Big Daddy Casino, an offshore casino with 'no-limits' tables commenced operations since early May 2019. With international games aboard, the casino ship believes in providing round-the-clock unique F&B experiences with live entertainment setting the experience a notch higher. Akshay Nayak met with the Chef Shubham Dhar, corporate executive chef, Big Daddy Casino to learn about the all-round experience in the culinary space he brings along with him to provide the guests aboard the ship with impeccable gastronomical experiences from across the world
The luxury ship, built in 1995 with imported furnishing and interiors, will house 110 tables in an area of around 50,000 sq ft spread over three decks. All the national and internationally played games such as Indian Flush to games such as American Roulette, Black Jack, etc., and various variants of Poker will be available for avid gamers. It also houses a multi-cuisine restaurant offering the best of local and global cuisines, a bar, a live barbeque area on the topmost deck, a sundeck and a variety of entertainment programmes including national and international acts to cater to its visitors.
At Big Daddy Casino, Chef Dhar heads the all-day restaurant Aish-O-Rum. Located on the topmost covered deck of the ship, it boasts of more than 210 covers. The restaurant has a 24feet-long bar, where you can sip away to your choice of alcoholic/non-alcoholic beverages from 7 pm to 12.30 am during weekdays and an hour extra during weekends starting Friday. Primarily being a buffet restaurant, dinner is served from 9 pm to 1 am during weekdays & an hour extra during weekends. By 7 pm the restaurant opens its Live Chaat counter which has a mouth-watering range of street-styled chaats including paani puri to dahi bhalla, ragda chaat, sev puri, etc. The buffet menu is a mix of three cuisines, mainly revolving around Indian cuisine, European cuisine and pan Asian - majorly Thai and Chinese. The menu consists of soups, compound salads, mains and a delightful mix of desserts. Vegetarian & non-vegetarian selections are displayed separately. Entertainment by various artists again starts by 8 pm on the restaurant stage. You can see European dancers, Indian singers, magicians doing their stints, from Bollywood entertainment to rock bands.
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