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Zaica restaurant review

This is a review about the restaurant called Zaica on Brookefield Road which goes towards EPIP.  This is a place which is right above the Nilgiris grocery store.

The restaurant ambience is good.  You are greeted warmly by a lady upon your arrival.  The seating space is good and the place is clean.  When it is hot outside, please do not sit near the glass window.  For some reason, the circulation of A/C is horrible there.

I have only gone there only for lunch so, we had buffet.  The buffet is quite simple and doesn't contain too many items.  They have couple of soups (veg and non-veg), 2 starters (each for veg and no-veg), some raita/salad. The starters are generally ok.  Their sweet corn soup was quite good (different soup everyday) and this is from a perdson who does not like corn at all.

For lunch, they had different varieties of paneer tikka (awadhi, achari, white etc) each occasion I went there plus another appetizer.  They have generally 2 entrees.  I have been there a few times and have like their mixed vegetable sabzi everytime.  They serve either naan or roti at your table.

For desserts they typically have jalebi, phirni, sometimes boondi ladoo (I loved them) etc.

Their lunch buffeet is Rs. 250 unless they have jacked up the prices. Overall I would recommend this restaurant to anyone.  It gets quite full on weekdays so, reserve a table in advance, if possible.

Their menu is limited but the taste is good so, people who don't want to have too much variety to pick from, can go to this restaurant.

Rating: ****

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