Fine dining at Fio, Garden of Five Senses!

- By Malvi

Having discovered Fio Restaurant from my internet search on food places in South Delhi, I decided to try it out with my friends for lunch on a lazy Sunday afternoon.

The place is near to Saket metro station and there is a narrow road just next to the metro station which leads up to the Garden of Five Senses. The historic monument of "Kila Rai Pithoura" – the first city of Delhi is also at the entry of this approach road to the Garden.

The restaurant is inside the Garden of Five Senses premise so you have to buy the tickets for the garden to go to the restaurant.

The open air ambience of the restaurant appealed to me as we entered the premise. There is a decent sitting capacity in the open air and also inside the air conditioned enclosure. The decor is ethnic with a big Gujarati swing in one corner and stone benches with cushions for sitting in another. There is also the traditional table and chair sitting with pedestal fans all around to keep off the flies and mosquitoes.

 Although we had gone in the afternoon, the decor of lamps and hanging lights meant the place would be really coming alive in the evening for a cosy and romantic dinner for a couple and even for a small group of friends.

Tablet Menus !!

As it was really humid that day we decided to sit inside the AC enclosure. We sat in a cosy corner and the waiter bought us our menus. Surprise ...the menus are actually tablets with details of the food and beverages served with pictures of the dishes.

The menu includes Indian, Continental and Italian dishes with a decent drinks collection. We decided to order a chicken appetizer ‘pollo padella di most’ and for the main dish ‘Kosha murg’ with some butter garlic nans and steamed rice.The preparations were really delicious and stunned my taste buds :). 

Baked Blueberry Cheese Cake

For dessert, we ordered the ‘baked blueberry cheese cake’, which was looking really tempting in my tablet menu.

The amazing desert rounded up our meal but we lingered on to just absorb the nice ambiance of the place. A meal of two would cost you around Rs 2000/- but the place and food does justice to the cost.

After the hearty meal we decided to walk off some calories in the Garden of Five Senses with its well kept gardens replete with flowers and bushes. The Garden is a favorite of lovebirds too (i am talking about the human ones ;))  !!

So all in all, in my view it's a  must visit food place to celebrate your special day with close friends !