Food Review - Cafe Noir, Orion Mall

Food Review – Café Noir, Orion Mall

The French love their food, and their cuisine is rich in flavours with cheese, cream, fresh vegetables and meat forming important components. To perfect the taste is difficult, yet café noir comes close.

They have 3 branches in Bangalore, and we paid a visit to the one at Orion Mall, Malleshwaram. However from past experience I can tell you, the consistency is great across outlets.

The decor is simplistic and neat, tables are small with tight seating, and they have large counters for desserts and kitchenette for the staff. The menu has touches of Italian and French cuisine, and being in a group, we sampled much of their food.

Drinks -

They have fresh fruit juices, where were indeed fresh and devoid of excess sugar or ice. We tried Watermelon and Orange, they also have pineapple and apple apart from these. Café FrappeFroz is the cold coffee with ice cream blend, it was thick but a little too sweet. Hot coffee and tea are also available apart from a range of mocktails they have on offer. They serve wine and wine based cocktails too. Another french specialty 

Food - 

We began with the homemade chicken nuggets which were cooked perfectly and had a nice tangy tartar sauce to go along with it. The Classic Bruschetta was just about ok, nothing to delve upon.

Classic Bruschetta

We then had the quiche farmer which was among the best you can find in India. The pastry was light and not too thick, it broke easily and small chunks of chicken and mushroom covered in a cream - cheese mixture revealed themselves. Served with a small portion of salad, the quantity was less, but quality was supreme. The fish and chips were different from the usual, the shape and size of the fish slices was smaller and also it was extremely tender. How much one likes it will depend on their perception of fish and chips, but I can say it was well prepared.

The Quiche Farmer

We also tried the ratatouille, a French specialty, a small portion of rice with the rich tomato gravy. It would suit the Indian palate of most people who are vary of French cuisine.

The lemon chicken with rice turned out to be a drastic disappointment and we were unable to have much of it. Avoid this dish.

Ratatouille 

Lemon Chicken with rice

St Lazare

We also tried one of their sandwich – St Lazare, it had roasted chicken with veggies and served with fries and a small portion of salad. They do offer a choice of breads, which we didn’t check and wasn’t told to us. The bread we got was a bit hard for our liking.

The suckers for desserts that we are, we tried a few even after being stuffed. The chocolate mousse was good, but the strawberry tart had an extremely hard base. I really had to use a knife to cut it, and still it proved quite tough. Nothing to remember among the desserts, though usually they are. Maybe we didn’t choose the right items. The other strawberry pastry we had was the best, but I don’t recall the name exactly Frasier something... They have lots of desserts options including macaroons which should be tried.

                                    Strawberry Tart

Service is quick and despite 

being a small place they have good number of service staff. It’s expensive by café standards, and rates are more like a fine dine restaurant, but then so is the quality mostly. Good for a visit if you like French cuisine or if you happen to be in the mall.

Rating -4/5