Who does not want a good place that serves nice food (non-veg included) along with drinks amd that too at ecnomical rates, its an icing on the cake if such a place is close to ones home. Last Friday I had taken my pals out to one such place...
Name of the place: Satkar
Location: Hanuman Road (WE highway end), Vile Parle.
The beauty of this place is in its simplicity, its just like a no frills airline. I.e. the needed stuff is provided at apt cost. Its serves veg/non veg food from Punjabi and chinese cusines and it has a good bar.
Mind you no frills seriously!!! There are no complimentary snacks with the drinks, you would get what you order and it would be added on to your bill. Yet this place is highly econimical as the rates of all ietms are not jacked up!
The starters are very delicious. One should not miss the corn shallow fried in butter. On the chinese side the speciality is veg/chicken crispy, on the punjabi side the starters to order are paneer/chicken tikka and chicken tandoori. The main course is also very delicious but I would recommend only punjabi as I personally did not like the chinese main course as it lacks variety.
Primary draw back of this place is that the air conditioned section is quite small and on busy (saturday) nights there could be some wait time.
Showing posts with label Mumbai. Show all posts
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Monday, September 1, 2008
Friday, August 29, 2008
Restaurants in Mumbai - Sam's Kitchen
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.
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, July 11, 2008
Restaurants in Mumbai - Rama Krishna
Hi,
Am quite a foodie myself, thought it would be appropriate to share my experiences at various restaurants/food joints in Mumbai. This is the first.
Name: hotel Rama Krishna
Location: Opposite the railway station, Vile Parle (EAST). Vile Parle is a suburb on Mumbai' western railway.
Why Rama Krishna first??? Because it my most visited food joint. This place has two floors, the ground floor is non-ac and gives you the complete Udipi feeling. the first floor is air conditioned and quite suave...
South Indian and Punjabi foods are the ones primarily served here. Since this place has an Udipi origin the south Indian food is very tasty and yet very standardised. the taste of the sambar has not changed since I started going there (more than 15 years back). Am sure their standardisation of taste would beat big Mac.
Punjabi food is also quite good and standardised but the taste and menu contents are similar to most other places.
The thing that I dislike about this place (specially the ground floor) is the haste with which everything gets done. Before you take your seat, some guy would have put down glasses of water and mind you they would be exactly the same in number as the guests to be seated. The waiter would come and place the menu in your hand and expect you to order instantly. The food would arrive to your table within 3-4 minutes. When you are having your last few bites the waiter would arive and nag you into ordering chai/coffee/colddrinks...if you say no, you would have the bill on your table within a minute.
This is a good place if you are in a hurry and a very bad place for people who wish to catch up with friends over a meal.
All in all I like the place. Hope you visit, do eat the mysore masala dosa and wada sambar in south Indian and Chole Bhatoore from the Punjabi cuisine.
Am quite a foodie myself, thought it would be appropriate to share my experiences at various restaurants/food joints in Mumbai. This is the first.
Name: hotel Rama Krishna
Location: Opposite the railway station, Vile Parle (EAST). Vile Parle is a suburb on Mumbai' western railway.
Why Rama Krishna first??? Because it my most visited food joint. This place has two floors, the ground floor is non-ac and gives you the complete Udipi feeling. the first floor is air conditioned and quite suave...
South Indian and Punjabi foods are the ones primarily served here. Since this place has an Udipi origin the south Indian food is very tasty and yet very standardised. the taste of the sambar has not changed since I started going there (more than 15 years back). Am sure their standardisation of taste would beat big Mac.
Punjabi food is also quite good and standardised but the taste and menu contents are similar to most other places.
The thing that I dislike about this place (specially the ground floor) is the haste with which everything gets done. Before you take your seat, some guy would have put down glasses of water and mind you they would be exactly the same in number as the guests to be seated. The waiter would come and place the menu in your hand and expect you to order instantly. The food would arrive to your table within 3-4 minutes. When you are having your last few bites the waiter would arive and nag you into ordering chai/coffee/colddrinks...if you say no, you would have the bill on your table within a minute.
This is a good place if you are in a hurry and a very bad place for people who wish to catch up with friends over a meal.
All in all I like the place. Hope you visit, do eat the mysore masala dosa and wada sambar in south Indian and Chole Bhatoore from the Punjabi cuisine.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Mumbaikars
While the mumbaikars have the knack of coming through difficult situations they also several bad traits. One of them is keeping the city unclean. There are several slogans/proverbs likes of Cleanliness is next to godliness; Clean Mumbai, Green Mumbai which absolutely make no sense to mumbaikars.
