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Relive the outdoor experience at `100ft'
The cool settings of `100ft' in Indiranagar.
THERE WAS a time when Bangalore, a City known for its glorious weather, was equally famous for its open-air restaurants. A cup of coffee or a mug of beer under the rain trees on a winter evening, lazy summer afternoons sipping iced tea under blue skies, this was an indulgence Bangaloreans took full advantage of.
Then the rain trees were cut down. The colonial buildings housing restaurants were pulled down. The whole concept of ``alfresco'' dining vanished for a while.
``100ft'', the boutique restaurant on -- where else -- Indiranagar 100 ft Road, now revives the outdoor experience, along with a host of other unique offerings. The restaurant serves Meditarranean food and this naturally includes Italian.
You have three choices of mood. The open courtyard under the sky, the dining area with complete cover and an understated ambience in which to enjoy your meal and the terrace lounge, where you can relax under a bamboo roof and admire the surrounding trees. Imagine pasta with a fiery sauce or succulent lamb chops followed by chocolate mousse, on a rainy day!
And, that's not all. "100ft" is unique in the sense that it is one of the first of its kind to create a restaurant interspersed with a store. While you wait for your order, you can browse through a range of furniture, textiles, carpets, glassware, tableware, candles, aromatherapy, books and much more.
Capitalising on the home layout, "100ft" displays each product in its actual environment, on a bed, a table, floor, etc. This gives the customer a complete walk through a stylish home and the opportunity to see the product usage as well. Each area is styled to showcase a complete collection and provides related products, look, material and colour theme. This gives the customer the convenience to pick up everything for the home from one source.
The store will display contemporary furniture and product designs, glassware from Aria, aromatherapy from experts, Forest Essentials and Breathe, and textiles from Zeba and Ultramarine. The look is contemporary, non-fussy and basic and was worked on by Bangalore-based architects, Mathew and Ghosh, and store conceptualiser, Aliyeh Rizvi.
In addition, "100ft" will display art and photography and can be used as a venue for product exhibitions, poetry readings and even select showings of fashion collections.
By Satyamurty K.
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