Ice-Spice Bistro

Boredom can make people do really crazy things. The Hoggers, the protagonists of these escapades usually tackle such a situation with good food, booze & light conversation, as it was imbibed into their impressionable minds from college-life vagaries.

So, it was quite a surprise, when Fickle Fin & Sloppy Sam, came up with a brilliant idea (at least it felt like so, at that moment) to visit a science museum. Surprisingly they reached the ‘venue’ & unsurprisingly late. It was well past 3 in the afternoon & any self-respecting foodie would know that most of the good restaurants would be closed for the afternoon.

So after enduring some irksome descriptions on the exhibits by the lone engineer - Beer Bob, they decided that a light snack would appease their rumbling stomachs, so went to the canteen in the museum run by Kadamba. It’s not their usual fare & of course, the food was predictably disgusting but the view was something to write about. It was great; the UB buildings, gave it at least a skyline to talk about.

Enough of that; the bad food made The Hoggers to search for a better haunt. The result was Ice-Spice on St. Marks Road. The Hoggers shuffled in, devoured in the menu & ordered some burgers. It was the ‘Tons of Fun Lamb Burgers’ for Beer Bob & Brewmaster Bryan they were always of the carnivorous kinds. The Duplicate Veggie Panner Pat had Veg Burger with cheese & fried egg (now you know why he’s a duplicate). Sloppy Sam wanted the entire menu but settled for the ‘Crispy Chicken Burger’. Fickle Fin jumped from a Cold Coffee (without ice-cream or whipped cream), to a hot Coffee, and then soon skipped that for a ‘Raspberry Fizz’. Anyways, he ended up getting an orange coloured fizz that reminded him of his days as a craver of Rasna. The waiter even tried convincing that it was indeed a Raspberry, in vain. The Pseudo-Sophisticated was tied up with ‘appointments’ (yeah right!). The Hoggers called him up anyway; he contemplated the issue for half an hour & came to the conclusion that an auto-ride would be too demeaning to his stature. Unfizzled by the turndown, The Hoggers stuck to their mission.

The food was good. The lamb patties which were tender & juicy deserve special mention. The veggie burger with fried egg was a weird but must try combination. The crispy chicken burger was quite different from the usual Mc Donaldish Burgers. The filling was not a patty but a crisp boneless chicken piece. As usual Sloppy Sam was in a hurry to devour the burger & scooped out the stuffing and made a mess. The burgers were big, tasty & easy on the wallet, what more can foodies ask from a dish?

Then came the deserts, the chocolate tarts were heavenly but the Ferrero-Rocher Cake was terrible. It seemed they just dipped it a pool of mud mistaking it for chocolate syrup.

Venue - Ice-Spice Bistro, St Marks Road, Bangalore

Recommended - Tons of Fun Burger, Chocolate Tarts

Music - Radio

Variety - ****

Quality - ****

Value for money - ****

Ambience - **

Service - *(the guy messed up the Fin’s drink)