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Afters - dessert parlour

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This is a dessert place in Al Seef where I was invited to try out their offerings. Among the savory options, they have sandwiches. We had a turkey and cheese toastie . Grilling it makes the cheese melt and it gives a nice flavour. The other one was the waffle sandwich . This one also had cheese inside it, but the waffle was thick and I could taste mostly just that. It also tasted a bit dry. They gave some ketchup along with it, which greatly improved the flavour, but I personally feel that if I need to add sauces to make the flavour better, then the dish by itself isn't all that great. We saw a tempting dessert called the brownie point in the menu. It is served in a tall glass and contains fudge brownie, chocolate and vanilla ice-cream, hod fudge sauce, fresh banana, whipped cream, chocolate honey comb pieces, Florentine wafers and cigar wafer. That's a lot and you can imagine how loaded it gets. This tasted pretty good, but again, not something irresistible for ...

Kulfiholic - The Mumbai Social

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Kulfiholic, The Mumbai Social. These are actually two restaurants in one. It was a mystery to me as to why would they name it Kulfiholic when they serve so much more. That's when I came to know that the Kulfiholic is the kulfi part of it and "The Mumbai Social" is a concept which serves Mumbai street food.  As soon as you enter (or even from the outside actually), you'll see that they've given a very Mumbai-street-like feel to it. They've also incorporated the ambience of a local train.  The walls are filled with very well known sayings / quotations that every Mumbaite can relate to.  For the month of Ramadan, they have an Iftar set menu for just AED 41. This one includes one starter, one main course, one fresh lime soda, and one kulfi.  We were two bloggers and were invited to try out the dishes here. Most of the items that we had were from the Iftar menu, but there were a couple of them which weren't in the menu too.  We started with th...