Ramee Resort, Hosur road

It was Friendship Day. We wanted to go to some new place to relish and relax. As desired we had a splendid experience in Ramee resort, Hosur road.

Ramee resort is a vast green landscape that has Swimming pool, snooker, party hall, sports room, Gym, art exibhition and many more. The greenery here has been maintained very well. The place is clean and green. It is a must visit for unwinding yourself from routine hassle.
Fortunately , for us, the resort had different plans for us. As soon as we checked in at noon , we were surprised with the events taking place there. Surprisingly this arrangement of events happens every Sunday for next few weeks. The evets like -

• Shooting the balloons.
• Mehandi
• Drums
• Pottery
• Parrot Astrology
• Fish beer bottle
• Tattoo and many more

 The buffet arranged here was just so amazing. It served us a wide variety of delicacies that included Barbeque, Chats, Gola, Cotton candy, Desserts and much more.
 The food tasted awesome. The roti and Naan and prepared on order and served hot.

Goodnews for men, there is a seperate hut for boose. Yes! My hubby and his friend were busy boozing, getting high and loosing it with a dive into the pool. The cycle repeated to their heart's content.

Evening again , you are served with Coffee and tea.

This is most definitely a good place for Corporate events, Family outings and getogethers.

Bangalore Pizza hut review

"The soft yeast , topped with hot cheese garnished with irresistable veggies and chicken,
To top it all the aroma of oregano and chilli flakes,
Itallinos, I'm hungry again!"

Pizza Hut

Location - Mantri Mall, Malleshwaram

It was after 7 long years, I met my long lost friend. It was late noon and both of us had lots to talk, share, gossip and were hungry like dogs. After juggling betweek Orion mall and Mantri mall, we decided on Mantri as it was nearer. As soon as we landed there, we rushed to the food court floor where you'll find a cluster of all big names of eatries and restaurants like any other mall.

Since we were tired, we couldn't order and, wait while one of us hunted for place to sit. And this was what drove us to the cozy , lighted interiors and comfortable sitting Pizza hut.

I have visited Pizza hut in more than 4-5 places till now (Sadhashivnagar, Dollar's colony, Jayanagar, Koramangala etc,.), but the interiors of none are as good or spacious as this one! I loved it.

Just as thought of ordering 1 Medium pizza, 1 Garlic bread and 2 Coke, my friend pointed at the weekday offer. Startled, the radius of my eyes were maximun when I looked at the combo.

Weekday combo

INR 99 - Regular pizza *(you can chose veg or non-veg out of the listed names)

1 Starter - Garlic bread or Potato wedges

1 Fresh lime soda

(There is a pasta combo also, but i don't remember)

Whoa!! We ordered 2 of this combo with different flavours, so can taste different pizzas too. Greedy eh? Nah! Optimum paisa vasool!!

It was yumm, hot and fast served. It was less crowded (may be one of the reason). The staff were patient, friendly and displayed good hospitality (obliged to click our pics at every pose we desired).

If you are 1 of those Pizza lovers , isn't your tongue dripping?

Sultans of spice Blue petals restaurant review

     The chairs are comfortably cushioned and the place can accomodate around 75 approx easily. A long table for 20-25 is also isolately located with a LCD tv playing some boring channels. Anyways who goes there to watch TV huh unless and untill you go there with your family where in women have scheduled addiction to one of those Ekta Kapoor soaps?

         Not always do we go to a restaurant for batting! (If you are a old, civilised and a decent person, 'Batting' is local youth slang for hogging). Sometimes we go there for some speciality, that once in blue moon, pulls us like a magnet. One such restaurant is 'Blue petals'. So what's the speciality? (If you've been a regular reader of my blog so far, you'd know I drive it like a television soap). Keep reading!!

Located in a viral hub, diagonally opposite to Jyothi nivas collage, it is not easy to ignore the restaurant. It is placed on the topmost floor. Not to worrly elavator will carry you there.

Its again one of those places where you can chose buffet @ noon and 'order from menu' for suppers.

The seating arrangement is good. The ambience makes you feel like you have entered some arabic palace. Hookas although not for use as far as I've seen, are stocked at the entrance for deco spice up.

The food is always yummm.... The variety is good. They make hot jalebis, right in front of you, if you are a sweet tooth like me, you'll love this place. The dessert menu is simply so awesome.

The finger bowl usually would consist of a lemon only, but here, they garnish it with flower petals too, but the petals are not blue. I have partially clarified to you why the name. Just kidding! (the petal part is true)

Yes here is the interesting part , you have been waiting for. After your last dessert, you usually tend to ask for bill or check. But here, do not forget! Ask for tequila pan shot. Yes, the pan spices(Gulkan, beetle leaf, mint, freshners) are squeezed and grated in mixer and presented in a shot pitcher.

One gulp! Aaaahhhhhh....

Personal favourite - I personally love the chicken shorba here. Yes the pan shot too!! Sluuurrpp...!!

Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) review

KFC rather Kentucky Fried chicken is a  huge and famous chicken chain, spread its root across all areas in all cities. I have been to more than 5 KFCs (Mantri mall, HSR layout, Rajajinagar, Forum mall, Sarjapur total mall, etc,.) across city. The food qulity and service is uniform all across.

Don't go by the name, they have localised the brand and introduced Veg too. You get to learn a new term here for burger, Zinger. For more help on pronounciation, I shall introduce a text to voice convertor soon. Just kidding!

