Love & Cheesecake, Mumbai

LOVE AND CHEESE CAKE, Powai

I am going to be combining my two visits to the two-different out-lets of this place, one in Carter Road, the other in Powai. The first was because dessert had been calling out to us while we were roaming the roads of Carters, Bandra. The second being fairly recent and planned. I guess the success of the first visit led to the second one, as I wanted to try out more flavors before putting up a review. 

Cheese cakes is my weakness, the few things that you can use to bribe me if you want some favor from me, put me off my diet (which I am never on anyways! :P), but I hope that puts across the point I am trying to make. I can never refuse cheese-cake, be what may. For a food lover, who wants to explore, I some times feel like, I still try to find my comfort zone where I don't have to try something extreme. For example, I had a while ago tried Burmese cuisine and it did not sit well with me, try as I may. Though, I still want to give it another try, like I always say you should know what to order as well, like the recently popular Baos, which I did indeed like. 

Okay, getting back to love and cheesecake, well its a one word actually, cheesecake = love. :P. The decor in both the outlets were distinctively apart from each other. The Carter Road one does not have any seating available and is only take-away, but the chandeliers and lights used seem much more inviting in this place. Moreover, they have more options on their menu besides cheese-cake like pancakes and waffles. This is something that was not available as far as I could see at the Powai outlet. If they did indeed have, they would have if nothing a small kitchen, or waffle makers or anything that gave indication, which was a little disappointing as on the small tables laid here, there was table triangles advertising Hot Chocolate which looked very tempting. I should have asked, but I didn't. I have to speak of the small round tables and the aristocratic chairs they had uses in the Powai outlet. You know how as a child, girl child, you play with barbie-dolls and do tea parties, with Doll Houses which have pink cushioned- on royal looking white chairs?!. That was made the insides of this little outlet. I did indeed feel like I was having a tea-party without the tea. I guess, all in all, both the outlets had their own perks.

In totality I have tried 5 cakes from here, The Baked Oreo Cheese cake, The red velvet cheese cake, Brownie Baked Cheesecake, Dulche De Leche Baked Cheesecake and the Belgian Chocolate Marquise Chocolate Cake. In exception of the last one, all the other four were cheese cakes. If I had to rank in Order, it would be Brownie, Red Velvet, Oreo, Belgian Chocolate Marquise and then Dulcha De Leche. Their cheese cakes are heavy, mind you and hence it is advisable to not go here after a very heavy meal, which I had done the first time round. But even then the love for cheesecake had made me not a single morsel go to waste. :D To be very frank, the cheese cakes are extra-ordinary and I love the quality of the cheese cake, you can tell that they have used extremely high quality ingredient. What would be the minus point? That there feels to be more of other ingredients than the cheese cake, especially in the Chocolate Cheese cake, where I could hardly feel any cheese to be around. in fact, there was more of chocolate cake and hardly any signs of cheese or chocolate-cheese, fell more or less like having chocolate cake. The Brownie cheese cake was my favorite of the lot, which had a perfect balance between the chocolate and the brownie based used. It would be an almost tie between the Oreo and the red velvet. Though, I have to say this, that the brownie cheese cake that I had had from Rolling Pin is still the best. The Chocolate Marquise, was chocolate and for something that says Hey! I am chocolate and does not pretend to be something else, is actually really-really- good.

I fell in love with cheese-cake before it became trendy. Yes, like fashion, food also has trends and this trend is in full swing for the past few years, and for some one who has had a weakness for cheese cake from before, I can tell you this, you are missing out, if you havn't been here yet. Like the name says, its love at first cheese cake! :)

WHAT WE HAD - Oreo Cheese Cake (Yumness!!)

                           Brownie Cheese Cake ( Need More...!!)

                           Red Velvet Cheese cake (A knock on Heaven's Door!)

                           Chocolate Marquise ( Yum-Yum and yum so more!)

                           Dulcha De Leche Cheese cake (Need more of cheese??!!)

DAMAGES - Rs 150-180 is a cost of a single cheese cake

WHERE - Love and CheesecakeEden 2, Central Ave, Hiranandani Gardens, Powai, Mumbai

               Shop 10, Gagangiri, Off Carter Road, Bandra, Mumbai