Cinco is a really beautiful, funky, awesome new restaurant at The Mills, which is just exploding and becoming the hippest and coolest part of town. Cinco means '5' in Spanish is named so because of the extremely passionate 5 people who came together to open this place. The open air section is beautiful and has a Mediterranean vibe. The indoor section is pretty rad, like being in a super exclusive club in Ibiza or something. Funky crazy interiors, velvet lines sofas and soft lighting makes you want to party all night. They even have their own dedicated Patisserie for lovely bakes and cakes.
I was invited to Cinco for their Sunday Brunch and I was quite looking forward to it! Only problem was it didn't start till 1pm, making it more of a lunch but the vibe of the place and drinks kept us going.
Drinks
Green Apple Sangria and Tomatina Sangria was soothing and super tasty.
Their cocktails, though, just blew my mind.The B-Annanas, a cocktail with banana infused rum, passion fruit etc was absolute smashing! Looked so beautiful in the brass glasses and it was sweet, fruity, potent and super fun!
The biggest surprise were the 'Tea Cocktails' which were exactly as mad as it sounds, but let me tell you, were really nice, especially if you're a fan of high-end teas, black tea or green tea. Not everyone may like it, but really worth a try as they have a really soothing, sweet and mature flavour. They are even served in a specially designed exquisite cup on a glass stand!
Jasmine Tea Cocktail - Sweet with great flavour of rosemary!
Camomile - Milder, slightly less sweet with litchie and such a pretty rose on top!
Oolong Tea - Amazing litchie and lemongrass flavours.
Speciality Cocktails - These were a bit mad, utterly beautiful and really interesting. With these cocktails, the whole restaurant is gonna be looking at you.
The Honeybee Comb was the maddest. Specially designed glass and metal contraption made to look like a bee. It contained Turmeric flavoured Tequila which was super innovative and it tasted delicious.
The Kiwi Mist and Smokey Pokie were amazing too! The latter was given a wonderful smokiness with a smoker. All these cocktails took us back to chemistry class from school!!
The Food
We started off with some Crispy Chicken which was fantastic. Really crispy, juicy flavourful chicken inside, tasted amazing with the dip! The Wok Tossed Vegetables too was crispy and had a great garlicey caramelly taste.
The pizzas were fantastic! Cheesy, really great sauce and toppings with a thin crust. The BBQ chicken and the Margherita were my favourites.
The Middle Eastern starters of lavash, pita and bread with Hummus (plain, green peas & beetroot), salad and pickled vegetables gave a wonderful light healthy addition to the starters.
Mains
Not all the mains were as great as the starters, though. Some of them had the generic 'buffet' food taste.
Desserts!
Desserts are an essential part of a sinful Sunday brunch and there was a decent spread. Belgian chocolate pastry was gooey and really nice. The Mix Fruit Pastry and Swiss Roll were creamy soothing and nice, though nothing exceptional. The brownie unfortunately was hard and pretty much uneatable.
I ordered their baked lime cheesecake, as I'm a huge fan. It was nice but not that great. There wasn't enough lime flavour and it had hard sugar crystals in it which made the texture a bit weird. The actual cheesecake, though, was quite good, so there is potential, just fine tuning is required.
Verdict
Frankly, I think place is amazing and some of the food is really nice, but I personally wouldn't go back for the brunch. Their cocktails on the other hand were fantastic. I really want to go back and try their ala carte menu before I can give a full blown verdict about the food.
Another great addition to Rajbahadur Mills. Cinco. I visited this place for Sunday Brunch, we had an outdoor sitting. The outdoor sitting was perfect to chill and hangout with friends. I went inside just to check interiors and I was awestruck!!.
I heard this place serves really good Sangria
And Green Apple Sangria is my new Fav.
There Sunday Brunch Menu is really good.
1. Make your own Salad 🥗 - Tossed salad
2. Three types of Hummus- Green peas Hummus, Beetroot Hummus and Humnus
3. Pickled veggies
4. Lavash Bread and Assorted Bread
LIVE Counters:-
Nachos- you can add you toppings and sauces you want
Wok tossed Vegetables
Feta and Caramelized Onion Potato Pizza
Mushroom and Mutt Lasagna- it was layered really well with greeen veggies at base
Pasta Counter- Red sauce, pink sauce or white. These three were amazing
Main Course
Thai red curry Veg and Steamed Rice
The curry tastes really well.
Desserts
Belgium Chocolate pastry
Chocolate Brownie
Mixed Fruit Pastry
Swiss Roll
Make sure you ask them to warm Belgium Chocolate and Chocolate Brownie, it tastes sinful.
We also got chance to try their new range of Cocktails
My top picks :-
Jasmine Tea Cocktails- This is tea based cocktail. The taste was really mild and I loved it.
Oolong Tea Cocktails - Another tea based cocktail, served in beautiful tea cups.
Kiwi Mist - If you love Kiwi based drinks, this is your must go.
Smokey Pokey- Whatttaa Drink it was. The presentation 5/5. They infused orange based smog in a beaker with drink inside
Honey Bee Comb- well this is served in a Bee shaped beaker. The unique thing about this drink is one of the mixer is Turmeric Based Tequila
All in all it was a great experience.
Visited the place on a sat night . Group of 6. We visited the bar located inside. Nice place. Good DJ and amazing songs. Loved the food and the drinks . The staff is good and helpful. Nice place to hang out with Friends. Definitely recommend.
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