Monday, January 29, 2007

Janaseva Dugdhlaya and others

Janaseva Dugdhlaya at Laxmi Road, we have visited n number of times for just for Kharwas, only to find out “NOT AVAILABLE TODAY”. Well, doesn’t matter. We can still attack Sabudana Vada, Sabudana Khichdi with curd, Tikhat Mithacha Sanjya, condition is it's to be backed up by Masala Milk.

We also do visit Badshaha at Tilak Road for Misal which is very tasty. Once we tried Misal at Bedekar (I forgot Hotels’ name), but lost further interest. We reached there in the early afternoon only to find out announcement that “Misal Sampali” (Finished or out of stock). The owner was offended when I passed remark saying “ Punekars take pride in announcing the word "finished".

Before I bought home in Pune, we were used to stay in Hotels at Apte Road.

For breakfast, quite a few times we used to visit Shivsagar just for Neer Dosa, or sometimes used to fill our stomach with water watering Veg.Pattice from Santosh Bakery.

For lunch, most of time we kept on going to Atithi Dinning Hall, neat and clean, Reasonable rates, good Marathi bhojan specially Pithale Bhakar and Curd and not to mention koshimbir.

Five/six times we visited Asha Dinning Hall at Apte Road, equally good, but as my wife did not prefer the karwari taste we dropped it from our list Few years back, twice we made it a point to go for Thali at Shreyas, Apte Road during Ganapati Festival and thereafter never even thought of visiting it again.

We also will never visit Girija (famous for Bharli Vangi, Bhakari) at Karve Road and at Sinhagad Road again. We did not like the decor and the food itself. Few years back we do visited Suvarna Rekha Dinning Hall at Prabhat Road but found nothing exciting.

During last summer, we visited Mathura, extremely famous for authenticate maharastian dishes ?????. (As per their claim). We ordered for Olya kajuchi Usal (wet cashew nut) only to found out in front of us, a dish with some sort of Punjabi style preparation. What a let down. Head Cook from the restaurant should make a trip to Kokan region to learn real meaning of Olya Kajuchi Usal.


Kaka Halvai or Chitale. My mind is like a pendulum. Well, my resolution on World Heart Day is “I will never stay away from Kaka Halwai and their Barfi’s.” I Cannot control myself at Kaka Halwai' shop

I have hate and love relationship with Kayani Bakery. I hate it because of the indifference nature of persons at the other side of counter. People should be friendlier to their customers. Warmth and personal touch of the shopkeeper are also equally important, if you want to really enjoy Mava Cakes, Shrewsbury biscuits, Ginger Biscuits. For Bhelpuri, Ragda Pattice, Panipuri. we have not yet found any other alternative to Ganesh Bhel at Nav Sayhadri.

If any one wishes to enjoy Katchi Dabeli, Cheese Katchi Dabeli, then he must make it a point to visit R.P.Vaidhya at Nav Sayhadri.

Gone for Dinner

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