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METROSCAPE: LOOKING GLASS
BANGALORE
Pub
 To
replicate its success in Mumbai and the capital, Geoffrey's has
now opened shop in pub city Bangalore. From its stained glass windows,
wood panelling and artifacts imported all the way from London to its old
muskets and brass stools with leather tops and energetic bottle-juggling
bartenders, the atmosphere is very English. But in case you're wondering,
the spread on offer isn't. It ranges from Chinese to tandoori kababs,
succulent salads to seafood and juicy steaks. A set menu for lunch is
priced Rs 225 (with taxes) and includes a pint of draught, soup, an entree,
rolls and nachos, while a meal for two could come to Rs 400. Timings:
from noon to midnight. At KGA Road, Airport Road Cross. Call (080) 521-6228.
MUMBAI
Furniture
 If
your style is glass furniture, Verrerie offers handmade dining
tables, coffee tables, chairs, consoles, pedestals, sofa sets, also accessories
like candle stands, coasters, art works and photo-frames. Recommended
is their new magnique collection. Dining tables are from Rs 45,000 to
Rs 1 lakh. Accessories are from Rs 400 to Rs 4,000. At 1, Shastri Hall
Building, Tardeo Road, Nana Chowk. Call (022) 387-6460.
Coffee
Bar
 Coffee
Mantra, first of a chain of coffee shops set up by Birla Lifestyle,
promises to "change the way you drink coffee". Besides introducing
new flavours, like fresh juice mocktails with a coffee base or green tea,
also on offer will be coffee liqueurs and coffee laced with fruit, courtesy
a tie-up with Gourmet, a US coffee company. The vegetarian spread includes
Thai, Lebanese, Mexican and Continental cuisine. The draw: fresh herbs
and fat-free salad dressings At Queen's Mansion, Prescott Road, Fort.
Call (022) 200-3621/22.
DELHI
Art
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NGMA; Son of a Warrior
by Chughtai (left)
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The National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) is
back with a new exhibition, Dialogue, Interaction with Indian Art;
Part I-1850s onwards. It is the ngma's first show since the unsavoury
controversy last year in which the gallery refused to show Surendran Nair's
work of a nude Icarus standing atop an Ashokan pillar, leading to a boycott
by the rest of the artists in the group show. It is unlikely that there
will be any pictorial scares in this one though. All paintings have been
culled from the gallery's overflowing archives and cover a stylistically
diverse range from Thomas Daniell's academic Manaikarnika Ghat of Benaras
and M. F. Pithawalla's study of a Parsi woman to the more unfettered brushwork
of B. B. Mukherjee, Ramkinkar Vaij and Rabindranath Tagore. The arrangement
of works, according to ngma's new director Rajeev Lochan, hopes to relate
"visual culture through visual means" and draw parallels and
influences in imagery-such as the effect of Art Nouveau in the works of
A. R. Chughtai. On till September 30. Call (011) 338-4560.
—contributed by
Stephen David, Natasha Israni and Anshul Avijit
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