From the outside Mangrove looks like a small cafe with a wooden door to enter. When you enter, it seems like a small cozy place with all the desserts on the left of you. Then you realise it is really big because they have tables on the first floor as well.
Mangrove serves alcohol, but only Fosters beer and wine. There's this big stairway leading up to the first floor. We decided to sit on the first floor. Along with a few tables, the bar was also on the first floor. The ambience in Mangrove is good and so is the music.
We were recommended the beef stir fry as it was one of the specials of the day. Along with that we ordered chicken nachos and cheese garlic bread and a pitcher of Foster's.
The beef stir fry was small pieces of beef stir fried along with crunchy vegetables and tossed in this amazingly tasting soya sauce. It was a treat to our taste buds. The beef was fried just to right amount to be crunchy and soft enough to chew. We all loved the beef stir fry and decided to order another portion of it! I would highly recommend it.
The chicken nachos were good. I wouldn't say the best but they were good. Nacho chips topped with baked beans, olives, jalapeños and some veggies with smoked chicken and hung curd accompanied with salsa sauce. I wouldn't say these were the best nachos that I've had, but they were pretty damn good. The nachos were fried. A little bit of a disappointment to me because I assumed they would be baked. The sauce that was added to the beans was very tasty. The highlight of the nachos was the smoked chicken that was just amazing.
The garlic bread was nice and cheesy and the sauce given with it was great. The were 4 big pieces of garlic bread in one portion.
For main course, we ordered Alfredo Chicken Pasta with Penne and the Jerk Chicken Sizzler. Until this point the service at Mangrove was good because there weren't many people there. The main course took a good 25 minutes to come because the place got quite crowded by then.
The Alfredo Chicken Pasta was really good. It was nice and creamy and cheesy. There were some herbs that they used in the pasta which made it taste just amazing. They did recommend that we should have it in Spaghetti which we didn't do. I would recommend it in Spaghetti because it would have soaked up the creamy sauce really well.
The Jerk Chicken Sizzler came with sautéed veggies, French fries and 2 chicken legs with jerk chicken sauce. The veggies were very well sautéed and very tasted. The fries were a little cold. I'm sure they were pre cooked and kept ready. The jerk chicken sauce was amazing. Tangy, a little spicy and the chicken was cooked very well. They normally serve it with herb rice or mashed potatoes but since we didn't want either, we asked them to give us more of the veggies.
All in all Mangrove for us was a good experience and I would definitely visit again.
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One thing that I would want to talk about is the sizzler's in Bangalore. It is very disappointing to know the quantity of the sizzler's out here. The sizzler's in Mumbai are much tastier and the sizzler pans are stacked and filled much much more than the ones out here. I am yet to taste a sizzler like the ones in Mumbai. I have been recommended a few places, will be going to try them out soon. I am open to suggestions about sizzler places in Bangalore. Do write in the comments section.
Check out Mangrove's menu on Zomato by clicking on the image below
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