Restaurants in Cambridge

Here is a review of some of the restaurants in Cambridge that I have been to in the recent past. I hope to keep them updated with time.

Bombay Brasserie
Avoid this one. Terrible food, crap ambiance, average service.

Visited: Q4 2007
Address:


Dojos
I think that this one is a pick and mix kind of restaurant. You choose the sauce and decide whether you want to have it with Rice or Fat noodles or thin noodles. Overall, its quite cheap with decent food. Generally good for takeaways. I especially like the salad rolled up in rice paper and also the Yasai kare gohan/udon.

Grumpy service though and you usually end up sitting bum to bum with somebody from the table behind.

Style: Oriental noodle bar
Visited: 2005, 2006, 2007
Address:


The Rice boat
A good restaurant with authentic food. The menu is very different from the typical Bangladeshi restaurants. Slow service, a bit pricey and can be busy over weekends.

Cuisine: Authentic Indian
Visited: Q4 2006 and Q1 2007
Address:


Wok & Grill
Very Good, clean buffet style Oriental cuisine restaurant. I am not expert in authenticity but this feels great. You can choose the vegetables/fish/meat/poultry along with the sauce and take it to the chefs who will cook it for you in front of your eyes. It usually tends to be busy so over weekends book a table..

Visited: Q1, Q2 and Q3 2007
Address: Trumpington Road


Gardenia (Gardys)
Takeaway shop, not a restaurant. Very good.
I wonder why people eat from those night life vans when Cambridge has one of the best Falafel places that I have ever been to. Lots of choice, good food, well located and modestly priced.

Visited: 2005, 06, 07
Address:


Gourmet Burger Kitchen
Belongs to a chain of restaurants. This restaurant mostly has burgers on the menu along with some salad. The burgers are really nice but the place is quite small. Its also a bit pricey. Try out their recommendations/specials. The service was awful but I have only been there once (at an odd time) so, they might have other staff during weekends.

Visited: Q4 2007
Address: Regent Street


Al Casbah
One of the best restaurants in Cambridge. Very tasty food, not very expensive. Small and crowded.

Take care: No card payments accepted and you are not warned adequately. Get sufficient cash before you start eating.

Visited: Q3 2007
Address: Mill Road

Mac OS X Leopard

I upgraded to Leopard recently and I would say that this is probably the best update that I have seen so far (comparing to Jaguar and Tiger). The interface is so polished and well thought about. The layout of the system (for example network connections) is simple, uncluttered and yet packed with features.



Some of best bits that I have discovered so far are the sharing options that are available. It took me just a couple of clicks to see and control the entire screen of another mac from my mac. It again took me only a couple of clicks to create a computer to computer wireless network (802.11g) and login to another computer to access files. All the computers (including windows based) in the local network appear in the finder of the mac and can be accessed as if its just a drive on my machine. Spotlight search is incredibly fast. I can go on and on about this.

I used Vista for a while and frankly, it feels like a bunch of gimmicks put together with not much regard to intuitiveness.

LoL

A very funny read..