By Sreejita Talukdar, Content Writer, Homes

The Trend-setter Thematic Restaurants You Must Visit

In today’s contemporary corporate world people stick to their office chairs and spend a hectic schedule throughout the office hours, so when they go out to dine they find which gives them aesthetic touch of décor with extravagant delicacy of their choice. The taste of food is of course important to run a restaurant but the decoration and presentation of food also plays a pivotal role in gaining the extra coins of profit in the business. 

After the pandemic people always seek the opportunity to go out to assemble at a place to dine and exchange gossips, if foods and gossips come with such eye-striking decoration then nothing like it.There are a chunk of restaurants which are attracting people with the extravagancy of their theme with delicious delicacies.

There are plenty like this in India. Let’s see what those are-

Kaidi Kitchen, Kolkata- This restaurant is based on the theme of a jail in which the customers areoffered food like they are jail inmates. The whole restaurants are decorated by iron bars and big iron doors. The waiters will serve food wearing the dress of prisoner. The security guard or the gate keeper is dressed as police officer. The whole place gets you a vibe of a correctional home accommodating eight people in each cell. Besides such a unique style of décor the food is also sumptuous. This unique style café has set a trend and people around Kolkata and outskirts are standing in queue for long hours just to take a look and click pictures. If you are a non-veg lover then it is not the right place for you as it only offers vegetarian food.

Black Pearl, Bangalore: If you are Pirates of the Caribbean fan and want to see yourself as Johnny Depp then this restaurant will provide you that golden opportunity where you can get such props and décor which can bring you to that place for a moment. This restaurant in Bangalore is famous for its rum based cocktails because rum is like tonic for the pirates. The perfect theme with lip smacking foods has made this place acclaimed these days. The music and lighting also adds to making the ambience more prominent. They are North Indian, Chinese Barbeque, special choices of cocktails. The profit can be estimated by the long queue outside the restaurants.

The Gufa, Bangalore - As soon as you hear the name a picture of a cave will turn up in front of your eyes. Truly the café offers you that interior which can give you a feel to be inside a cave having delicious meal. The structure and texture of the interior of this restaurant strikingly gets you that pleasure of eyes where the flame torches are burning and shedding a subdued ray of lights which makes you straight to the movies where we find such mysterious caves under the hills or under the ground. The props used and the seating arrangement of the café are adding up to the rightness of the theme. This place offers a wide variety of North Indian, Pakistani and Afghanistani cuisine.

UFO Revolving Restaurant , Mumbai - Have you think of riding a spaceship? This restaurant will take you to that special atmosphere with a perfect balance of scientific advancement with modern architecture. The revolving lights and tables will make you spellbound at the site. The interior of the café is wholly white where the lights playing its part with a screen hanging from the ceiling makes you feel like you are travelling to the outer space with this spaceship. The thought of having a lip smacking meal inside such a magnificent yet astonishing atmosphere can give you goose bumps.  They offer Indian, Chinese, Thai cuisines with variety of cocktails, mocktails and beer.

Silver Metro, Bangalore- This is the best place for those people who search good food in affordable prices and if it comes with such a unique theme and structure then nothing like it. This place offers you a wide variety of tasty dishes of different cuisines.  Coming back to the interior it has picturesque view with lots of silver toned lights and the walls are designed in shape of a metro. The tables and seats are arranged just like they are arranged in a train. The corridor of the restaurant is designed as the standing area of a metro with handles hanging from the ceiling. This place offers a delicious buffet meal consisting around 40-45 varieties starting from starters to desserts along with A-La-Carte menus, which comes in pocket friendly price.This impeccable design of art will not disappoint you for sure.

Tihar Food Court (Delhi)- Crimes can happen any day anytime knowingly or unknowingly sending the criminals behind the bars for a few years or span of a lifetime. Once they are thrown behind the bar they are totally separated from the natural rhythm of a social life. In such a situation Rehabilitation is the only way to bring them back to normal life because they are human being after all. Too err is human. Asia’s largest and one of the oldestjail, Tihar Jail has converted one part into a unique restaurant where the foods are served by the jail inmates themselves. This unique idea of connecting the jail inmates with the natural rhythm of social life is an award winning thought in itself. It’s our social duty to bring the jail inmates back to their normal life because being guilty and getting imprisoned for years changes the life of a person drastically demolishing his confidence to get up in life. The convicts are trained by the experts of the hotel industry about the hotel etiquettes like how to serve the meals, how to take orders and most importantly how to receive and bidding a goodbyeto the customers. This place offers North Indian cuisine in a very affordable price. The interior of the place is adorned with the paintings of the jail inmates with cozy seating arrangements in jute and wooden furniture. After launching the restaurant it has already created a storm in the market, people are queued up in front of the restaurant to taste the lip smacking meals and also people are appreciating the service of the convicts and helping towards their rehabilitation. So, eating here will satisfy your taste-buds at the same time it gives you a golden opportunity to contribute something to the society.

