Peshwa, located on ITI Road, Aundh, offers you an exceptional Maharashtrian Food. The main focus is on delicacies from Konkan and Western Maharashtra but they also have some specialties from Vidharbh region.
FoodProwl team was invited here for a food tasting. And I must say this was one of the most well executed tasting events we have experienced so far.
Recommended Dishes: Mini mutter Karanji, Prawns Chatpata, Malvani Surmai Curry, Varhadi Shev bhaji, Bharli waangi, Bhajani che wade, Amboli, Chikki Ice cream
Food:
Sol kadhi: A traditional drink from Konkan region which actually is a digestif but nowadays is being served as a welcome drink at most of the places. This one had a nice color, a slightly sweetish taste. A refreshing drink.
Kothimbir Wadi: Few places get this right. Peshwa is one of them. Square shaped wadi tawa fried. It was crispy and tasty. Wasn’t oily at all.
Mini mutter Karanji: I am not really a fan of mutter karanji. But this one was spot on. A tit-bit sized karanji having delicious mutter filling properly cooked and right thickness of outer layer. A deep-fried preparation which had a pleasant golden color, garnished with grated coconut. Simply delicious. I absolutely loved this.
Prawns Chatpata: Big size prawns tossed with spicy onion masala. Slightly tangy in flavor. The masala itself was very tasty.
Chicken Malvani Tikka: Boneless chicken pieces marinated in coriander, curry leaves, green chili masala and cooked in tandoor. Chicken was tender and juicy. Taste was fine.
Next up was main course.
Chicken Saoji: A speciality of Nagpur region. Chicken gravy in black, saoji masala. Taste of gravy was fine. But it did not have the saoji spice level. It could have been much much spicier.
Malvani Surmai Curry: Another delicious preparation. Traditional malvani caurry which had coconut base and sour flaour of kokum. Surmai was fresh and well cooked. This curry went very well Amboli and steamed rice.
Varhadi Shev bhaji: Bang on preparation. A thick gravy of onion and tomatoes spiced with ginger, garlic and red chili powder mixed with some nagpuri shev. They also serve some shev on the side so that you can add it as per your taste and mainly to retain the crispiness of the shev while eating.
Bharli Wangi: Eggplants stuffed with spices and cooked in a coconut and crushed peanut gravy with little jaggery added to it. Jwari Bhakri went very well with it.
Masale Bhaat: A traditional rice from Maharashtra with vegetables and spices and garnished with grated coconut. Here they use short grain rice in the preparation. Mumbai, Pune people might find it little bit off the books. But taste wise this rice was good.
Chapati, Bhakari, Amboli, Bhajaniche Wade: Different type of breads were given to go with different gravies. Wade went well with Chicken while amboli went well with Malvani curry. I especially loved bhajaniche wade which were not at all oily and were perfectly crispy. They tasted delicious even on their own.
We had 2 desserts.
Kharvas: Kind of a milk pudding with flavor of cardamom. Unlike most of the places here they use jaggery as a sweetner in kharvas. It was nice and soft and had just the right sweetness.
Chikki Ice cream: Many places have started serving chikki ice-cream. But the one that I tasted here was by far the best. Vanilla ice cream mingles with ground nut chikki which give this dessert a fine crunch and perfect sweetness. This is not to be missed for whatever reason.
Service: As I mentioned earlier, this was by far the best executed food tasting I have attended. Staff was friendly and efficient. We were served course after course and never even once there was a service goof-up. We neither were served many preparations together in our plate nor did we have to wait for the next dish to be served after finishing the previous one. Waiting staff was also recommending which bread would go with which gravy and insisting to have a second serving of the preparations we loved. Breads were served hot every time.
Ambience: Nice comfortable chairs. Spotless cutlery and crockery. Moderately lit dining area. Picture frames and articles that resonate with Maharashtrian theme. Soft instrumental music. All in all a good fine-dine ambience.
Value for Money: Yes
Rating: 4/5
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