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Real Rockstar Food

Taking care of the beautiful people’s taste buds and balancing it with their health and fitness needs is the brilliant Chef Roger Eggleston. He believes in appreciating what the Earth gives us, to never stop learning and using the braising technique, of searing and then cooking in a liquid. The trick is to keep the temperature “low and slow” he points out. To intensify the flavor, he uses vegetable stock but adds apple to it. He shares his recipe…

I welcome this open through the day, cheery, small, well-priced pizzeria. It is clearly driven by the mission of feeding you well, as opposed to giving you food for thought or gourmet fare. Of playing to your tummy instead of your imagination. And with it’s comforting pizzas and pasta it executes that mission more dependably than many other pizzerias with similarly modest but noble ambitions. Mama Mia (please note my Indian accent when I say that)!
The factor that sets HRC buffet apart from others is that this is not a regular feature for the cafe, and has been conceptualised to be a speciality for days that have international sporting events, the telecast time of which coincides with the local breakfast time.
The inclusion of ‘parathas’ as the only Indian option seems more like an attempt to fit into the ‘breakfast for all’ bracket, particularly for the Indian crowd, when the chef claims to have hand-picked an otherwise continental array of choices. Chef Brijesh tells us that the menu, which mostly comprises continental items, was designed keeping in mind the kind of crowd HRC generally attracts based on its brand value.