Nearly two years after the launch of its hugely successful Food & Beverage brand Farzi Café in Gurgaon, Zorawar Kalra, founder and managing director of Massive Restaurants Pvt Ltd, is opening the fifth and biggest outlet of Farzi Café in Bengaluru, mid-June. Farzi Café is a casual, fine dining gourmet Indian culinary experience that marries global cuisine with Indian influences, contemporary presentations, preparation styles and ambience, Zorawar, son of celebrity restaurateur Jiggs Kalra, said.

Located in UB City, the 11,000 sq ft restaurant where two-thirds of the dining space is alfresco, is being set up at a cost of $1 million and will seat 250 guests.

Special features

Unlike the other four Farzi Café outlets in Gurgaon, Mumbai, Delhi and Dubai, here, 25 per cent of the menu is specially created for Bengalureans. Another unique feature of this outlet is a microbrewery to cater to the beer-lovers of Bengaluru, offering 16 types of beers including signature craft beers and tap beers. A high-energy bar and a live music stage for gigs are the other attractions.

 “Farzi Café, a modern Indian Bistro, is perhaps the only brand that has attracted a whole new demographic section, the youth, back to Indian cuisine. Normally, Indian restaurants are chosen by youth only to celebrate Dadaji’s birthday or Mummy-Pappa’s wedding anniversary, not for date nights or meet-ups or other youthful celebratory occasions. The average price per guest is ₹800 for a full meal with a starter, main course and dessert,” said Zorawar Kalra, who was in the city on Sunday to oversee the final touches.

 ₹30 crore investment 

Massive Restaurants currently operates five brands of premium fine dining restaurants – Farzi Café, Masala Library by Jiggs Kalra, Made in Punjab, Pa Pa Ya and  MasalaBar.

“We have nine restaurants of our five brands across the country and Farzi Café Bengaluru is our 10{+t}{+h} restaurant. Including this one, we are opening five restaurants at a total investment of ₹30 crore over the next three months – Made in Punjab in Bengaluru and Noida, Masala Library in Delhi and Farzi Café in Pune,” said Kalra, who is confident of hitting revenue of ₹200 crore by October from ₹100 crore now.

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