REVIEW-Waghbakri tea lounge
Ok why WaghBakri Tea lounge review by "The Great Indian Coffee Blog"????????
Of all the tea produced in India 70% is consumed in India itself. And has the potential to become a strong competitor for coffee. It’s always wise to do a competitive analysis once in a while to see how they measure up. So here we present the review of the WaghBakri Tea Lounge - Vile Parle
As soon we entered the smell of elaichi was in the air and was enticing. High hopes and good wishes to the one its kinds initiative we picked a seat. It was small but well lit outlet with a sofas and normal tables and chair s. The ambience had a red tinge to it and the walls were stuck with quotes and thoughts on tea. The counter and a rack near it were stacked up with the different varieties of tea
which WaghBakri sells. But they did not fit the ambience which looked at the lower end of premium-ness and the packaging of WaghBakri tea was middle class. A premium-ness mismatch I should say
The menu was not one of the very appealing menus I have seen but there was a mix or rather a struggle to sneak in both western and Indian snacks into it.
Apple pie, Patra, Bhakarwadi, Chocolate truffle, Kachori, Kara biscuit, coleslaw sandwich, multigrain corn and capsicum Panini.
As you can see it just had them all thrown in. The menu could have been more segmented in the kinds of food offering but it was all jumbled up.
A few tea offering were interesting - Chocolate tea, Tea with ice cream but the rest were the routine. Elaichi tea, favoured ice teas. No tea slushes, no wow-ness in the tea and most of all no descriptions below the menu items. It’s like they are saying "you have it here and it’s so common you should have already known it we are doing nothing wonderful" A world famous Darjeeling tea lie there
without description. I felt a few good teas just were not given their due importance
How did it taste???????
A chocolate tea supposedly comes in two cups a pot. No hint of it in the menu I wonder what happens if a single soul goes there. He will end up having two cups of the tea But it was nice and new. The chocolate dint jump out but was subtle in taste along with the fragrance of the tea. Not bad deal.
I wanted the only other interesting tea in the menu - the tea with an ice cream dumpling but the waiter warned us that it would take more than 20 minutes to get so we chucked that.
The food was bad and this is an understatement and is subtly put. The apple pie was smaller than a muffin and cost-ed more than it. Half of the items on the menu were just not available to taste at all. Half of it could simply be wiped off the menu.
The multigrain corn and capsicum sandwich was horrible to say the least. It was true to its name. There was multi grain bread, corn and capsicum and NOTHING ELSE. No flavour, no spice, no masala probably a hint of salt
There was bun-maska which was probably the safest item on the food menu but otherwise the price and the taste nothing justified eating there
Lots of scope for improvement in terms of the ambience, positioning, food items, menu....ah chuck it everything
So here by I proclaim that a competitor from the tea world is far off on distant shores from the coffee havens we have.
Hail coffee :D :D
Of all the tea produced in India 70% is consumed in India itself. And has the potential to become a strong competitor for coffee. It’s always wise to do a competitive analysis once in a while to see how they measure up. So here we present the review of the WaghBakri Tea Lounge - Vile Parle
As soon we entered the smell of elaichi was in the air and was enticing. High hopes and good wishes to the one its kinds initiative we picked a seat. It was small but well lit outlet with a sofas and normal tables and chair s. The ambience had a red tinge to it and the walls were stuck with quotes and thoughts on tea. The counter and a rack near it were stacked up with the different varieties of tea
which WaghBakri sells. But they did not fit the ambience which looked at the lower end of premium-ness and the packaging of WaghBakri tea was middle class. A premium-ness mismatch I should say
The menu was not one of the very appealing menus I have seen but there was a mix or rather a struggle to sneak in both western and Indian snacks into it.
Apple pie, Patra, Bhakarwadi, Chocolate truffle, Kachori, Kara biscuit, coleslaw sandwich, multigrain corn and capsicum Panini.
As you can see it just had them all thrown in. The menu could have been more segmented in the kinds of food offering but it was all jumbled up.
A few tea offering were interesting - Chocolate tea, Tea with ice cream but the rest were the routine. Elaichi tea, favoured ice teas. No tea slushes, no wow-ness in the tea and most of all no descriptions below the menu items. It’s like they are saying "you have it here and it’s so common you should have already known it we are doing nothing wonderful" A world famous Darjeeling tea lie there
without description. I felt a few good teas just were not given their due importance
How did it taste???????
A chocolate tea supposedly comes in two cups a pot. No hint of it in the menu I wonder what happens if a single soul goes there. He will end up having two cups of the tea But it was nice and new. The chocolate dint jump out but was subtle in taste along with the fragrance of the tea. Not bad deal.
I wanted the only other interesting tea in the menu - the tea with an ice cream dumpling but the waiter warned us that it would take more than 20 minutes to get so we chucked that.
The food was bad and this is an understatement and is subtly put. The apple pie was smaller than a muffin and cost-ed more than it. Half of the items on the menu were just not available to taste at all. Half of it could simply be wiped off the menu.
The multigrain corn and capsicum sandwich was horrible to say the least. It was true to its name. There was multi grain bread, corn and capsicum and NOTHING ELSE. No flavour, no spice, no masala probably a hint of salt
There was bun-maska which was probably the safest item on the food menu but otherwise the price and the taste nothing justified eating there
Lots of scope for improvement in terms of the ambience, positioning, food items, menu....ah chuck it everything
So here by I proclaim that a competitor from the tea world is far off on distant shores from the coffee havens we have.
Hail coffee :D :D