The best part of the chain is , even if you enter the store at peak time, you'd be serviced with a minimal waiting period unlike other places. They have very good combo offers for both veg and non-veg. The newly introduced Krushers are a major attraction if you are a milkshake, mmoocktail person like me. These krushers come with a big pipe to accomodate the easy flow of big uncrushed pieces of chocolate pieces. The dessert section needs a neccessary updation, currently with only a choco lava pastry and few ice creams.

The chain keeps updating its recipe with newer ones. The recently introduces fierry chicken with indian spices and grilled chicked is a rage in my circle.

Initially the seating was really very boring with plastic chairs, offlate they have introduced the round cushion stands without back rest. Same as in MCD, I can say!

The combos and chicken  buckets are worth the deal when you go with an empty stomach. Another innovative and an attractive attempt is, you can chose your own pieces on a particular combos.

One of the most impressive attempt is there are times, they presonally take you for a tour into the cooking area to showcase the hygiene and maintanance. The chicken pieces are stored in bulk in cold temperature.

A special note of appreciation to the enthusiastic and ever-energitic (No deviation in service quality from morning to night) staff.

Umerkot restaurant review

Been to this place a couple of times. They provide Buffet only for lunch. The ambience is good, has some good ancient wall paintings. It can occupy not more than 40 approximately. The presentation of starters and other items although applauded, the variety is very less compared to other buffet providers in the area. It is just a deviation from Sony circle.
Umerkot is apparantly Akbar's birthplace, needless to say, they claim their serving and cuisine, the mughul style.

No.30, 80ft Main Road, 4th Block Koramangala, Bangalore- 560 034, Karnataka, India.
 Book your appointment here- 080-600-00-600

Per person - 350+tax

The seating area is good. The taste of food is indeed good but nothing to woof about. Very limited parking space inside. Both times, I have been here, I have parked my car roadside. If you go by those words, be ready to take owness of the risks. Check the parking date boards, else be ready to do some under the table from your car window ;)

Silver Metro restaurant review

Location - Madivala, Bangalore

Silver metro is my most frequented restaurant. It is located on the 4th floor of Total Mall, Madivala market. The concept of the restaurant is the feel of having variety of cuisines sitting inside a railway station, train. No! the train doesn't move or vibrate. It is just the ambience.

What I love the most about this place is the variety, plethora of dishes, both for veg and non-veg. You name it, you can find it there! But if you are prawns lover like me, that is the only dearth you'll find here! This is one place where even vegetarians would find same number of dishes as non-vegetarians.

Chapathis and chats are prepared on runtime right in front of you!

There are times when the cuisine is conceptualised too. Once all the dishes were Gujrathi - rare desserts like daal baati churma, some halwa and I don't remember the rest.

Apart from the long list of buffet opportunities, other mocktails are available too. There is bar too, you can't expect a review for the same from me as I have always been there during office times.

Taking an appointment is prime. Else you'll have to wait there amidst huge crowds like you stand in Majestic bustands.

Coffee drop, Bangalore

We had this habit of going away for long drives, on Friday nights post dinner. Few of you may be surprised reading this. Don't be! Majority of IT crowd stays nocturnal on Friday night. That is a well accepted tradition.
But there is hardly any place inside Bangalore that is open 24/7. However there are a few around the outskirts-

CCD in Maddur, on mysore road - 65kms approx

CCD in Tumkur road - 45 kms approx
Coffee drop in hosur road near attibele - 40kms approx
many more

The above places are the common ones most of you would already know. 3 months ago, I too thought it was limited to these CCD chains, when my friend introduced us to this new place, 'Coffee world'.

Coffee world is a very cozy and posh place that you would visit not when hungry, but when you are sleepless and would want to drive down nocturnal.

It was around 12.a.m when we landed there and the best part was there was no crowd. We spent a comfortable 90 minutes there. We four people ordered dishes out of the very limited menu list we were given. Sandwich, 2 French fries, 2 coffees and 1 papaya juice. Wanna know our bill? Read on....

The fries were very thick unlike the usual ones. Sandwich wa spiceless with just the regular tomatoes and onions placed inside. What else can we expect from a cook , who might have been woken awake from his deep slumber to prepare sandwiches for us. I understand, but that was not what we paid for!

The interiors of the place is very well planned and tastefully decorated with antique show pieces.

The restaurant is a very big one with a pool inside. The lawns are very well maintained too.

The place gets listed on the expensive side which you mostly pay for the ambience and silence. Thats it! Yes that time of night would anyways, anywhere be silent.

And yes!, I have nor forgotten, the bill was 2300 INR. That would have included our diesel charges too, if we had opted to go to any normal CCD in the outskirts. 

Eyecatcher - United Colors of Benetton

Eyecatcher of the month early 2012

Location - Forum mall, Koramangala, Bangalore.

Real or photoshop - I can't distinguish. Expressions are so realistic! What do you think?

Kalmane Koffee

This has been one of the easily accessible and simple, purpose serving coffee koffee stop. I have tried and tested tasted koffee from this joint both in Mantri and Garuda mall. Unlike CCD, they serve filter coffees too. A nice place to take our moms and dads generally wouldn't appreciate the cold coffees and capuchinos and stick to filter coffees.

The place is small and would'nt accomodate many customers at the same time like CCD. Sipping one coffee cup for an hour wouldn't work here. It is like CET coucelling if you have gone to one. You are done, you should be moving. Initially it was self-service, but recently when I was standing like a lamppost at the counter, the SA requested me to sit and I would be serviced at the table.

Taste of coffees incline mostly with South indian home made coffees. I usually visit this place to order a coffee when I am alone in the mall and waiting for a friend, to potray myself a busy person who utilizes even waiting period as a coffee break ;).