I went to Mayur, with mum, for their Special Weekend Thali. We went two Saturdays in a row as the second time around my masi was keen on having a veg thali. Both mum and masi wanted something similar to the Samrat thali in Mumbai, hence, Mayur was the only choice I could think of.
The thali wasn't great the first time but it definitely wasn't bad either. Decent, is how I'd term it. The Palak Paneer, Khichdee, Rabdi and Malpua were pretty good. Of the Dal Bati, the dal was quite good but.. the Bati sucked. It was so hard we could barely crumble it. I'd happily use it as a rock, if ever, I need to knock someone out.
The second time, though, nothing about the thali felt 'special', except the service. Very, very average food. The Dal and Mixed Lentils were not bad. The Hara Bhara Kebab was anything but that. I've known simple Udipi restaurants to make way better ones. The Paneer was soft malai paneer but the gravy was overly sweet.
The thing that put me off completely, though, was that the dishes were served at room temperature, instead of piping hot. I barely took 15 seconds to half a minute to click the pic so had they served piping hot food, it could not have gone cold so fast. They assembled the full thali quite quickly so that, too, cannot be a valid reason for the room temperature food. The jalebis were served at room temperature when, in fact, they could have been served hot. Would've made such a difference had they done so. It felt like, 'restaurant chal toh raha hai, chalne do; we don't need to make any special effort to retain the quality'. Sad, coz I've had their thali years ago and it used to be superb! Alas, not any more! :(
The first thali was 'kinda' worth the 450 bucks i paid for it; the second one, definitely not! If they charge you more over the weekend and call it a 'special' thali then they actually need to get their act together and make it 'special'. Not going back there for a long time.
Address: 2434, East Street, Pune
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