Restaurant Review - Mahesh Lunch Home, Residency Road

The desire to feast on some pearls of the ocean landed us at Mahesh Lunch Home for a Sunday lunch. 
Though they have a large seating area we booked in advance to make sure we got a table.

Upon entering we were greeted by some live crabs snapping away on one side and some fishes on display too.

The seating is spread across 2 floors, and we were seated upstairs in the are with a low roofing. Decore is simple but interesting including starfish like projections on the ceiling.

They do serve alcohol as well as mocktails. We started by calling for some fresh lime soda, iced tea and another drink which was based on kokum, coconut milk and spices. Unfortunately the drink had a very intense taste of garlic which overpowered everything else, and we couldn't have any of it.

To the credit of the service staff, the captain came up to our table and asked if we didn't like the drink. And without a question the drink was picked up and not charged to us. That's great service i'd say, considering many restaurant staff have the audacity to tell clients this is how the stuff is supposed to taste and nothing can be done about it.

Infact throughout our meal, the service was good and quick. Staff was courteous and indeed very helpful in making the right selection from their very vast menu.

What I loved about the menu is the classifications like pomphret, crab, basa and rawas, sea specialities, chicken etc each of which have a couple of pages dedicated to them including starters, specialities and main course dishes.

We ordered 3 starters, namely the prawns butter pepper garlic, basa fish roasted and a pomphret tawa fry. The promphret was brought to our table to show the size and the price before it was cooked.

The prawns were dry and cooked with lots of garlic. The cooking was perfect and prawns had a nice crunch and freshness to them.

The pomphret tawa fry was good, lovely paste of spices on top and quite pungent. The basa fish roasted also had a good spice covering on it, and not just chillis, a good masala mixture.

After our happy starters and drinks we called for our main course.

Of course almost all the dishes use coconut in some form here. And we tried the basa Malabar curry and basa mallipuram. The reason we chose more of basa fish is because of our averseness and incompetencein eating fishes with thorns as we are not major fish eaters.

The basa fish curry was so-so as the thin and mild gravy was not much to our liking, but the mallipuram preparation was a winner all the way. The semi gravy dish had a brilliant masala on very soft fish. The masala was very flavourful and had a nice coarse texture to it. A deadly combination with the appams and rice.

They do have choice of rice, and I think the boiled rice will be a better accompaniment than the white or basmati rice.

Neer dosa should also be a good alternative.

The overall bill including an expensive and large pomphret came upto 4000 for 4 of us which was not bad at all considering the amount we ate.

They also have better options and offers on weekdays and that makes it a more cost effective option. It’s a good place for seafood in Bangalore.

Rating - 4/5