Howzatt - the ONE and only in Country

Written by me on Burrp, Jan 21, 2009

This is kind of proud moment for me, to review a place that is one of its kind in not only in the city but country itself.

As many of us know that Micro-Breweries are quite popular in the west, however in India we do not have the culture yet. There are one that we thought would come up in Gurgaon and after following up for 6 months and that not opening, we gave up following up. But this weekend, my friends decided to meet at Howzzat and they told me that its a Micro brewery, I was surprised that I was not aware about its opening.

Now one I entered the place, I got the feel of a super expensive lounge, and I started taking account of the moolah I had in pocket :D. As the name suggestes, its a cricket theme places, with large screen and few more strategically placed screens. The seating looked quite plush and all the metal that was shining from the brewery made it look uber.

Anyhow, I settled down and looked at the menu, the first thing was beer, they have four different types of beer and 3 of them were not available at that time (it was 6 pm, we were told that other beers would be ready as evening progresses) so we ordered what was available.

So we started of with bouncer (name of beer), which was quite good in taste, rich, flavorful, smooth are few of the terms I can find to define it. After some time they asked us that they have some other beer also available, and gave us samples of the same, however compared to bouncer we did not like the other one too much. And later in the evening, they gave us more samples but we were happy with our bouncer itself.

Coming to food, we ordered lot of things and I not even recall the names of the same, but whatever we ordered was quite good and lapped up quite fast by our group. They had this preparation of mushrooms, which was particular favorite of our group and we made multiple orders of the same.

The price of beer were actual surprise for me, it was Rs.285 +taxes for a 1.5l pitcher, which is quite okay by any standards, and this we are talking about fresh and rich beer. However other drinks were super expensive, a large (60ml) Smirnoff costed around Rs.650. We ordered 7 or 8 pitchers of beer, 3 large Smirnoffs and lot of snacks, the total damage was close to Rs.7k.

I definitely recommend this place for beer drinkers, which is priced very well and tastes very well. An ideal place for couple of pints with your friends.

Howzatt
Hotel Galaxy, Sector-15, PART- II, NH-8, Exit-8, Sector 15, Gurgaon
Landmark: Behind 32nd Milestone
Phone: 4565000, 4032222