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In case the rain took you by surprise during the promenade around Rail Transport Museum, stop by this restaurant. Try Italian cuisine here. At Cafe At ICC, clients may have delicious coffee.
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Patel Chowk
Nyaya Marg, New Delhi, Delhi, India, 110021
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Everything else aside, try to go here just to try the creme frettata. Its a lovely desert where custard cream fritters are served with a lovely cold custard dip. The pastry shells are warm, light and flaky, and the custard just fills your mouth with a fresh creamy taste. The accompanying dip is a cold custard so if you find it too hot initially you can dig into the dips. I just fell in love with this pastry.
The coffee here is good - strong and robust which appeals to the South Indian in me who detests the milky liquid offered as coffee in most of North, West and Central India. Coffee comes with mini sesame biscuits. I ordered the Cafe Americano with milk on the side, a Veg Antipasti platter for the savoury and a Creme Frettata for the sweet. (I may have messed up on the name of the dessert and if you know that I got it wrong please go ahead and name the correct item in the comments below)
Service is efficient. Water comes in as soon as you are seated and they have the option of regular as well as mineral water - This is a good start as I always appreciate restaurants who ask you for water immediately and provide regular water without too much kich kich. It never fails to amaze me why restaurants create so much of a fuss to serve you regular water, especially in a country which has 8 months of summer.
The Veg Antipasti platter had no major surprises but everything was fresh and tasty. The one pleasant surprise was a creamy savoury cheesecake which was smooth and went easily down the throat. The salad leaves were fresh and crisp. The grilled vegetables were done perfectly. There was a little aubergine mashup with tomato which was really amazing tasting. I never fail to get amazed at the transformation of the humble baingan of Indian cuisine to the delicate tasting supreme aubergines of Italian & Greek cuisine. It took me some time to get used to this new avatar of the baingan but I have now grown to like it and appreciate a well grilled Aubergine/Eggplant/Baingan.
In a previous visit my friend and I shared the Non vegetarian antipasti platter which consists of cold meat cuts with salad and the Aubergine tomato mashup. I am not a big fan of cold meat platters and happily gave way to my friend on the meat cuts. Her verdict was the meat was excellent - the ham was a bit saltier than she liked but she said that is normal.
All in all lovely ambience, quiet efficient service, great food and a good cup of coffee.
A cafe inside the Italian Embassy's cultural center serving fresh salads, crisp pizzas and hand-made pastas in a serene garden landscape - this is too good to be true! While, the cafe gained popularity once Vir Sanghvi proclaimed it to serve India's finest pizzas, it frankly didn't need any of that publicity. The patrons of the cafe, mostly Italians with a few gastronomically inclined locals, have been enjoying lazy Sunday lunches in the sun soaked garden for years now. Though, we members are now lamenting that our once secret cafe has become so sought after that it is getting increasingly harder to snag a table. People often ask me when so many other restaurants in the city also serve quality pastas and pizzas, whats the big deal about the food here? Maybe its the allure of secrecy, or maybe the aura of exclusivity? Either way, each guest I have taken to this cafe has finished their meal and immediately run to the admin office to seek an application for membership. It is rumored that being a member here is akin to being a member of the unofficial Italian gastronomical society of Delhi!