The Blue Frog is the most happening nightspot on the city’s landscape since it started not too long ago. A smaller segment, the ones who have music running in their blood know that it is the place to go to catch quality live musical performances six nights a week. And a niche, but growing number know that Blue Frog is a 360 degree sensory experience encompassing the Club, of course, but also four state-of-the-art recording studios, a production company, record label, fine dining and now, arguably the longest and most unique brunch in town!

The genesis for Blue Frog came from five people with varied career backgrounds, but with a shared sentiment that music can shape the entertainment canvas if it is approached the right way, marketed efficiently and given a platform to show it’s diversity. Couple that with a conscious move away from mainstream forms of music (read Bollywood), and package it with a creative culinary experience and you have the tools to provide music lovers, music professionals and lovers of good food an all-encompassing audio-visual-gastronomical romp.

Blue Frog has, in its nine months of existence, gone from opening the Club, to launching the record label, studios and production company and, now, in it’s latest avatar – The Blue Frog Brunch.

The atmosphere at the brunch is significantly different than it is at night, The screens of original north light window are glided away, allowing the happy sunlight to stream in unfettered and cast a jolly glow on the floral centerpieces. While at night the Club has an otherworldly charm with it’s glowing pod lights and surreal visuals on the video screens, the ambience during the day is very much like a comfortable family parlour (albeit a large one!), where one can have their privacy and intimacy in the pods, but also wander around and mingle freely with other guests.

Stretching languidly over 5 hours, the brunch is nothing short of decadent. With 78 dishes to choose from you would need many Sundays to sample everything on offer. The salad buffet leaves you spoilt for choice with an array of cold meat platters, exotic cheeses, pate de foie gras, mousses, quiches, pasta, seafood and vegetable salads. With soups and fresh-from-the-oven, baked breads and house dips.

Moving into breakfast, the selection is equally mind-boggling. Eggs to order; and pancakes, waffles and French toast in many fruity options. As you settle into a soporific state, the steward gently reminds you that you still have the main course to mull over and digest and you are presented with a staggering choice of grills and pastas. The open bar with all kinds of cocktails, champagne cocktails, martinis and fruit juices ensures that any calorie counting you may have aspired towards is but a pipe dream.

The menu is meticulously prepared each week by Chef Mrigank who makes sure that no two brunches will ever be the same. The grill platter with it’s delectable lamb, beef, chicken, fish and prawn selections never gets monotonous as the preparation, marinades and accompaniments change each week. It seems that Mrigank outdoes himself each time, with a seemingly endless repertoire of salads and pastas, not to mention a dessert table groaning under the weight of house prepared delicacies like the tiramisu in a waffle cone, crème brulee a la Blue Frog, mousses, cheese cakes and fruit platters to mention just a few.

This is Blue Frog at the end of the day so music can never be factored out of the equation. The only brunch in town with live music and dancing, all those who do choose to be calorie conscious can get a good workout with the lively jazz, swing and funk bands that bring you out of a semi-conscious state and into a swing-your-partner-round-your-head groove.

The best part is that no one asks you to leave once four o’clock chimes. The brunch bar closes, but the paid bar remains open for business so you can continue to enjoy your cocktails at bar rates and watch the evening band warm up at their sound check. As the sun sets, the Frog transforms into it’s night garb; the screens come down, the flowers give way to the glow of the pod lights and the evening crowd starts coming in often bemused at the site of Bermuda shorts-clad remnants of the day’s festivities.

Sundays are best spent with friends, family and loved ones and the brunch at the Frog is a perfect way to get the kids, grandkids, parents, grandparents, husbands, wives and significant others to get together under one roof. In fact the management encourages all kinds of family activities. A variety of board games like Monopoly, Scrabble, Jenga and Chess are available and you can while away the hours knowing no one is breathing down your neck to make way for another party. The day belongs entirely to you. If you want to dance alone like a drunken uncle at a family wedding or with your five year old niece trodding on your floaters, you can and no one will blink an eye because they’ll all be right there on the dance floor with you. So don’t Pass Go, take a Chance and come to the Frog for a game the whole family can play. The Blue Frog brunch!

The brunch costs Rs.2000 per head inclusive of taxes and is an all you care to eat affair. This includes an unlimited open bar (IMFL).

Children under 12 are Rs.1000 per head inclusive of taxes.