Cafe By Default - Lucknow

Place is nice but the food was not what I expected.

Taking too much time to serve order even there is no customers, food also not tasty, and too much expansive, like asking biryani rice u need to buy chicken alone or eat rice without chicken

Overpriced place with not so good food.. I ordered pasta and pizza.. pasta was good but pizza was opposite of that.. and the coffee was not good either

While ganjing with friends, we stumbled upon this amazing joint owned by winner of Masterchef India Season 1, Mrs. Pankaj Bhadouria. The food was really masterchefy. Sitting area was quite big, it had 20-30 odd tables. Mostly empty on a Saturday night, maybe due to the flavor they served was different from awadhi cuisine. Our order Wings on Fire and Dahi ke Sholey followed by Italian Meatball Pizza. Wings on fire was actually hot wings glazed with beautiful sauce, and to cool off, our dahi ke sholey came to the rescue. Wings were accompanied by one lemonade and kabab were served with a mayonnaise look-a- like mousse. Pizza had a little less to praise, they used parmesan cheese which is harder than mozzarella cheese which made it stretch more and had no gluey effect which we Indians enjoy in a pizza. Few of the dishes we order were unavailable at that time but it didn't kill our apatite. In baverages we ordered Classic Mojito, Tiramisu Shake and Spicy Guava Mojito, the latter was not available so instead we ordered Kiwi Mojio. Shake was thick and mojito's were refreshing. Overall I found something different in the awadh city which I really enjoyed. Love to by back and can't wait to try new dishes off their menu.

The place was closed yet Google maps were showing that it was open. I wasted my time coming to this place to see it was closed.