A permit room in India is that section of a restaurant where it is permitted to serve alcoholic drinks. When I heard about Permit room the new lounge on magrath road , my curiosity took its toll. I have been wanting to visit the place from long and alas! ended up going over the weekend . A lot of expectations loaded i decided to visit The Permit Room 🙂

Before I entered the “place”, this board (refer image below) was quirky and I liked it . It was a nice place aka permit room with low light and less crowded as it was around 7 pm on a saturday evening .

The first order was Kane West(sexy name aint it?)  , it was nothing but our very own Kane fish , deboned and tava fried and then I spotted Cubbon Park Salad which apparently is inspired by the carts at the park. Cubbon park has a special place in my life so I chose to order it ..  It was grated cucumber ,baby corn, chilli peanuts , lettuce .Both were ok , I be had a lot expectations . The dressing for the salad as mentioned in the menu was missing . So we ate the kallepori and the salad just like that. The presentation was beautiful look below ..

Since I dont drink I chose to order a crab rasam, it came in a fancy jar like below. Basically crab was in the bowl and the rasam in the jar. I wasted it as the coriander was over powering and it reminded me of something I dont like . Oh btw! I am a huge rasam fan. I can live on rasam rice everyday .. 

 

My friend wanted to eat potato and hence we ordered cheesy gun powder pondy fries. For some reason my friend couldn’t eat it beyond a piece and hence wasted it 😦 . The dip was good , however the fries were too cheesy and the gun powder was leaving a weird after taste or was it the curry leaves ..

We dont give up you see so another potato dish and this was called crushed baby potatoes tossed in peanut masala . This wasn’t bad so this was nibbled with the drinks by my friends  . 

while this was all happening , I sneaked in the Baked mysuru pak which was in the dessert section of the menu and it was mind blowing. So well done and truly a fusion dish . This is something all of us on the table relished . Main course was not on our mind by the time we finished this so headed out to grab some dinner. Friends settled for some steaming haleem while I decided not to indulge in anything more…

The Menu card 

Below is the coaster I liked. Put one 😀 

It wasn’t my day , or may be we ordered the wrong dishes . The setting was good, service was good in the beginning and as the crowd started pouring in say by 9ish there wasn’t anyone to even look . I would say an “aye” as experiences can change and food may be different on another day . Enjoy maadi 🙂