Restaurant Review: Sky Bar & Grill at FoodLink, ICC Towers
Senapati Bapat Road in Pune finally gets new well deserved stop for food enthusiasts. Atop the ICC Towers, the FoodLink Court has opened. With a lounge, an open air Italian restaurant and Indian fine dining, the place does definitely make you want to come again and try all the places.
What amazed us was how the designs were done. If one looks at the horribly maintained the Level 9 café on Wing A, one would surely want to give a pat on the architect’s back. Lovely work on metamorphosing the venue.
But I think that’s where we should stop applauding the place. We opted for Sky Bar & Grill (the open air restaurant) for dinner. The service, the food, the table setup- they all have a lot of scope of improvement.
After a 15 minute wait we’re assigned a table for three, the same size as a table for two. Being dark, the pseudo candles aka kerosene lamps dressed up as candles were not lit up even after us asking the waiter to do so thrice. The table was not set when we sat. The least they could do was to have the napkins, glasses and the spoons, forks and knives in place.
They handed us a drinks menu from which many were not available due to certain circumstances and that made my mind divert to the empty wine rack as a showcase at the entry of the restaurant. With an oversized food menu (which one can very much toss over and hurt someone due to its wooden holder), we once again had to ask for a flashlight so that we could see what we were to order.
We ticked off a thin crust pizza, a seafood soup and classic lasagna. For some reason people always attack the pizzas with forks and knives, especially when in a high end restaurant. I prefer my pizza by the palm. The soup was served in an over-sized bowl and hence we lost out on space with the bread basket and pizza too on the table along with our plates.
After the horrid so-called-lasagna at Sweet Chariot, the lasagna was a definite welcome. But they could have served it a wee more warm so that I could have not only gobbled it but also relished it.
Sky Bar & Grill has good food but not worth the price at their current state of affairs, which they can obviously improve. FoodLink needs more clientele. For a Friday night, it was empty. And they need more constructive feedback.
Sahil Khan
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