Food anatomization : Lazeez, Viman Nagar

Posted by storiesbyankita December 06, 2016

Food anatomization : Lazeez, Viman Nagar - Pune

Lazeez – a restaurant tucked away on one corner on the busy streets of Viman Nagar. It is easily noticeable among the many other restaurants open in the street.

They have seating arrangements outside and on the 1^st floor of the building.If you want to sit inside,the downside is you have to make your way through those creepy staircase and you must be extra careful making your way up or down.
Once on the 1^st floor – there is the room with about 7-8 tables, all bustling with people and just the 2 servers who are unable to manage the immense crowd.They are either mixing the orders or have a delayed response time. But on the plus side you would not find the tables vacant for more than 2 minutes at any point of time - it always had quick grabbers.

Let me get things straight – the restaurant has no décor whatsoever, you will just see a feeble effort to put the lights in a decorative lamp piece that’s it. The artificial roofing could be made a little more higher to help the taller guys and the claustrophic people like me to be at relief – each moment was as though the roof would fall down upon me. :P

So the sole purpose of being here was a friend from Hyderabad who just couldn’t just stop praising about Lazeez for its wondrous Biryani. His recommendation was what pushed us to savor on the delicacy in Lazeez – when recommendation comes from a guy who belongs to the place Biryani is known for, try karna banta hai! :D

They have an open kitchen counter setup at the entrance – where they were preparing the roomali rotis,tandoors. They did also have the shwarma chicken rolling on the split there.

Glancing at their menu – we learnt that HYDERABADI DUM BIRYANI has three steps to be ordered.

Choose your base – Chicken

Choose your serving size – Full (serves 2-3)

Choose the quantity of the masala – Medium

My friends opted for the MUTTON BASE HYDERABADI DUM BIRYANI AND THE EGG BASE HYDERABADI DUM BIRYANI.

And they were drenched in praises for the mutton base hyderabadi dum biryani.
The egg base hyderabadi dum biryani was good too.

Coming to the CHICKEN HYDERABADI DUM BIRYANI – biryani was accompanied by the masala and raita, both were nullified in the taste domain.

For me the biryani seemed little dry(also may be due to the absence of both the masala and the raita to eat along) – on second thoughts we could have opted for the Double masala too. But man, the typical biryani smell really lingered and led us wanting for more servings. The biryani was topped with boiled slices of egg. The chicken was cooked perfectly - tender and flavorsome and on a whole the biryani was spicy.

We ordered for a bottle of Thumbs Up to go along with the biryani – it helped numb the spiciness to quite an extent. J

There is such a demand for their Biryani – that they were out of the vegetable biryanis by 2130-ish,which forced a vegan friend of mine to go for the DAL KHICHDI which did not look appealing to me atleast, taste was okay-ish too.

We observed more than 80% of the crowd was here for their biryani's only.

Few pictures from the visit: