FAMISHED EXPLORER

Shake Shack has interesting stuff, and they invited me to try their delicious food. I was pleasantly surprised to see this outlet. It was pretty big and spacious for a mall. It also has a little play area with a foosball table. There's an entrance from the front side of the mall too, and you don't have to go through the main entrance all around.  We started with the cheese fries . These were crinkle cut and topped with melted cheese; these tasted good. One of their speciality burgers is the Shack Stack . This is a cheeseburger and crisp-fried portobello mushroom filled with melted cheese, lettuce, tomato, shack sauce. The beef patty along with this combination tastes really good. The portobello mushroom has a prominent flavour and it's a treat for mushroom lovers.  View this post on Instagram A post shared by Famished Explorer [ UDIT ] (@uditss) on Nov 23, 2019 at 7:18am PST They have a couple of options in chicken and we tried th...

The name Dabang itself is really catchy and filmy, and their food also is really Dabang! It is an outlet located in the food court of Marina mall, and I didn't have much expectations from this, but I gave it a shot when they invited me to try out their newly launched menu and it certainly surpassed my expectations.  They've recently got chef Sohan Bhandari who was heading a very well known chain of an Indian restaurant in the city. They've also revamped their menu to include some really interesting items. We started with the samosa chana chaat . It was made pretty well; not too soggy, but just the right amount of ingredients, and it tasted great. Then they got us some onion bhajiya and said these are the chef's special. I wondered as to how different could onion bhajiyas get. Oh boy I was wrong. These were perhaps the best onion bhajiyas I've had. They were really crispy and were sprinkled with the chef's special masala on it. I had never though...

I was recently invited by S hotel in Al Barsha to try out their newly launched dinner buffet. The recently started buffet is available on Thursdays, and the timings are from 7:30pm to 11pm and it is priced at AED 79. The buffet consists of a wide variety of Arabic dishes. A nice selection of cold starters like hummus, fattoush, moutabel, zaatar labneh balls, and lots more.  The hot starters were quite good. I especially liked the fattet hummus which had a nice flavour to it. The cheese sambosek were average though.  The cajun spiced roasted potato was nice and chunky.  For fish lovers, there's clob fried fish too which was pretty good.  A traditional famous Arabic appetiser is the kibbeh, although the one here was just average.  They had a nice selection of beverages too.  For the mains, I started with the lamb lubia saloma. It was my first time having this, and I had it along with rice. It has a very mild flavour to it, and wasn't ...

This is an interesting casual diner located at the North end of La Mer that serves Uzbek / Russian food and cuisines from around the place. They invited me to try out their food.  It was a bit dimly lit is what I noticed as soon as I entered. They have a nice see-through kitchen where you can see the chefs preparing delicious meals in front of you.  We started with their salads. First we had the aubergine salad . The texture of this was very different from what I'd expect from an aubergine. It wasn't squishy, but sort of firm and looked like  a well cooked cube. There was some feta cheese in it too, and I really liked this one.  The other one was the bahor salad . This was basically made from cucumber julienne in a yoghurt preparation. It tasted fresh but the taste wasn't something unique I'd say. The potato and mushroom vareniki is something that I really liked a lot. It had a lovely texture and was a bit juicy too; something similar to a dumpling....

This is a pure vegetarian restaurant combined with Little Italy (they share the same seating area and you get two different menus).  The decor is a bit of an old style feel to it, yet nicely done.  Have a look at the menu and there are way too many interesting items and we wanted to order them all. Being a fan of pani puri, I had the pani puri caprioska . This is a mocktail made with the spicy water from the pani puri and on top there's a piece of pani puri (for the aesthetics). It was spicy, with a hint of sweet; the flavours were really strong and I really enjoyed it.  Another street food that I'm a huge fan of is the pav bhaji, so we had to check out the pav bhaji bombs . This is very similar to regular pav bhaji, but the bhaji is put inside the pav, and the pav is a bit smaller than usual, so you can have it in a bite or two. It tasted good enough, but I was expecting a bit better.  We then moved on to their desi version of the pizza - the Naanz...