Food tasting event : Box 8, Magarpatta City

Posted by storiesbyankita December 07, 2016

Food tasting event : Box 8, Magarpatta City - Pune

Finally I got to lay my hands on the food from Box 8 - it has been forever that I had been just thinking of ordering in from Box8.

When I got an invite from Ankush Goyal who is part of their core team to sample the food from Box 8 - no one was more ecstatic than me. 😃

Looked down at their menu online – it was an extensive, organised and fuller menu conceptualized on food being served in a box as one full meal.

They have divided their menu into sections of : All-in-1-meals,Pizza, 100% Natural Ice creams,Staples box,Biryani,Wraps,Sandwiches,Salads,Alacarte,Drinks and Desserts.

"So the idea of Box8 had come up from wondering why the likes of McDonalds & Dominos haven't emerged from India. Box 8 is just trying to be the answer- A Made in Indian chain for sumptuous Indian meals. A large urban population in metro cities frequently eats outside, courtesy their lifestyle or living away from family. And Box 8 intents to become a ‘go to’ brand for this set of customers.

Box 8 focuses in preparing food which is delicious, easy on the stomach and made from quality ingredients, allowing the consumers to order food frequently

Their mantra is: Serve what we love to eat.

They have a two fold intent, one is to offer the customers different experience through different categories and second is to be a one stop solution for a full course meal or for snacks:-

‘All in one’ offers a wholesome Indian meal with a main curry and a side curry along with rice or paratha and a dessert to compliment. ‘Box’ offers fusion of different indian delicacies like dal, Paneer, rice along with Chatni, salad etc.

Wraps, sandwich and salads in many cases acts like evening or late night snack.

Technology has helped Box 8 build platform between customers, delivery units, kitchen and vendors – which in turn has helped in seamless exchange of information, automated operations, and allowed them to take better, informed decisions."

Once the food arrived – which was loads of packages I must say.;) First and foremost thing that I did was click a picture of all the boxes with their lovely cute packaging and the interesting one liners on the packages.

The packaging of the food was very neat - everything lay intact, nothing spilt over!!

Coming to the verdict - I had ordered in for dinner the following items:

CHICKEN MAHARAJA MEAL - It was a fusion of the DESI CHICKEN IN SPICY CURRY, GRILLED KEBABS,DILLI CHOLE,RICE,SALAD and BROWNIE. The grilled kebabs were good but lacked flavors I would say. The dilli chole was my absolute favorite among-st all in the box. The rice based meal – chole combined with rice –waah!!

CHICKEN TIKKA BIRYANI - Tikka style chicken in a biryani, I had a small portion of the biryani and I absolutely relished it. Albeit, it was quite masaledar I would say - it can be reduced to a great extent. The chicken chunks had been tikka-ed and cooked in an assortment of the biryani masala and layered beautifully between the Basmati rice - the smell was sharp! It came with raita.

CHICKEN MUGHLAI - was a fusion of tandoor-ed pieces of chicken in way too dark brown-ish colored gravy. There was something very distinctive about all the masalas that were added in the chicken preparations in this dish and the desi chicken in spicy curry in the chicken maharaja meal that did not go quite well with me. It was a so-so dish.

TAWA PARATHA - loved the way they had been cut into them into small pieces and parceled into the tiny disposable boxes.

CHOCO LAVA CAKE - recently I had seen few posts on Instagram about their fabulous choco lava cake, it always amazes me to see how the chocolate oozes out as you slice through the tiny wonder. Obviously due to its similarity in name it totally draws its comparison to the choco lava cake from Dominos. Alas apart from the appearance, it could not match up to its counterpart in the taste ki duniya.

MASALA LEMONADE - a fresh drink to quench your thirst. Really first of a kind where I found a bottled lemonade close to what one could prepare at home. J

ICED TEA – nah, did not appeal me.

The service was prompt - yet Umesh who took my order had informed me well in hand there could be possible delays. I am fine with delays as long as they are notified ones. 😊

Few pictures: