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Updated On: 04 January, 2010 07:50 AM IST | | Daipayan Halder
Olive only gets better with every new menu and year
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Olive only gets better with every new menu and year
The invitation to sample the new winter menu at Olive Beach brought back old memories. A D Singh's restaurant off Carter Road in Mumbai was a favourite haunt -- to catch up with friends from the city, and those who visited from out of town. Geographical barriers were never a hindrance as all agreed to meet and eat at this rustic Mediterranean restaurant. Maybe it was just that, the earthiness about Olive Bar & Kitchen, which appealed to us beings of the concrete jungle. As I walked into Olive Beach in the capital on a cold winter night, I realised it was that, and much more.
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As your boots crunch the white gravel and you sit at a blonde wood table, you feel this is where you should have been eating all your life |
As your boots crunch the white gravel and you sit at a blonde wood table, you feel this is where you should have been eating all your life.
Though the chef was away, our mau00eetre d more than made up for the absence. He suggested Mediterranean soup, and offered us wine while we waited. San Medin Cabernet Sauvignon from Chile, "the king of red grapes", he said, while he served us two glasses. I knew that but was glad he knew too. In fact, not just the mau00eetre d, even our server knew just what we should order. And the best part? The wife, who usually hates being told what she should order, didn't really mind.
The soup, with prawn, calamari and basa, was thick and came at just the right temperature -- I didn't cool it and took a spoon as soon as it arrived, with no oral damage.
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