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.
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.
Thursday, July 10, 2008
My Son
Writing after a month....
last week end my son accompanied me to the temple...he does accompany me some times, so what was different last time?
At the entrance of the temple there is a shoe stand having pigeon holes to place shoes prior to entering. Normally I place my shoes on the rack and my son places his pair on top of my pair....This time around it was different, he placed his pair in a different pigeon hole....
One side of my brain told me that this meant nothing, just that he placed it in the pigeon hole closest to him...the other side refused to accept this as an explanation....my heart agreed with the latter...
I am really happy that my son (2 year 9 months old) has started to create his own identity, he has started believing that he is a separate person and needs to have his own...Also very surprisingly it saddens me that this is his first step away from me...As they say the birds grow and fly out of the nest and to my heart this felt as though the first step towards flying away...
Happy Sad combo experience indeed...
last week end my son accompanied me to the temple...he does accompany me some times, so what was different last time?
At the entrance of the temple there is a shoe stand having pigeon holes to place shoes prior to entering. Normally I place my shoes on the rack and my son places his pair on top of my pair....This time around it was different, he placed his pair in a different pigeon hole....
One side of my brain told me that this meant nothing, just that he placed it in the pigeon hole closest to him...the other side refused to accept this as an explanation....my heart agreed with the latter...
I am really happy that my son (2 year 9 months old) has started to create his own identity, he has started believing that he is a separate person and needs to have his own...Also very surprisingly it saddens me that this is his first step away from me...As they say the birds grow and fly out of the nest and to my heart this felt as though the first step towards flying away...
Happy Sad combo experience indeed...
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