I liked Pride Hotel a lot the first time we went there for a wedding reception. The food was of course catered by the hotel and it was really nice. Good choices by the bride and groom, but all really well done. I had seen that they had a restaurant called Cafe Treat on the ground floor which went on our list. Cafe Treat was a buffet place largely. Then I read somewhere that they had an a la carte restaurant which did some a decent review or two. And that's how we ended up there one Saturday afternoon.

The restaurant is on the first floor and occupies quite a large space. A section of it overlooks the lobby. The place was empty and that's always makes one's eyebrow go up a bit. But anyways, we settled down and were handed the menus. They are not really well thought of. They are designed to look like photo albums of yore. The narrow slits on either side for the leaflet. While these are good for sturdier photos, they are useless for thinner leaflets like this menu was. And the thing literally came off in our hands. We requested for one we could manage easier and were given the same menu in a while, with the leaflets fixed back in - only in a completely jumbled manner. Desserts in the beginning, starters at the end and the like. 

Anyways, we put that behind us and ordered - a beer for Sudhakar and a Mojito for me. Nothing can go wrong with bottled beer. The Mojito looked fine for starters and then I realized there were undissolved sugar crystals and was a touch more potent than is good for a weekend afternoon lunch .... hmmm. 

The sizzler too had the right amount of sizzle and was perfectly portioned for one person. There were potato wedges and boiled veggies on the side. I personally felt though that the onion rings on top were meant for some other dish in the kitchen by ended up on the sizzler. I love tomato based pastas, but this was a complete tomato harvest on one plate. The pasta was thin and almost vermicelli like and after a while, I just got bored with it and parceled for my work day lunch.