Sonia Rodrigues tracks down four city hot spots to step in for the hottest sizzlers in town

Sonia Rodrigues tracks down four city hot spots to step in for the hottest sizzlers in town

Pepper steak at Yoko Sizzlers
This tiny eatery with dim lighting and a quiet ambience is perfect for indulging in a bout of nostalgia.
Their specialities:
Veg Satellite: It includes vegetables like cabbage, spinach, carrots, French beans, peas, tomato and a veg pattie served with mushroom sauce. Potatoes are served either fried or mashed. The vegetables are sauted in the sauce.
Pepper Steak: It includes a beef steak saut ufffded in pepper sauce, served with vegetables and potatoes, which are either fried or mashed. The steak is well-cooked and juicy insideu00a0 as well as crusty outside. The other sizzlers available are Chicken Yoko Style, Yoko Special Chicken and Sea-Food Sizzler.
At: Yoko Sizzlers, G-3, fifth avenue, Dhole Patil Road.
Call: 9373337759
Price: Rs 230 to Rs 400

Paneer and vegetable shaslik sizzler at Cream Centre
Cream Centre is a 50-year old eatery that began on Mumbai's Chowpatty. The well-lit ambience and comfortable seating arrangement with open air arrangement as an option makes this place a perfect for family outing. They only serve vegetarian sizzlers.
Their specialities:
Mexican Fajita Sizzler: A sizzling platter of garden fresh vegetables, American corn and paneer saut ufffded in a Mexican herbed tomato sauce.
Paneer Shaslik: A platter filled with cubes of tandoor cottage cheese, capsicum, tomato, onion, accompanied with potato chips, freshly steamed and grilled vegetables, saut ufffded onions topped with garlic sauce, served with noodles or rice. The other sizzlers they serve are Sizzling Vegetable and Vegetable Satellite Sizzler.
At: Cream Centre, Kalyani Nagar.
Call: 40180000
Price: Rs 109 to Rs 199

Kid Sizzlers at Bounty
At this cosy two-storey eatery, you can sit in the open air or at the restaurant where the tables are crammed besides each other. If you head upstairs, heed the low ceiling to avoid a bump on your head. Their sizzlers are worth every penny you pay and are served with generous amounts of vegetables and potatoes (smashed or fried). If you are not too hungry, ask for the Kid Sizzler, which is smaller in size compared to the regular one.
Their specialities:
Veg Italiano: A sizzling-hot smoky pan filled with spaghetti, mixed in tomato base sauce and topped with melting mozzarella cheese.u00a0
Chicken Shaslik: Roasted chicken in pepper sauce is served with plain rice. It includes fried mushroom, paneer, peas, tomatoes and hot French fries. Their USP is the Garlic Steak Satellite.
At: Bounty, Kalyani Nagar.
Call: 26613360 / 26611758
Price: Rs 240 to Rs 300

Barbeque chicken square sizzler at Yana
This smallish joint on Fergusson Road is split into two floors with an open kitchen and dining area on the ground floor and an additional dining area on the upper floor. In the Kalyani Nagar outlet, the eatery is larger in size with spaced out tables spread across the entire place.
Their specialities:
Veg Mix Grill: The hot sizzling pan is filled with vegetables like American sweet corn, peas, spinach, mushrooms, roasted cottage cheese, carrots, onions, cabbage, pineapple and cauliflower with some French Fries. The base is made of rice saut ufffded in pepper sauce along with a veg pattie and small Manchurian balls.
Barbecue Chicken: Cubes of barbecued chicken are served on a base of rice with vegetables and French Fries. They also serve Bouef Cube Steak, Chef's Special Steak, BBQ Tiger Prawns, Lamb Fillet BBQ and Lamb Steak with Chicken and Cheese.
At: Yana, Mariplex, Vadgaon Sheri, Kalyani Nagar; 1181, FC Road, Surya Bhavan, Shivaji Nagar.
call: 56092451 / 56013897
price: Rs 260 to Rs 550