After a long time my full group was free yesterday. We planned for a lunch out since we had to treat our 3 pals. The venue was decided->"Urban Tadka". This restaurant is situated somewhere in Andheri Versova area. After usual delays we reached there little late. We had heard that the place served good food and it did include non-veg food. Hence Rohan was dam excited.
After entering it the first thought which came in my mind was there are "Chutiyas" in Mumbai and its really easy to shell money out from them. They had this strange theme for their ambience and it was an excellent paradigm for cheap way to build an attractive restaurant. As soon as you enter their old style wooden door you see a statue of cock. To the right they had their bar with archaic radio on top. Their celing had dirty white cream color and had made a thick jute mesh on it. Bunch of white onions at random intervals, bunch of bangles encirlcing the lights, Drums with glowing coloured bulbs inside were few things which was suspended from this rope. Wall was roughly plastered and was given the same old white color. This wall was decorated with few posters of films (probably they were advertising for those movies but these films were already released and outdated from the theaters and 2 were yet to come), then pictures of north Indian people. To add more to the chart there were few antiquated items like bed, plough, bullock cart wheel, craft items which were nailed to the wall. On the partition they had few earthenware with water and nice frangnant flowers(dunno its name hehe), an alarming drum which they banged to indicate that their kitchen is closed now. They had their basin made up of a aluminum bucket with a hole at the bottom.
After all this let me come to the place where we sat. They used these old wooden table which was painted with a dark colour and wooden chair was made with some thick rope tied at the seat. Plates were I guess copper and steel mix really can't describe but they were not the usual ones which we get in the restaurants. But ofcourse they were again those cheap plates bought from bhangar. Menu card was on the slates.
Their entire cost of raising hotel was really low and most of the things were put there from the waste. There are many sensless people in the world who would love such things. The only good thing was they had good quality of food for excessive rates and the place where we were sitting was not at all worth paying so much. Well but it was a good thing to see as it was little unusual than the normal restaurants we have been to.
After entering it the first thought which came in my mind was there are "Chutiyas" in Mumbai and its really easy to shell money out from them. They had this strange theme for their ambience and it was an excellent paradigm for cheap way to build an attractive restaurant. As soon as you enter their old style wooden door you see a statue of cock. To the right they had their bar with archaic radio on top. Their celing had dirty white cream color and had made a thick jute mesh on it. Bunch of white onions at random intervals, bunch of bangles encirlcing the lights, Drums with glowing coloured bulbs inside were few things which was suspended from this rope. Wall was roughly plastered and was given the same old white color. This wall was decorated with few posters of films (probably they were advertising for those movies but these films were already released and outdated from the theaters and 2 were yet to come), then pictures of north Indian people. To add more to the chart there were few antiquated items like bed, plough, bullock cart wheel, craft items which were nailed to the wall. On the partition they had few earthenware with water and nice frangnant flowers(dunno its name hehe), an alarming drum which they banged to indicate that their kitchen is closed now. They had their basin made up of a aluminum bucket with a hole at the bottom.
After all this let me come to the place where we sat. They used these old wooden table which was painted with a dark colour and wooden chair was made with some thick rope tied at the seat. Plates were I guess copper and steel mix really can't describe but they were not the usual ones which we get in the restaurants. But ofcourse they were again those cheap plates bought from bhangar. Menu card was on the slates.
Their entire cost of raising hotel was really low and most of the things were put there from the waste. There are many sensless people in the world who would love such things. The only good thing was they had good quality of food for excessive rates and the place where we were sitting was not at all worth paying so much. Well but it was a good thing to see as it was little unusual than the normal restaurants we have been to.
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Fellow siddharth, forgot to mention the so called "waiting area" .. if you had to wait to get into the restraunt, then you would have to sit overlooking some great plants that were freshly soiled with, natures best, cow dung. ..
and also keepin to the theme of the restraunt, water(or any other drink or liquid) was served in the local "chaiwala" "cutting" glass, only bigger.
We also had some "gajra" on the table for inhaling pleasures..
This being the case, If you wanna be prodigal, you know where to go...
Haha..Yes ofcourse these were more funny addons. Thanks Phillips for adding it.
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