Bengaluru’s Museum of Art and Photography has a new bistro. Does the culinary experience match the curation?

It is the archetypal wound of my sesame udon noodles astatine Bistro Cameo that wins maine over.

A depository day is the cleanable mode to bushed the Bengaluru vigor close now. That is what we determine arsenic we caput to Museum of Art and Photography (MAP) connected Kasturba Road. After an day of creation gazing, and whetted appetites, we caput upstairs to the museum’s caller offering, Bistro Cameo, an all-day eating edifice that turns into a barroom astatine night.

The bistro is chill and welcoming, with elephantine fiddle-leaf fig plants, rattan furnishings and shades of heavy browns and reds. The sculptural airy fixture successful the centre brings it each together. There is simply a abbreviated and concise paper which I ever appreciate. The unit are attentive but not overbearing.

Let’s speech food

Bistro Cameo is cuisine agnostic. There are comforting Asian dishes, unfastened sandwiches, and immoderate classical Italian options. We bid a fewer appetisers, which person immoderate hits and immoderate misses. The heavy and chewy sesame udon noodles are my favourite. Coated with a peanut and sesame dressing, the fried onions connected apical makes it a delight. The murphy hasselback is much similar a baked overgarment potato, topped with sour pick and chimichurri. The spud is comparatively bland, and we extremity up not finishing astir of it.

The earl grey pear crockery is simply a deed connected the table. Poached pears, lettuce, and crunchy granola bits marque up the dish. The flavours are connected point, you tin adjacent sensation the earl grey coming through, nevertheless I similar my pears to beryllium crunchier and with a bite.

The chips and dip are mezze themed here. So the crispy potato, beetroot and carrot chips are served with labneh and chilli crisp. You cannot truly spell incorrect with chips, tin you?

Something a small antithetic is the prawn aglio olio. A important crockery adjacent though it is simply a tiny plate, this 1 has a furniture of saffron couscous and chilli ail disturbance fried prawns tossed done it. The prawns are caller and flavouful, the wide operation is so-so.

The beverage paper has coffees and wines, and cocktails successful the PM. We opt for coffees, the jaggery oat latte is creamy and cleanable for the summer. The hazelnut latte is nutty and not excessively sweet.

We stock a main, the gochujang eggplant don. A information of atom is served with tiny cubes of eggplant, edamame and a Korean-style sauce. The condiment is delicious, but the magnitude of condiment is not capable for the dish. The eggplant bites are moreish and adjacent triumph implicit the eggplant skeptic connected the array (there is ever 1 isn’t there?). We person our eyes connected the Hainanese chickenhearted atom and the food laksa, and mightiness instrumentality to effort those.

We extremity with a portion of carrot cake. Spiced, and fruity this is reminiscent of a Christmas cake. The crisp pick food frosting and the carrot chips connected apical springiness it a contrast.

We wage arounund ₹5000 for a repast of three. The atmosphere, determination and vibe impressment us. Being centrally located is ever a plus, but the deficiency of parking is thing to support successful mind.

₹2,000 for two. At MAP, Kasturba Road. Closed connected Mondays. For much details, telephone 7411399943