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SEAMLESS CHOICE Soups, salads, bakes, desserts... seek and you shall find at Café Y
Choice is always a frustrating factor. And when it comes to choosing food, it's the devil's dilemma — if you have a choice of two evils, you often choose both. Because there's one hell of a choice and the food's sinful.
At Café Y, we are talking indulgent food. Lots of cheese-based sauces, lots of cheese and lots more cheese — you know it when you see a menu that has triple cheese bake, fried steak (in creamy cheese sauce), potato wedges, chilli cheese loaf, saffron buttered rice, layers of sheet pasta baked with cheese on top and the like!
The seamless choice on the menu is categorised as soups, salads, bakes, desserts, Side Walk (that ropes in sausages, breads, potatoes in every imaginable form), ham and bacon strips, all time favourites such as London fish `n' chips, grilled chicken, salsa lamb, roast pork in apple sauce and more.
Not that there's all cheese and fat and all things simply loaded, and nothing else. Their choice from the "world's tureen" (soups) and "green things" (salads) are also exhaustive. Starting with the humble mulligatawny, the menu grows to the veggie and pasta loaded robust minestrone, the classic French onion, and the exotic gazpacho (a cold Spanish soup with a distinct white wine and garlic flavour), the beefy Hungarian ghoulash, Scotch broth and consommes.
The sunny yellow and orange interiors will only egg you on to eat more. The café opens into a pebble-paved barbeque area where weekends are rife with chicken and tuna, tofu and pineapple cooked over a hardwood fire with exotic marinades, sauces and dips.
Meat-lovers will swear that Café Y's steaks, sizzlers and chops are what you should die for. Whether it's the classic chateaubrian supreme grilled to perfection with green pepper sauce or the salisbury steak lyonnaise served with white wine veloute sauce topped with olives. All steaks come with assorted veggies, your choice of potatoes or French fries. The Fusion Flair Sizzlers offer veg and non-veg platters based on French, Italian, Mexican, and well, even Indian and Chinese cuisine — a choice of meats, vegetables, rice and sauce.
If this endless stream of choice overwhelms your gastronomic senses and digestive capability (Read: if you need to get back to work), settle for a wholesome salad with your soup. The classic Russian salad seasoned with mayonnaise, the pasta-based Milano salad, the evergreen Ceasar's salad may be good choices for vegetarians. Sea-food lovers will appreciate the shrimp cocktail salad with blanched prawns; or the tuna fish, veggies and boiled egg salad — the Nicoise salad.
Café Y's new menu is also high on a do-it-yourself mode. If you don't like the combos on the menu, create your own. You can design and select ingredients for your own salad and the pasta. A group of mommies meeting here will be happy to know that their Kiddies Nook caters to three to 12 year olds. Their burgers, toasts, rolls and no-mess sandwiches come in smaller portions just right for them.
Start with their choice of coolers and end with a chocolaty desert served with as sweet a smile, and it makes a nice place for a combo of good insatiable friends, good food, good music — what you need for a good life. And in case you are feeling guilty for having indulged beyond hope, tell yourself and all others staring at you what American humourist Erma Bombeck has to say: "I am not a glutton, I'm an explorer of food".
Café Y is at 22/2, Langford Road, Langford Town. Call: 51144561.
Ambience: Sunny
Service: Cheerful
Specialty: Steaks and sizzlers
Wallet Factor: A filling meal for two may cost around Rs. 500.
B.K.
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