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Since the early years of the 21st century, there has been a continuous growth in the number of theme restaurants and bars across the various major cities of India. Restaurants and bars like Orient Express, Village, The Canton, Starstruck, Metro, Superstars, Champions and Sports Bar have been found to assume prominence in various cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and Hyderabad. "A thematic environment has become necessary, as people look to much more than food at an eating joint. The one hour at the place should not be spent simply looking at the walls or eating food", opines Manoj Mittal of Khana Unlimited.
Some
of the prominent international theme bars and restaurants
are the Buddha Bar, Pasha, Hakkasan and Momo. Buddha Bar is
a restaurant cum bar in Paris, and the venue is Buddha-themed.
The two-storeyed dining area has a large statue of Buddha.
The place has a large number of ornate dragons on display.
Buddha Bar mainly serves Chinese, Japanese and Thai cuisines.
The culinary theme at Buddha Bar includes Japanese sashimi,
Vietnamese spring rolls, lacquered duck, and sautéed
shrimp with black bean sauce, grilled chicken skewers with
orange sauce, sweet-and-sour spareribs, and crackling squab
à l'orange. The ambience along with the food and drinks
have been so well accepted by customers that Buddha Bar has
opened outlets in Beirut, Dubai, Amman, New York City and
Lisbon.Another
major theme restaurant of the West is Pasha, located in London.
The restaurant offers visitors a Moroccan ambience along with
serving authentic Moroccan cuisine. The Moroccan ambience
has been created through rich handmade fabrics, intricately
curved tables, lamps, rose petals and the sweet smell of incense.
Pasha offers different types of wraps, grills, fotour in its
menu, along with authentic Moroccan tea as well as a range
of desserts and ice cream and sorbets. It also offers an interesting
choice of wines.
Momo
is a bar cum restaurant in London whose theme, "is inspired
by the Arabian culture of shisha smoking, tea drinking and
exotic flavors". The menu as well as the cocktails are
Morocco-based; with dishes like Pigeon Pastilla, Moroccan
style Fish n Chips, Cous Cous, and cocktails like Pommery
Apenage, champagne-based Marrakech O Marrakech. Hakkasan is
another theme restaurant in London, which carries the Chinese
essence. It's interiors comprise modern aesthetic and traditional
Chinese motifs. Apart from that, the lighting in the restaurant
adds more dynamism to the place. The menu mainly includes
sea food like steamed crab in Shao Hsing wine, soft-shell
crab with hot and sour sauce, stir-fried lobster tail in XO
sauce, roast duck with mango and lemon sauce, stir-fried jellyfish,
squid and Chinese chives, pan-fried rib-eye beef with sweet
soya and almond, roast pork with red rice, ginger and Shao
Hsing, stir-fried asparagus with lotus roots and lily bulb
with black pepper. |
