McDonalds _ Baroda / Vadodara

Baroda is no better than Ahmedabad when it comes to late night food joints. Everything shuts down around 11 or 11:30 PM and you don’t have much choice left but to go to the food chains. Now I don’t have anything against the food chains but honestly some of them are detestable. I have formed a similar opinion of McDonalds based on the multiple visits to their numerous outlets. Let’s not even get started on how deceiving their advertisement pictures are.

So it is almost midnight and we want to go to the recently opened Tea Villa near Genda circle but they said they are closing so wouldn’t take any orders. So we ended up at McCafe near Manisha cross roads. It was densely populated for that hour but then it was the Diwali weekend so we weren’t surprised. We went ahead to order. The staff was very polite and courteous and had a ssmile on even at that hour, even with so many people around, which was great. We ordered from the new menu and asked for a takeaway. Even with so many people there was ample space for us to sit down and wait for our order. We did like the lovely yellow lighting.

Since we only had 2 drinks and a muffin to go, we did not have to wait long. We had placed an order for the Italian mocha shake and an American mud pie shake along with a chocolate chip and vanilla muffin. We did want to try the new “Flavours without Borders” and so that’s what we got. When the order arrived, no one told us which one was what so we took a sip and guessed the coffee in one of them, making that one the mocha shake. To be honest, both of them were a bit on the sweeter side and tasted the same, except for the fact that one of it had coffee in it. they had added so much ice that they were very gritty and turned watery after a while, when the ice melted. To be frank, they were just okay, given it was just a 100 bucks a piece we did not mind rally but its not something that you would go especially to have. The muffin was warmed up for us and it tasted just okay. We’ve had better. To be frank we thought the sweet muffin would go well with the coffee shake since it was supposed to be bitter, but since it was already sweet, it did not help much. Give them a try if you’re there. But a special visit should certainly prove disappointing.

Bon Appetit !

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