Slogan of Mumbai should be as under:
"We mumbaikars take it upon us to make sure that all corners in all public places are dirtied red by spitting gutkha, it is our responsibility to throw waste papers, gutkha wrappers and biscuit wrappers out of running trains, taxis, cars and buses. It is imperative that we open the door of our air conditioned car at all traffic signals to spit gutkha on the road"
Mumbaikars, look at what's happening to our city, we have dirtied all public places by plastic litter and dirt. Now that the rains have begun, we cannot miss the stench that this 'Kachra' is creating. We would not be able to survive like this! one day the 'kachra' is going to come into our houses and offices and choke us to our deaths; and righty so, unless we change the way we treat public places and our city in general. Couple of years back this kachra caused immense flooding in the city.
New Local trains were launched in Mumbai recently, nicely coloured in while and light purple; we made it a point to change the colour near the doors and under the windows to red within a weeks time (by spitting gutkha).
This is not done!!!Do we also do this at home???
We mumbaikars should stand up for the cleanliness of the city including the public places.
From today I have decided to boo any person spitting at public places or throwing dirt or answering natures calls on walls. I would also try to direct them to the nearest dustbin/loo.
Urge all to join me in this drive and keep our home, i.e. the city, clean.
P.s. Gutkha is a chewable mixture mainly containing tobacco, which has to be chewed and then spit as it is not potable...Kachra in local language means waste.
Slogan of Mumbai should be as under:
"We mumbaikars take it upon us to make sure that all corners in all public places are dirtied red by spitting gutkha, it is our responsibility to throw waste papers, gutkha wrappers and biscuit wrappers out of running trains, taxis, cars and buses. It is imperative that we open the door of our air conditioned car at all traffic signals to spit gutkha on the road"
Mumbaikars, look at what's happening to our city, we have dirtied all public places by plastic litter and dirt. Now that the rains have begun, we cannot miss the stench that this 'Kachra' is creating. We would not be able to survive like this! one day the 'kachra' is going to come into our houses and offices and choke us to our deaths; and righty so, unless we change the way we treat public places and our city in general. Couple of years back this kachra caused immense flooding in the city.
New Local trains were launched in Mumbai recently, nicely coloured in while and light purple; we made it a point to change the colour near the doors and under the windows to red within a weeks time (by spitting gutkha).
This is not done!!!Do we also do this at home???
We mumbaikars should stand up for the cleanliness of the city including the public places.
From today I have decided to boo any person spitting at public places or throwing dirt or answering natures calls on walls. I would also try to direct them to the nearest dustbin/loo.
Urge all to join me in this drive and keep our home, i.e. the city, clean.
P.s. Gutkha is a chewable mixture mainly containing tobacco, which has to be chewed and then spit as it is not potable...Kachra in local language means waste.
Monday, June 9, 2008
heavy rains in Mumbai
Heavy rains have hit Mumbai, quite sooner than expected...Accompanied by gusty wind blowing at 20-25 kms per hour. Something which mumbaikars have experienced rarely and possibly never on the 3rd day of the monsoons. Year by year the climate is getting harsher...winters have got colder, summers are hotter and monsoons are more fierce...
Worry is a repeat of what happened on 26th July 2005 when the city experienced the highest downpour in 100 years. While the municipal corporation claims to be 100% ready for the monsoons, the roads and the drains do not indicate the same. There are huge pot holes on roads...water clogging on the roads due to level differences and clogged drains. Time will tell how the municipal corporation would fare in this years monsoon exam...
People of Mumbai have the knack of getting ahead of the most difficult of situations in a very short span of time. 2005 it was the flooding on 26th July, on 28th July lives were back on track...Thats what I like the most about this city and hence would love to stay here all my life inspite of the potholes, clogged drains, heavy traffic, pollution, population etc...
Hats off to Mumbai and the spirit of mumbaikars...
Also this an excellent time to sit in a lounge chair reading a book with kanda bhaji (Onion pakoda) and adrak wali chai (tea flavoured with ginger)...Hope I would be able to enjoy that today...
Worry is a repeat of what happened on 26th July 2005 when the city experienced the highest downpour in 100 years. While the municipal corporation claims to be 100% ready for the monsoons, the roads and the drains do not indicate the same. There are huge pot holes on roads...water clogging on the roads due to level differences and clogged drains. Time will tell how the municipal corporation would fare in this years monsoon exam...
People of Mumbai have the knack of getting ahead of the most difficult of situations in a very short span of time. 2005 it was the flooding on 26th July, on 28th July lives were back on track...Thats what I like the most about this city and hence would love to stay here all my life inspite of the potholes, clogged drains, heavy traffic, pollution, population etc...
Hats off to Mumbai and the spirit of mumbaikars...
Also this an excellent time to sit in a lounge chair reading a book with kanda bhaji (Onion pakoda) and adrak wali chai (tea flavoured with ginger)...Hope I would be able to enjoy that today...
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