amidst covid, with the world slowly restarting, one is more cautious than usual, while dining out. this is why we chose delhi heights@starling mall, noida, because we were expecting superior safety measures and great food.
although the service was top rate and staff extremely courteous, the food did not measure up to our expectations. we ordered pizza al greta which was bland and even the scant basil leaves and much loved(by me) sun-dried tomatoes failed to perk up the overall taste. the good stringy cheese overpowered every other ingredients and the almost non-existent sauce only registered it presence in the red tinge of the otherwise crispy base, not to mention the feta that didn't taste it's usual salty self.
as they did not have bacon for a chicken-bacon club, we went for a veg club sandwich. it tasted mediocre with somewhat dry barely toasted thick slabs of 'artisnal' brown bread, sandwiching the usual cucumber coins, and other veggie mish mash in a mayo-like dressing.
a pita-falafel-hummus has become a classic nibble platter to the table even at home for us. we really do love a good hummus and even slather it on our sandwiches, but this one at delhiheightswas a miserable cousin that almost all cafe-restaurants in ncr seem to have nailed. we sent back hummus first time for it tasted a little off. they came back with the lemon being a tad too much and that they would fix it.
fix they did, but it wasn't the lemon but the actual chickpeas that were mashed up right on the verge of going bad. the hummus had that monsoon-y off taste of oversoaking.
the only thing that we really liked was the minty lemonade- lemony, not very minty but quite zingy.
with the already limited menu, we expected that they would do a great job of other dishes but it was disappointing, not the dine out experience we were looking for.