When a new restaurant opens minus a starry launch party oraggressive pre-launch media campaign, and still runs to packed houses on a Tuesday evening, it deserves more than a dekko.

A restaurant critique doesn’t make for good television. Gossiping with friends, repeated glances at the menu, always in thought, attempts to figure the missing links to a dish; barring that moment of opinion after the first bite, there isn’t much to capture on camera. At the newly-opened international chain Trader Vic’s Mai Tai Mumbai outlet, however, a food critique would make for a fun reality television episode.