I am habituated to having tea while I smoke, One of these days my colleague and myself went down to have fags with some nice cutting chai (half cup tea at a road side stall is called cutting). Unfortunately our regular chai (tea) stall was closed.
We wandered a bit further and came to a place where we saw a tea kettle. We asked the guy there to get us chai...Walla!!! one of the most shocking things in my life happened...he asked me what kind of tea I wanted. To add to my surprise, he got a menu card with one full page dedicated to tea. There was cutting chai, masala chai, adrakwala chai, pudina wala chai, iced tea, lemon tea.....list of one page. Also the chai was served nicely in a earthen pot which just added to our delight...
Name of the place: Sam's Kitchen
Location: Opposite the railway station, Vashi. Vashi is a major station on Mumbai' harbour line railway.
There is more to this place than tea. I was impressed and took my lunch buddies there for tea. We discovered that the menu had more interesting stuff in the Indian food and chinese section. We decided to go there for lunch. the menu is well organised, the food items are not many but are well selected. In the Indian punjabi section you would find only 7-8 types of subjis, but all are unique. There are parothas stuffings of which can be customised. Cold drinks had quite rarely available delicacies like Piyush, buterscotch lassi, chocalate lassi.
While the food taste was good the presentation was even better. the parothas were neatly cut and presented in earthen plates with two small earthen bowls filled with sweet curd and ketchup as accompaniments. the lassi was served chilled in nice shapely glasses. All in all it seemed as a very good concept restuarant which focussed on serving good stuff but was not inclined to have menu that ran for pages at a stretch. nice place...
Our two complaints about the place were the lack of fans and that the quantity served was on the lower side.
Friday, August 29, 2008
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