evenings have always been my fav n comfortable time of the day to go out in search of good cafes or icecreamoutlets. n today was no exception. as soon as i got out of a sickeningly long (4 freaking hrs!) meeting, i rang up vaishnavi rao asking her to get out of her office right away without even a place in my mind. at the same time another friend called up for a coffee. but as the place he had in mind was on the other end of city from vaishu's place, we made a quick decision to treat ourselves with ice cream. the options that came to my mind were two n haagen dazs won the delightful battle :)
the less than 5mins drive from my office seemed to take forever due to heavy traffic but of course häagen dazs is definitely worth it.
they have huge space for parking so no worries on that part.
we had the visual treat before we could satisfy our insatiable icecreamneeds!
huge pictures of delicious ice creams n bradley cooper adorned the walls. the intricate designs on the glass partitons were beautiful. their ad was being played on the tvs. the place is quite big, tables n seatings pretty cozy.
the place was empty except for a table occupied by a couple.
as vaish n ram started browsing through their album like menu n placed their orders in a jiffy, i pestered our kind waitress with loads of questions. as i wasn't satisfied with the options, left the table to look at the display freezers. the desserts looked inviting. but i was disappointed with their very limited options of icecreamflavours.
almost same flavours filled the freezers on both sides n few trays were sealed :( after looking at the options many times as though new one would pop up magically :p i lost my patience as they kept suggesting me two flavours in particular, macadamia n vanilla even though i informed them that i dislike the latter n not a big fan of the former! i went to our table asking the waitress to suprise me.
vaish had ordered belgian choc n vanilla scoops with choc syrup- b.choc was awesome n vanilla was, well vanilla. the syrup truned out to be amazing so we used it as a topping for all our ice creams.
ram had cup (forgot the name) of strawberry n summer berry scoops with freshcreamn cookies. he loved the summer berries so much that he ordered one more scoop of that.
mine was a glass which had raspberry sorbet(lovely for me n too tangy for the others), mango(bland) and again freshcreamn cookies. it was a bit irritating cos both our glassware had huge amout of cookies which we struggled to finish. but the flavours were really rich n authentic :)
the guy who was behind the counter came to our table while we were about to leave enquiring about how i liked the flavours he had chosen for me n also informed again that he couldn't offer much as the flavours they had were too limited.
we got to know that they are expecting 2 or 3 more flavours by next week n were promised that we will enjoy them more :)
when it comes to pricing, they are a bit on the higher end which may be accepted considering the quality of flavours. but i am not sure about their biiling though. service charge had been entered with the list of items and vat n service tax were loaded on the total. so am confused a little with that norm :/
ratings:
location : 5/5
parking : 5/5
ambience : 4/5
food : 3.5/ 5
service : 4/5
price : 4 / 5