When you get up from the dinner table at the end of a very satisfying meal at Chapter 25, a restaurant that opened recently at MGF Metropolitan Mall, Saket, you wonder for how long will it last. The same thought crosses your mind even as you enter the place—a large format restaurant, pillared and plastered with wood. Even though it’s an inviting space, promising and delivering good service, groovesome music and great food, the location could, in our opinion, prove to be a setback in guaranteeing the desired footfall.
Hoping we’re wrong, we set foot inside Chapter 25, perhaps one of the few restaurants to have opened in the last few months that actually keep up their food and service standards very high. It is these two things alone that can attract visitors—mostly pub hoppers—as the entrees are a far cry from your typical main course spreads. ‘‘Food is the fundamental motivation to dine out, and at Chapter 25, everyone is aware to this verity,” says owner Bharat Datt, adding, “The menu comes complete with peanut masala, crispy potato skin, mezze, Corn Jalapeno Triangles, Cigar Rolls, Little Lamb Tart, Mushroom Mélange, Fish and Chips, Patlician Kebab, Ras el Hanout and more.”
Almost anything you pick is likely to be well prepared and presented. Our personal recommendations, however, would be Iskender Kebab (thinly cut grilled chicken layed over crisp pita, with a dollop of Greek yogurt), Greek Garlic Chicken (Greek chicken legs blend with Greek spices, served with a garlic dip), Malabar Fish Tikka (coconut and South Indian spiced marinated fish tikka), Chicken Tagine (carrot, saffron with zucchini, okra and other vegetables with chicken) and Flourless Fudge Cake. “We’re not doing anything out of the ordinary. Just doing the routine really well. That’s, what we figured people are looking for, and I take pride in saying that their search ends at our doorstep,” he says.