Foodie Weekend

Exams taking a toll the last week and long unending hours of study and less sleep, called for a great celebration this weekend to mark the end of it and getting back in to the exploration of Bangalore.
With the exams ending on saturday, it really meant that a great lunch would indeed make it special to start off. For this special lunch i landed up in a great northern cuisine style place called Mast Kalandar at Brigade Road.

Mast kalandar is set up on the roof top with cool breeze making u still temptingly wait for the hot and delicious flavor of the northern spices added to the food. It has limited set of items, but such that fulfills everyone's desire and the taste. With a range of combos consisting of Rajasthani rotis and sabzi, to pure north indian food to the biriyani platter, it makes the meal not only enjoying but also colorful. With a starter such a dahi puri and a welcome drink of Shikanji (Lime juice), which is the basic drink that one could ask for, still makes it the best. A full meal with essential requirements well made, hygienic conditions and great ambience is a definite place to visit with friends and family. For details visit http://bangalore.hungryzone.com/index.php/restaurant/Mast-Kalandar-Church-Street/5139/North-Indian-Food-in-Combos/church-street

Sunday marked the start from the movie Kurbaan and then the flavor of South Indian meal for lunch to linger on the tongue. With a desperate wish to eat the south indian meals, a place called Krishna Cafe attracted us. Its placed in Koramangala, a place with buzz and usual humming around. Its a very usual set up of a restaurant, served rice and other varients like poriyal, sambar, vada, applam, payasam, curd, buttermilk etc. on the banana leaf and u can keep asking for more and more to satisfy your hunger till u end up finging no place to put in another bite at very reasonable price. good quality food and efficient service from the staff states its uniqueness.

Evening was more delighting with dinner at an exquisite restaurant 'Jalpaan'. Situated opposite to Nethradhama, kanakpura road, it establishes itself on the higher end. Expensive on the whole it serves a range of north indian dishes which makes us think as to how to go on with ordering the food, but ends up in a great taste. Being Sunday and huge crowds at the hotel makes people wait for atleast an hour, which really makes lose patience if accompanied with children and huge storm of hunger in each one's stomach knocking for food. The service was slow, but the feel good factor was added by the receptionist who kept smiling though people kept raging their fire on her. Well thats what they claim to stand for- Service with a smile. With a little more improvement in the efficiency of the staff, it would make it more of happy experience than just a ere visit.

Firangi Paani/ Sahib Sindh Sultan

With an ongoing journey to explore all places in and around Bangalore, I landed up at a finest restaurant named Sahib Sindh Sultan at the Forum Mall in Bangalore. With its exceptional and mind dangling ambience and the great artistic touch given to the shades of the place, it really soothes each one's soul. It gives the feel of the perfect romantic atmosphere to spend best time with your loved ones.

Set up with the look and remembrance around the time when the sultans ruled over India, the restaurant by the BJN group, is designed in such a way that one would feel having reached to those times. Each customer is treated being like a sultan with the grace and pleasant meal served on. From the clothes designed for the waiters and manager, who actually has worn a uniform of a security personnel, the music of olden times, the tone of engines heard every now and then, to the specially designed coach. It would really amaze one as to how much of artistic work has gone into designing such a restaurant.

The food served is another unique feature or one can call it their USP. With a complimentary stater in the form of soup sticks and tempting side dishes would make one take a guess instantly as to how the entire course of meal would be. The names of the dishes themselves portray how royal and rich them seem to be. Their welcome drinks include rich flavors of saffron and sandalwood. Th quantity served is proportionate to the huge hunger one would carry to this place. Each bite would make one feel the real taste of the spices and varieties that the Sultans enjoyed as a part of their everyday meal. With such a good ambience around, one would feel like asking for a minute more, any number of times before leaving this place.

A very special moment celebrated here would add more happiness and memories is definitely certified. The smiles carried on by each of the staff member makes it still more pleasant and alluring. A little on the expensive side, but a place that offers one so many things under one roof is definitely worth the pay. A place must to visit when in Bangalore.
For more details you can visit http://bangalore.hungryzone.com/index.php/restaurant/Sahib-Sindh-Sultan/16/North-Indian/koramangala

Shopaholics

A mystery lingers around my mind when the very nature of shopaholics surrounds my thoughts. Shopaholics in general are considered people who have enormous time and hard currency(both notes and plastic card considered) to spend around satisfying all their needs, actually above their needs at any particular time. When such people do not mind spending money for all the essential( which only they consider to be), why dont they spend on things which are truly essential considered by the total mass.

Here are a few facts which lead me to think about this:

• Shopaholics spent huge amounts on clothes, accessories( for their mobiles too) but they always have only single digit balance in their mobile phones.
• These people roam around to various places in bus, not willing to spend for the auto fare.
• These people spend thousands of rupees for a branded stuff, but bargain for every rupee at a local store.
  

These are just few of the instances noted by me. I wonder how people cannot afford to recharge their mobiles which costs way less than their single showroom purchase bills. All of u reading this blog could definitely help in resolving this mystery.

Melting Moments..

Memories are best friends is a belief which is truly being experienced. As each day passes on every little thought becomes a memory, whether good or bad, they do have a hidden meaning in each of them. With the two phases of fun already portrayed in the previous blogs, the next set came in as meeting friends who were long known but could not get a opportunity to meet them. Finally it came on a Sunday, and the very own Forum mall set the perfect platform to roam around.

This meet made me know my friends better and also to get to know what they essentially thought of me. It all came in a positive note and healthily( as i had two glasses of juice, really needed!!!) Time moved on to bring in more surprises in the future week. Staying back with the cousins as we used to in our childhood days.

The times of being children are most remembered thinking of the numerous mischievous acts done and also having lotttttt of time available to spend with each other. Four classes played Uno for whole noon, late night outing for an ice cream, driving through faster to reach home before it starts raining heavily and a sigh of relief noting we were not that late.

This part of fun extended to another day of shopping on the most poplulous areas in Bangalore- The Commercial Street and Brigade Road, with not so much hopping as such, but happiness of having spent time with each other. Back home in the evening with another round of we cousins outing to have special 'Akki Roti'. Heavy dinner followed by Ice cream, a walk for 2 kms, on the way a bite of pani puri, n having fun seeing one of my cousin dying hard to fight with the spicy chilli she chewed thinking it to be potato. Ah.. It was like one of the most beautiful evening spent after years with cousins like this.

These moments do not occur so usually now, as each one of us are equally busy in our own fields of study. Hence these memories melt into each one of our hearts to be cherished forever.