tried the highly rated underbaked cake with a scoop of ice cream,i chose the smores flavour rather than the regular vanilla.
i expected the cake to have a gooey centre and oozing instead it was a rectangle of soft ,ordinary chocolate cake,very underwhelming!
next tried the 5 vanilla bean raspberry cake which had a thin layer of chocolate cake as a base with vanilla icecream on top decorated with swirls of raspberry coulis.
it was ok.
my sister had the filter coffee ice cream milkshake and she said it was passable with a faint taste of coffee.
they did have a savoury menu so we decided to order some sandwiches when they informed us that they were not available ( should've known!!!) as their chef was off.
seriously ,the management should take care to see that atleast a majority of items should be made available if not why include them in the menu?
as far as the pricing is concerned,a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream sells for around rs 200 + which is pretty high considering the lack of service,usage of paper cups and disposable crockery .
my impression is that amadora is certainly not worth the hype or maybe i just caught them on a off day.