runab took me out to lunch at Not Just Jazz By the Bay. The Times Food Guide Pune 2007 (p176) gives it a 3.5 on service and lists it as “Pick of the Guide: Night Life under Best Bars”. Honest truth. They should stick to nightlife. The lunch buffet (in spite of what the Times Guide says) sucks big time in variety – if you have unlimited salads then at least you need to have a variety in salads – it was not there. The music is much too loud to make it a cosy comfortable place to chat, unless your version of chat involves bending forward and hollering over the music. The decor is fairly tolerable if only they could have made the temperature a little bearable. We tried mocktails – which were good. The Dijon Chicken I had could have done with a more stronger hint of mustard (heh, when it’s mustard you don’t really want to be subtle). runab had a nice dish. The service is goofy though. They insist on pushing you to the buffet going to the extent of making it clear that it will take 30+ minutes for your lunch order to turn up. The most annoying thing was that ensuring that the table had glasses of drinking water took them till the end of the meal to figure out.
All in all, 2.0 on service, 2.5 on decor, 1.5 on music and 3.5 on food.
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