Hard Rock Cafe Mumbai
Some office colleagues and I had visited Hard Rock Cafe’s Mumbai franchise yesterday. I enjoyed the ambience, very lively and quite full of buzz by 9-9.30 PM… The place was quite large and open with the right kind of lighting as well. Not too bright and neither was it too dim. Walls decorated with the usual HRC artefacts – guitars, dresses, drumkits and so forth…
My colleagues were drinking some colorful stuff in shades of red, blue, silver/grey and what not… I stuck to good old Glen Morangie.
The food was quite good, I personally liked the vegetarian mezzo platter and the santa fe (?) spring rolls… I was told that the chicken tenders were quite tasty as well… They also have a good selection of salads that I was pecking from…
Sound quality – very good given the high ceilings and the way speakers were mounted but too loud compared to the other HRCs I’ve partied at… At times, it was difficult to hear ourselves…
The DJ, some chappie originally christened David Masilamani, who goes by the nom-de-guere of Black Jack was spinning the wheels… Quite snooty though, I could almost see his brains through his nostrils each time I went to his counter… Notwithstanding, I will say he played very very good music…
BJ the DJ was also conducting a music quiz and guess what, prizes were a booklet of poems written by him, a CD of music compiled/sung by him and some other sundry trinkets that I would not even give away as second hand gifts… We participated and won these prizes in the first 5-6 times and then decided not to, once we realised the prizes were not worth taxing our by-then drunken intellects for…
Very courteous and friendly staff always at your elbow and ready to be of assistance.
Overall rating: 7/10
I’d probably visit again, if I feel like driving halfway downtown Mumbai looking for nightspots!!!