accha: i agree; if you're going to plug a new upscale restaurant and give it a glowing review, you should at least include a link to a menu with prices; in any case and even though allah has blessed me with enough to enjoy as many nice meals as i want, i prefer to steer clear of all these over the top restaurants; It's not about money or being cheap; It's about not wanting to pay for the restaurant's unnecessarily flashy choice of decor, fittings and location; i am willing to bet that even the paani poori or samosa chaat at this place (and others like it) is something like 20-30 rials if not more; we all know paani poori is a cheap as chips street food in India, everyone and their dog eats it freely and you would explode if you ate the amount of paani poori you would get for that price in India; this is what i have a problem with; ridiculous prices in order to recover costs; I'm not paying 30 rials for paani poori even if i was a multimillionaire; because i don't like being ripped off; I've grown up and lived in every gulf country, tried all these new flashy places and even today, the old is better than the new; old places like lebanese shawarma and marmara istanbul still have better shawarma than any 100 rial fancy showy 5 star shawarma and turkey central and other old superstars still are the oldest and best places to gorge on grilled meat; the flashy and new money crowd are welcome to go hand over their cash and humour these new needlessly posh places; I've spent my life here and like the rest of the old money crowd, would rather go to a 40 year old place where i would actually get a world class drool worthy meal at its fair price...rant over...i love food and can talk all day about it and can type some more if that want enough haha :-)
accha: i agree; if you're going to plug a new upscale restaurant and give it a glowing review, you should at least include a link to a menu with prices; in any case and even though allah has blessed me with enough to enjoy as many nice meals as i want, i prefer to steer clear of all these over the top restaurants; It's not about money or being cheap; It's about not wanting to pay for the restaurant's unnecessarily flashy choice of decor, fittings and location; i am willing to bet that even the paani poori or samosa chaat at this place (and others like it) is something like 20-30 rials if not more; we all know paani poori is a cheap as chips street food in India, everyone and their dog eats it freely and you would explode if you ate the amount of paani poori you would get for that price in India; this is what i have a problem with; ridiculous prices in order to recover costs; I'm not paying 30 rials for paani poori even if i was a multimillionaire; because i don't like being ripped off; I've grown up and lived in every gulf country, tried all these new flashy places and even today, the old is better than the new; old places like lebanese shawarma and marmara istanbul still have better shawarma than any 100 rial fancy showy 5 star shawarma and turkey central and other old superstars still are the oldest and best places to gorge on grilled meat; the flashy and new money crowd are welcome to go hand over their cash and humour these new needlessly posh places; I've spent my life here and like the rest of the old money crowd, would rather go to a 40 year old place where i would actually get a world class drool worthy meal at its fair price...rant over...i love food and can talk all day about it and can type some more if that want enough haha :-)