Game-For-Life?

So, well, I’ve been to all the Taj properties in Mumbai and this one too, but never bothered to try out the Deli here. Finally did a working lunch here, and found out how the standards do not match Taj anywhere else.
The nice tucked away location which many people don’t know about, gets you interested. you do have a choice of being seated inside or outside, and outside it is for us. The Waiter takes an amusing amount of time to come and take an order, and then acts fidgety as if not knowing what to do next there
Over to the food. They do know how to make very good Orange Juice, fresh and not canned! They also know how to make good scrambled eggs I say. So much for breakfast. At Lunchtime, we went about with some Pasta . My regular Arabiatta sauce in Penne Pasta with Ham. Tasted lovely here They’d of course made a liberal helping of herbs in it.
I say I like the place, except that the service is not Taj quality. Just putting up a few people in waistband coats does not make them Taj hospitality. They got to be much better than that! Hence, I take back 1 star and give them just 3 on 5!!

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So, well, I was planning a coffee with a friend and we landed up at “United Coffee House” which is a full fledged Restaurant in the heart of CP. The place has a wonderful old world charm about it and plays songs from the 90s mostly, when i was a teenager and used to love Backstreet Boys and ricky Martin! The patrons were however families and usually on theother side of 35-40 it seems, as we found quite some senior citizens there !!!

So now to the grub. We wanted to call for some Alcohol and a plate of starters. They seemed to have a varied and long list of Wines, some which I had never even heard of. However my friend did inform me that the wines were good! I wanted to call for a beer, and they did not have a wide variety of beer though. They had a draught beer called Golden Eagle from the yesteryears! And for pints, they only had Heineken I guess, and Tiger. So Tiger beer was called for! Peanuts were served free of cost.

Next up, Grub included a Non Veg Kebab Platter which was big and huge! the same was difficult to finish between the both of us

The waiters were nice to us, and had a courteous look about them. The place believes in a Candle Light concept still, and they dimmed the lights and brought about candles at 7 pm I guess If you wanna go out for a nice romantic dinner, then this is the place to be!

Enjoy your time at United Coffee House !!!

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Ok, well, I have been a fan of the Mumbai outlets for a very very long time. And I knew they opened up in Bengaluru, but I was surprised to find them in Gurgaon I was catching up with a friend after a very long time in Gurgaon, and it was an apt place to look out for to settle in, have an experiential meal and chatter up!

The location was slightly hard to find, because it is not on the main Mehrauli Gurgaon Road and tucked away into a sidelane without any markers on the main road directing towards it. But once you make you way, you are in bliss heaven.

We made it there on Xmas day. The whole place was full of christmas cheer, people catching up on a “kebabish” Christmas Brunch and the works…. The place had a nice decor with 2 floors, a basement floor and a mezz floor on top of that. We went into the basement floor, and for a walkin on a hol, we got a nice quick response.

Going on, my lunch partner was not very hungry and got a very courteous explanation from the staff about the Barbeque Nation buffet concept. They also informed us about complimentary drinks for the day - a slew of drinks and one drink per buffet pax was free. The food is a good 500 bucks per pax wth unlimited buffet and starters…Both of us, then walked into the food with our eyes open! They have the flag which u can turn down to stop them from serving u any more starters.

Going over the list of the servings of day, they served us some of the kebabs on the nice grill setup in the middle of the table (also doubling up as an Angeethi (heater) for my friend to keepp herself warm!) and some directly into our plates. The helpings were generous, and I love all the food there always anyways. When I asked for a Veg platter for the day, they replaced my black plate with Green to signal that I should not be served anything non-veggie even by mistake. Kudos for the little things you do to ensure people have a good time

Well, there were 14kinda starters served, so i cannot remember all the names, right? They were all good. In the food, since we were already stuffed on starters, we had some bites of the food. I took some chana and laccha parantha and some salads, and then some desserts… which were kind of getting cold as maybe they were wrapping up for the afternoon!

overall a great experience, very roomy and nice. And at the end of it all, they gave us a christmas plum cake because they were celebrating christmas. i still wait reviews from my friend and the family as to how the cake was, but it looked delicious!

Would love to come back some more!

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ok, so for the first time in eight months i am back on the blogosphere. It is 1045 pm approx and I just landed up in the queue to meet Lalbaghcha Raja, the most famous of the Ganpati mandals in Mumbai.

on my way here, i realised a few humbling things in life. The most queer of them forms the caption of this blogpost… Ganpati season is when mumbai meets. I’ve been in this city of Mumbai about four years now, and i’ve seen this year on year and slowly becoming a part of it..in ganpati season, mumbai turns into one big harmonious community (it always was, but this part of the year…it shows). Everyone has a ganpati bappa at their home or at someone close to their’s home. People visit each other, perhaps more than they do in the diwali season, and they all make merry. Its a feast, with mumbai roaring to the auspiscious chants of “Ganpati bappa Morya”…

i walked about 1/2 an hour from the Lower Parel station to join at the end of the queue, and will spend most of the night here. And there are several ahead of me, waiting it out for the entire night just to worship the God. So the rich and poor all come together here….thats the second realisation over the years, that Ganpati bappa is a great equaliser. Everyone waits to meet him here and greet him, no exceptions

The third realisation is the economic aspect of the festivity. I am right now standing at perhaps one of the biggest and most famous pandals in mumbai. A newspaper trivia said that there were perhaps more than 1500 pandals in the city itself. All over maharashtra look around, and you’d perhaps see much more of them. So this is seasonal income for the artisans, the florists, the electricians, the security industry and so on and so forth. Let me try and figure out a number from somewhere and add that for your reference here later…but you do realise that by the grace of Ganesha, the resident god of Mumbai, there is a whole festive economy which feeds millions not just that, overnight, there turn up hundreds of roadside food and beverage stalls selling everything from the famour Vada pao to the filling Pav Bhaji to tonnes of other gastronomic delights. All that, to ensure while you are Queing up to meet the Gods, you are tanked up to see through the day.

Seeing the faith in Lord Ganesha, one thing i am convinced with is that India is a land of believers, where faith is not lost. If we could all combine our faith into one big melting pot and concentrate on making ‘India Shining’ well, is a different thought altogether.

Here is three cheers to the spirit of Mumbai…”Ganpati bappa morya, mangal murti morya…agley varshi jaldi aaaaaa”

PS: The ardous task of getting to see the God was fulfilled at about 9 in the morning when I finally got access to the main area right in front of the idol for a minute. It was gigantic, and smilin at you. The wait was worth it…… this post is not capitalised too much or may have spelling errors, but it was posted from my e90 … so excuse the same!