SMOKIES - NIBM road

Along with fine dining restaurants, leisure dining is also gearing up in the gourmet circuit. On one side you can enjoy the swanky cutlery, crystal clear glassware, uniformed service and culinary art on the plate. While on other side, where you need to unwind yourself from the stressful day in a style and vibrant atmosphere, this is the place you can head. Being a brew house itself is an added advantage as you have surprise tap beers introduced every week. This day it was the Belgium wheat beer which was being tapped. There are other variants too such as lager, wheat, and cider. I surely missed out on the dark roasted malt one which they had some time back. Coming to the idea of the place, you would be welcomed by a huge blown-out balloon shaped icon of theirs, which is a rocky mountain brown bear. As the name suggests it has barbecued preparations on the list along with some oriental stuff, and a bit of continental and Indian array. In-spite of being a brew house, oriental and Indian food remains to charm the customers here. So, that’s why the menu is influenced more to suit the Indian palate. Among the starters that we had, the Masala Cheese Spinach on a till Naan Pizza was definitely an innovation. The base is actual naan that you get, but the twist is that it is rolled out raw, topped with flavoured spinach and cheese and then baked as a pizza! The best part — even if you’re glued to the on going match on the large screens and this starter happens to cool down, you can savour this in bite-sized cut portions, as it doesn’t get chewy unlike a regular pizza. But it was not same with Mozzarella Sticks and Prawns Tossed in Red Dry Chillies as the latter happened to be chewy and the former not being so stringy and completely melted. In the mains, the Spaghetti with Meatballs happened to score another goal for, a completely balanced pasta sauce and tender meatballs. Having opened just a week back, some preparations are not available yet. I wanted to try the Kakori Kebab! But definitely the ambience, the atmosphere, freshly tapped beer, smoking hot barbecue food, whoa! It needs only a superb match to compliment such an arrangement! If you’re planning to come over here, make prior reservations otherwise, you can also have the liberty to stand and cheer all the way till the end of the match. That would also be a worth visiting! Smokies Brewhouse The Corinthians Boutique

Hotel Nyati County ,

NIBM Annexe, Pune-411060