"Three of a Kind"
Bayleaf, with an open-kitchen layout and brightly modern menu.

It's an unlikely look for an eating hub but four or five busy eateries keep this shopping plaza buzzing most days and, in some cases, after office hours as well. Even more unlikely, perhaps, is this drab building's long-time connection with modern Indian food. First there was the colourfully contemporary Nilgiri's, now in St Leonards. Now there's Bayleaf, with an open-kitchen layout and brightly modern menu. It's all about lighter-than-usual regional fare and entree-sized tastes such as miniature, southern-inspired dosa (lentil and rice flour pancakes with a spiced potato filling) or fluffier than average vadai. Usually a dense, ground lentil doughnut, here they are fritters of mashed potato flecked with nutty pulses and served with a thick tomato chutney. Add a few sweet pink chunks of just-set ocean trout with a herby, pungent ajowain-seed crust to your order and you're doing Indian tapas.

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