Flags - The House To World Vegetarian Cuisine

Imagine a meal that marries the spices of india with the delicate balance of china, the texture of thai with the Arabic flavours. The fire of mexico and the traditions of Italy.

Flags is a Restaurant Specializing in vegetarian world cuisine. The menu is a surprising mix of the best Indian, Chinese, Thai, Arabic, Mexican and Italian dishes. Each cuisine is well represented by its most famous delicacies perfected to the last detail.

Flags has been one of the better places in Malad to enjoy your weekends from quite some years. Its a melting pot of Global Cuisines where a variety of cuisines are severed (at slightly high prices though) which do suit the Indian taste-buds.

 

Menu: 

Their menu includes every thing from Soups to amazing Starters to quite filling Main Course dishes to mouth watering desserts to just ok ok moctails.The menu is quite easy to browse through as usually having such a huge range of dishes under one roof, it becomes quite difficult to put it on the menu. Must say a job well done, you can directly browse to the desired cuisine as the pages are categorized via cuisines.

Defining the taste of all the dishes, it is a quite difficult task as all the cuisines though are different from varied parts of the world but are similar to taste (Indian), this is surely because the Indian taste-buds are very different and difficult to tease, which I must say is pretty well grasped by the restaurant and fulfilled through its wide fusionistic offerings. Every dish you have here is a marriage of the world cuisine with Indian spices, every dish which you have will have has a fusion of Indian Garam Masalas, so be it Mexican or Lebanese or any other cuisine it would have an Indian feel and taste. A strict NO NO for the mock-tails here.

 

Ambience:

Speaking about the ambiance, its truly a must experience, though too crowded and stuffed with furniture but is quite sober, soothing and gives an expensive feel. The tables are arranged side by side, so forget the privacy if that is your requirement. One interesting thing which is to be noticed is every table has 2 flags, one is obviously Indian and the second of some other country, which surely defines its positioning.

 

Service:

The service needs improvement (asked a waiter the difference between 2 soups which he dint knew) but can be overseen with the quality of mouth watering and delicious wide menu ranging from India, to Chinese, to Italian, to Lebanese and so on...

Looking at the service it feels like they are paying for your food, and their service is just a social service who are just ready to pack you up and prepare for other guests (slightly exaggerating), but this can be well supported with the long waiting queue which you see outside the restaurant.

I have been here twice and have been very satisfied with the Mexican and Italian. 

Mexican: Try the Verdura Quesadilla (fried tortillas with bean and cheese stuffing with sour cream piped on top) its just yummmmm and the cheesy nachos.

Italian: The pastas were good and cooked quite well. Also, the desserts seem good. I had the brownie which was very good.However, the sizzlers served aren’t very good - at least the one I had - Mexican one which was supposed to be very spicy - was sweet!! Maybe they are catering to the Gujarati community’s sweet tooth

If you wish to spend your evening in a relaxed manner, this place should be avoided as the waiters and management would be just in the state to pack you up and prepare for other guests. Should avoid this place if one has eaten and liked places like Kobes/Yoko/Mainland China/Lemon Grass, as you would not get the authentic taste which you get at this places.

But, whatever negatives people say about Flags, the Mexican and Italian food would always remind me of this place and I would surely keep on visiting this place again and again.

Not too expensive for a weekend, a meal for two would cost between 800 to 1200, which is quite descent

Stay Hungry Stay Happy :-)

Website: http://www.flagsdine.in/

Two outlets, one each at Malad and Goregaon