Last Friday we headed to Aurus in Juhu, and it lived up to my expectations, completely — pretentious and a total rip off!
The twit at the entrance asked us, with his fake accent, ‘ in what name have you made a reservation?’
‘No, er…we were told that we couldn’t make a reservation.’
“Maybe you got the wrong number, ” he tells us! I was appalled. We glared at him and he let us in, finally.
The food was delicious (entrees, appetisers, sauces, breads and all) and the jazz standards playing in the background were soothing, and a far cry from the usual stuff irrelevant stuff we get to hear. But the portions were meagre. And the sound system wasn’t geared up for the electronic jazz beats of Jalebi Cartel, post 10.30 pm.
As we left the venue, dinner and a couple of drinks later, the same twit at the door (with fake accent) was yelling at the entrance,” everyone move out, nandini needs medical care”. No one was paying attention and the place was teeming with more and more humans. I wanted to run away!
Give me Blue Frog any day(except for the Rs 300 non-cover ‘fee’ after 9 pm). The cocktails are fantastic. The decor is edgy. And you can wear something the cat dragged in, and still saunter in.
And yes, on the way out at Aurus, a couple of nerds were groping in the dark. Eeeooooowww!
I want to buy your restaurant guide when you publish it.
I was there too, but I guess I got the better side of the evening.
Yeah, the sound sucked, but even if that was okay, Cartel’s set was nothing to write home about. I didn’t have reservations either, but for some reason, I was politely made way for and escorted inside. Maybe I was in good company–or Isha Sherwani sitting just a few chairs away–but at the end of it all, it was a good night out for me.
I like the Frog too, but there’s something about standing at the fence staring into an endless, dark sea, sipping a nice cold one, listening to deep, progressive sounds that will take me back to Aurus on another weekend.