The Booty Call is a pocket-friendly cafe and another addition to the wide range of cafes in Satyaniketan, opposite Sri Venkateswara College. To locate the cafe you’ll have to navigate a little deeper into the market. Its USP is that the cafe also undertakes deliveries from dusk to dawn (which explains the off beat name), coming as a huge boon to college students living as paying guests in South Campus.
The cafe cannot exactly be said to have ‘dine-in’ facility. However it can accommodate 6-8 people on the mattress laid on the ground and another 2-3 on the bunk-bed style loft. The walls are covered with interesting one-liners like, “Live by the booty, die by the booty” and posters of popular culture references including The Joker from the Batman series. The cafe also provides some popular books and a few board games for customers to enjoy as their food is prepared, with the dishes being served on bed trays. Overall, The Booty Call offers quite a ‘jugaadu‘ experience as far as arrangements go.
For the food review, we were served cheese burgers, pasta in Alfredo sauce and tandoori sauces, grilled chicken sandwich and paranthas.
One can literally taste the freshly melted cheese slice between the buns. In spite of being an ardent chicken devotee, I found the vegetarian burger to taste better than the chicken variant. Next came the pastas. The sauce was a bit sour for my tongue, and olives dominated the dish more than the pasta itself. Nevertheless, ‘tandoori pasta’ isn’t an item you see on menus everyday. Full marks for innovation!
We were told that one of the chefs has previously worked in Old Delhi’s famous Paranthe Wali Gali. With that information came the final serving of paranthas and grilled chicken sandwich. The parantha did not match the hype it was surrounded with. On the other hand, the regular-looking grilled chicken sandwich turned out to be one of the best I’ve had in a while. The chicken was as minced as required and the bread was perfectly grilled. I did not even share the sandwich with my team!
In totality, I would go to The Booty Call again if I were a South Campus student. Although it faces stiff competition in Satyaniketan, the café is rather different when it comes to its concept and has a relaxed and easy going feel to it-perfect for those lazy late afternoons after grueling classes during the day.
Featured image courtesy: The Booty Call’s official Facebook page
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