As you enter the place,it seems you are in a sci-fic movie as you are greeted with mood lighting. Nicknamed SHR and its stark resemblance with a giant mushroom, the place has a white themed http://varunkaushik.com/userfiles/nightOut/http://varunkaushik.com/userfiles/nightOut/dining/dining/http://varunkaushik.com/userfiles/nightOut/dining/dining area, two lounge bars and an open air terrace bar. 

Brought to us by hospitality heavy weights Riyaaz Amlani ,Shiv Karan Singh, Harmeet Bajaj and joining the trio is Sid Mathur, a international epicurean recently returned to India. The Smoke House name has become synonymous with imperial quality in a restaurant.

While dipping arm-length breadsticks into the cutest pat of mushroom butter, made to resemble a wee tuffet of wild earth, Davide Zubani, the Italian sommelier chose cocktails and an extensive list of wine with every great degustation.The cocktails Room Royale & frost bitten mary were potent and chilled to unnaturally cold temperatures. The flavors were delicate yet pronounced.

Creating its own identity and claiming a position at the forefront of modernist fine http://varunkaushik.com/userfiles/nightOut/http://varunkaushik.com/userfiles/nightOut/dining/dining/http://varunkaushik.com/userfiles/nightOut/dining/dining Smoke House Room is a space where imagination takes to the plate. After honing his skills in Western cuisine during extensive experience as the executive head chef of Impresario, Chef Gresham’s visionary kitchen sorcery is a unique new style of gastronomy. “I’ve grown up cooking, he says. 

The vegetarian degustation menu, The Gatherer costs s 2,500, The Hunter which contains no pork is Rs 3,500 and the spectacular treat Smoke House Room Grand degustation that contains scallops, Angus, Foie Gras, black cod, mussels and much else besides, is priced at Rs 7,000. There is an adequate a la carte menu for those who cannot imagine themselves going through nine courses, porks and beef. Designed as a http://varunkaushik.com/userfiles/nightOut/http://varunkaushik.com/userfiles/nightOut/dining/dining/http://varunkaushik.com/userfiles/nightOut/dining/dining experience for the five senses, It is beyond the geographic extent to describe them all, but the one that stands out in my mind are sick Duck  breast , chef special kandy floss with chicken liver and crab cakes to name a few. While the dessert, a wonderfully smooth, chocolatey porcini ice cream with a coffee-flavoured marshmallow – was a sweet departure.

Anything I write would be diminutive for the room. In short, it was ‘Fabulously Smoking’J