Halo Cocktail bar and kitchen opens in Hyderabad
- The Hindu
- Oct 23, 2023
- 2 min read
Here is a place where the outdoor seating will not want you to move from there.HaloCocktail bar and kitchen takes inspiration from Nature. Once inside, the interiors will take you by surprise as it is mostly done with bamboo and rope. The restaurant’s dining space is spread over the outdoor and indoor sections, and the first floor as well.
Halo’s culinary offerings range from succulent salmon skewers, punugulu with smoked tomato chutney, BBQ 5 spice chicken and mushroom kofta skewers with Truffle ricotta cannelloni. What I had was Karimnagar prawns and Calamari rings for starters. The prawns, a recommended dish, finished with a spicy powder, was quite something. Spicy and hard to stop at one! The generous serving of fried curry leaves as garnish added that extra South ‘Indianess’ to the dish. The Calamari rings were batter-fried, but the batter was a tad more than what I would have liked. Nevertheless, the rings were firm and chewy and not rubbery. The slightly sweet meat went well with the sweet-sour dipping sauce.
As I sat licking the spice from the prawns off my fingers, I noticed the adjacent table ordering something with cute little pavs. Apparently, the outlet’s pav combinations are their best sellers. So, I asked for keema pav. It was a spot-on classic dish, a delicious blend of minced mutton and peas, a mildly spiced dish. I mopped it up with the pillowy homemade bite-sized warm buttered-pavs. The other recommended dish was the Baked mud crab meat served in its shells and baked with cheese topping. Going easy on the dressing will enable crab meat lovers to relish the actual sweet crab meat.
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