As much as you think the name is unusual so is its concept and taste. 'The Slaves' is the new addition to the City's culinary map. A fine-dine restaurant and cafe, Slaves has been designed to replicate great experiences and concepts its proprietor Babu Prasad has experienced on a gastronomy venture across the world.
Be its first branch in Pollachi or now in Coimbatore, the commonality of holding a distinct ambience is the speciality of 'The Slaves', the owners share.
“I have tried to incorporate a gamut of cultures that exists across the globe in not just our food but in our ambience too. We have paintings depicting, Roman, Indian, South Asian, English and the Egyptian culture. And the fascinating part to these paintings is that they are created by local painters and not any renowned artists”, points out the young restaurateur, who quit his IT Job for the love of hospitality.
“We have brought about every nuance of speciality to the restaurant with a single purpose to give our guests a royal treatment and we want them to feel like kings and queens while we are like the slaves to them when it comes to our hospitality”, explained Babu Prasad.
And that explains the unusual name “The Slaves”. The uniqueness just doesn’t stop with the name, What is outstanding is the concept of the restaurant too.
How often has it happened to you, where you cook in a restaurant assisted by a pro Chef? Well, never, right?.
Probably, at 'The Slaves' you could do that. Truly a never before heard of concept.
There is a concept of open kitchen in this restaurant, wherein if you think there is a certain recipe that is worth being cooked and shared, then all facilities are provided to the customers to cook for the guests to their taste.
"If the recipe is innovative and distinct in taste, the dish would be listed on the menu for others to taste and relish. One such recipe listed on the menu is of a French traveller who prepared a must try “Paris Apple dessert", says Babu.
When we asked the Chief Chef on how he feels about guests cooking in his kitchen, he said “Before I joined The Slaves, I worked as a Chef in Maldives at a seven-star hotel for 14 years. But this unique concept of opening the kitchen to the guest makes me a student to all the new recipes a guest shares through his cooking".
"It gives me a great insight into what kind of local tastes are preferred and how to bring in home flavours than practising the everyday school of thought recipes”, he added.
And in case your visit to the place is not to cook but to eat, then the Mutton Biryani cooked with hand pounded condiments and the Grilled Fish with Salad is a must try.
For all the weight watchers, the less on sugar, low calorie, Brownie is an absolute delight.
So go ahead to be enslaved to good food and an eclectic ambience at 'The Slaves', on Avinashi Road.
