Pizza Pizza Express, the UK-based Italian food chain, has opened its second outlet in India and also the second in Delhi at the most happening shopping mall in the Capital, Ansal's Plaza. Sandwiched between Geffory's and The Buck Stops Here (both new to Delhi, too), Pizza Pizza Express is trying to garner more customers by being the family restaurant in this mall. It offers a colourful, well-lit ambience and doesn't have any hang-ups about diners in shorts or kids running around the place.

It offers a menu that is largely pizza. Senior company spokesperson Kaushik Roy says the pizzas are all thin-crusted, hand-tossed and bigger in size than in any other pizza eatery. Plus, it has some new starters and a spicy chicken pizza, which is very good.

Pizza Pizza Express has also added a separate coffee and dessert menu to cash in on the shoppers floating around the complex. Shoppers' Stop is the biggest crowd puller in the complex, with 17,000 visitors during the weekends. With so many people moving around, many are bound to look for a bite to eat. The coffee and dessert menu has been aimed at this crowd. Roy promises the most authentic coffee made by trained staff. The new Pizza Pizza Express outlet is yet to get a liquor licence, but hopes to get one soon. It already has a band playing at night.

The other new restaurant is in Green Park's Uphaar shopping complex. Walk-In Cafe has been started by Rajiv Gupta, who is basically a computer dealer. He has a computer shop selling HP and Compaq PCs in the basement, but his love for food was so intense that he decided to start his own restaurant. Gupta decided he did not want a place that served just one cuisine, and opted instead for a restaurant that has an array of items ranging from burgers and sandwiches to Tandoori Chicken and even the hugely popular momos. Not satisfied with fast food, Gupta has added a proper curry-and-roti menu too for lunch and dinner.

The Kathi Kababs were good, as was the Tandoori Chicken meal, but the Momos fell a little short of expectations.

Walk-in Cafe strives to be the restaurant that will serve whatever one feels like eating. "Each and every member of the family should be able to order the kind of food they want," says Gupta. The restaurant has just 25 covers, but if Gupta succeeds in his please-all policy, he will add more covers.

Walk-in Cafe has a colourful yellow decor and the food here is reasonably priced. A good place to have a quick family meal.

Vidya Deshpande