Barcelos

Find time for some adventures and give yourself a reason to step out of your comfort zone to try something new. Your regular haunts won’t do the job. Widen your horizon to look for a place that is bursting with innovation and vision. It’s time to find a place that will surprise your taste buds and give them a pleasing change from those good old curries or steaks. Extend your gastronomy knowledge beyond the conventional easily available fare and enter the exotic world of Portuguese cuisine with ‘Barcelos’. Barcelos has always been passionate about global cuisine served in a unique interesting manner and that is the USP of this popular chain of restaurants. Since its arrival in various corners of Delhi, the brand has reached the hip locales of Sector 29, Gurgaon and wooed the patrons with its vivacity.

Although India at one time was influenced by Portuguese cuisine, today there isn’t much left to celebrate the cuisine. But Barcelos is one place where you are sure to experience food in a new way. Portuguese, African and Lebanese cuisine is tackled here and chef brings in his own creativity to modernise the cuisines such as their red or black burger that seems to have taken the whole culinary industry by surprise. Pair their delicious molecular drinks with some appetizers, stuffed mushroom kebab, drumsticks, chicken wings, fish kebab, lotus stem & semolina kebab, peri peri paneer kebab, chicken livers with garlic roll and boneless thighs with onion & peppers. Dig into the menu further with, grilled trout fish, chicken espetada, soya bean keema sizzler, chicken trinchado with rice, falafel wrap and chicken steak.

Tuck into green tea honey cardamom ice cream or red velvet fondant or a traditional cheese cake, to round off the meal. They make some delicious cocktails inspired from Portugal and Spain to give you that authentic flavour. The striking façade of Barcelos opens into a casual good-looking room, decked up with bright cheerful furnishings. Flag designed cushion covers and photographs from exotic countries infuses the global flavour carried on by the theme. One thing you will find interesting is the convertible car being used as the booth, which is an ideal place for selfies. Barcelos will do wonderfully well to throw a small party as the place is exciting as well as reasonable.