The Chocolate Room

Critic´s Review

• Food: 3 / 5
• Service: 2.5 / 5
• Decor: 3 / 5

-By Swati Sucharita

Obviously, 'the' place for fans of the cocoa bean, with chocolate celebrated in its various interpretations, dark or white, hot, cold, shaken and stirred. Even as soup and pizza! If you like your chocolate hot, go for Classic or even Dark Chocolate, absolutely soul-filling! In the cold Choco shakes, Tiramisu, with its undertones of coffee, and mascarpone is a good option, so is the Hazelnut one. There are of course the usual Kit Kat, Bounty and Oreo Cookie shakes for those who love their brand names! There are also hot and cold coffees and teas, chillers, coolers etc obviously not at par in the popularity stakes with the cocoa bean. Mercifully, after ODing on chocolate, you can read the short eats menu, with paninos, wraps, baguettes, waffles crepes and pancakes. Try the creamy paneer and capsicum crepe, crunchy and delicious, so is the Triple C Panino with its generous cheese filling. But if you start missing chocolate, try the Waffle Wonder, a warm Belgian waffle served with melted chocolate and vanilla ice cream, and if you like your chocolate a la pastry mode, the Choco Chip cake is good in a dark and sinful way. However, the Choco Chilli Sandwich, we thought was a pure gimmick, The Chocolate Fondue, is its USP, with innovative dips such as seasonal fruits, besides the marshmallows, butter cookies and wafer twists. A pricey place, and ambience differs from one outlet to another. The Banjara Hills, outlet last visited, for example, was that of an informal home in rambling disarray.