Igloo Café, Gulmarg- This café has become the newest sensation of Kashmir and attracting a huge number of visitors owing to the tourism business of the state soon after its inception. This is country’s first and Asia’s largest restaurant which is made in form of an igloo by the Kolahoi Green Group of Hotels. The whole design was created out of snow measuring 22 feet in diameter, 12.5 feet in height which can accommodate 16 people at a time in four tables inside. The outer covering of the restaurant measures 26 feet in diameter and 15 feet in height. The whole structure of this amazing restaurant was built by taking inspiration from the foreign designers by using the local ingredients and local man force. As soon as you enter through the arched door it will feel like you have flown away to Alaska or Greenland. Coming to the foods, it is truly appetizing. It is open till the midof  March After that it closes for the visitors.

Ciclo Cafe- This is a cycle themed café which was created by converting a part of a bicycle store by touch of unique architectural advancement. This is a cosy place for dine out with top-notch facilities in town.The interior of the café is designed in a luxurious manner by using different parts of bicycle. The wheels and spokes are used as wall art and hanging lights. Initially, it was started in Chennai, thinking of the bicycle enthusiast who would gather and gossip over new trends of cycle and discuss their daily exercise regime but later it was opened for all after noticing the grand success of the theme. Here you can watch and visit the bicycle store which is attached to the restaurant where top brands of cycles are showcased. Besides offering Indian cuisines they offer Italian and continental cuisines with hot drinks of your choice here at affordable price. Till date they have created many brands and food chains acclaimed by many awards and achievements.

The Bar Stock Exchange - Bar Stock Exchange is a chain of business where the price of the drink goes up and down with the demand just like the prices fluctuate in the stock exchange. There is a big screen at the center of the café where the prices of the drinks are shown with their respective prices.  The interior of the café cum bar is so refreshing with vibrant colourful lights and wall art including small quotes giving it a subtle touch of modern sophisticated look. Every nooks and corners of the place will excite you to see the whole set up. They have a special tool called market crash, the owner uses this tool to adds up to the excitement of the visitors and by this tool they also control the price of a particular drink so that it doesn’t get overpriced or underpriced. Each bar stock exchange has different style of architecture and interior design and menu. Mostly the continental cuisines along with few Indian and Chinese dishes are offered here. Artificial Intelligence is used in their in-house app where the customer can order food or the waiter can take order online using their app. The token number of the order is shown on the big screen informing whether your food is ready and what the price range is. The very first outside of Bar stock Exchange was opened in Mumbai By Mihir Desai after that it spread in 20 cities across India. The interior of each outlet is one of a kind having the comfort food with a cozy seating arrangement. This is a perfect place for youngsters who love partying.

Runway 1, Delhi – This is a fine example of architectural advancement. The whole structure of the restaurant is just like an airplane and the sight of the interior of the place will take you to a journey where you can enjoy modern delicacies by sitting by the window. The texture of the walls, the position of the lights can’t make u understand even for a second that you are not flying but eating food sitting inside the café. They have seating arrangement in the balcony as well where you can enjoy appetizing food sitting in the lap of nature. They offer North Indian and Chinese cuisines along with beverages of your choice.  you have to collect a boarding pass just like you need before entering in a flight, the menu card is also designed very uniquely keeping in mind the theme. The use of light in the interior and exterior of the restaurant will blow your mind as you can’t distinguish between the artificial and real one. All in all the whole set up will definitely give you the feel of airport as if you are walking through the corridor to reach the runway to fly to your destination.

In this social media driven world people tend to post photos of foods and the interior of the places before even tasting the food. In such a situation these theme based restaurants are emerging like mushrooms and becoming the talk of the town. People are buzzing in front of the places to keep their social media handle updated giving such places the golden opportunity to put some extra bucks in their pockets.