OUR DINING EXPERIENCE: THE KONKAN, BENGALURU

 OUR DINING EXPERIENCE: THE KONKAN, BENGALURU

My husband and I love seafood so when we were celebrating our wedding anniversary recently, we decided to go to a seafood specialty restaurant. After viewing various options we decided to drop in for lunch at The Konkan, established 2017. This is located at the junction of Church Street and St Marks Road in Bengaluru. We had been here before and had loved the food- hence the decision to repeat the experience.

Their website is here  and they also have a Facebook Page 

There were many fish options to choose from. For starters, we ordered the old favourite seer fish preferring to have this tawa fried. It looked really attractive but though it was tasty it does not get a rave rating as it fell a little short on the salt.. 

This was followed by the hit of the day: Prawns Butter Garlic. This was incredibly tasty! I would strongly recommend this to all of you, especially if, like us,  you love eating prawns! The prawns were expertly sautéed in butter with the right amount of garlic flavouring giving the dish a taste that you will remember for very long. 

To go with our meal we opted for Somaek. This is made up of Soju, Korea's iconic and most consumed liquor topped up with beer. We didn't have the soju in the regular Korean style by downing it as a shot. We had this as a Somaeak - soju + maekju (as beer is called in Korea). I am not sure if they had Korean beer but we had ours -with the ever popular Heineken!  

For the main course we opted for a chicken dish, considering we had already relished fish and prawns. Being from Mangaluru, our eyes lit up on seeing the Chicken Kori Rotti on the menu. This dish (which is most popular in Tulu/Bunt cuisine in Mangaluru)  has chicken curry eaten with crisp dry wafers or flakes made with boiled rice. We crush the wafers in the chicken gravy , mix and eat it with our fingers. This too was superb! 

After this delicious meal, we chose to have Caramel Custard for dessert. This came with the right amount of sweetness and was presented nicely with a garnish of assorted nuts. It tasted just great and was a perfect end to our meal. 

We went on a Friday afternoon around 1.30 and we got a place quite easily. The timings are 12 noon to 3.15 pm and from 7.00 pm to 10.15 pm. They are closed on Mondays.

They have a fairly large numbers of options to choose from -mainly centred around seafood for which the Konkan area is so highly reputed. The service was efficient . We liked the fact that they didn't hassle us with too many suggestions or bug us to speed up. The ambience is fine- nothing great but the food is indeed excellent!