Identified for its distinctive Asian delicacies, Cape City’s Awara – the brand new, stylish incarnation of the super-popular Bukhara – affords a drink and tapas menu to thrill and shock. Transfer over beachfront: phrase on the road is that that is the place to share a cocktail with mates.
Situated on Cape City’s quaint and arty Church Avenue, Awara’s early-evening attract is in that it’s a ‘high-end location the place the communal sharing of tapas follows seamlessly after a cocktail or three has damaged the ice,’ says proprietor Dr Sabi Sabharwal. So sit and peruse the drinks menu – whether or not you want your cocktails shaken, stirred or on the rocks, the names will delight, from Pani Puri Gin and Masala Previous Common, to Love in Goa and Kerala Desires.
Look additional, into the substances, and also you’ll discover that the fruits and spices that make Asian-fusion delicacies so deliciously distinctive do double obligation in these libations. Hibiscus, tamarind, mango and dhania are pleasant additions. Extremely really useful are the coy cardamom-scented Blushing Girl, the candy lemony Awara Elixir, and the granadilla-soaked Porn Star Mojito, a lime-free nod to Bollywood.
Really feel like one thing savoury to go along with your cocktail? Then solid your eye over the tapas menu. ‘Significantly fashionable are the Crispy Okra, a chickpea-battered okra with potato straw fries, the Rooster Satay, with pink and inexperienced curry marinade and signature spicy peanut sauce, and the Lamb Kofka, a minced-lamb kebab with dhania and inexperienced chillies,’ says Sabharwal.
In the event you had been acquainted with Bukhara, which occupied the identical inner-city location for over twenty years, a right away vibe-change will strike you on coming into Awara, which is casually stylish and really at this time. Named after the 1951 Bollywood film Awara (The Vagabond), that is an unique venue the place adults can meet and socialise in a classy house (kids beneath 12 should not permitted after 18h00). However the genuine feeling of a go to to Mom Asia stays, as evidenced by the attractive spice aromas wafting from the kitchen.
Vibrant, fashionable, and already a drawcard for its basic curries and fusion tapas choices, Awara, with its tongue-in-cheek cocktail menu, is quick turning into a best choice for after-work revelry.
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