Of Pot Pourris and Blue Frogs

Hey!

Last weekend was awesome! :) Lots of time spent with family and then some just by ourselves! Saturday lunch was at Pot Pourri Wold Cuisine Cafe at the InOrbit Mall in Vashi. Have been there once before as well.. What, I didn't write about that?! OK, then a little backtrack. Had been there sometime back and had the buffet at lunch. This is a good idea for me, as I end up being the lone vegetarian in the group. I could try all sorts of stuff. Worth mentioning are the Salsa sauce and the Hummus!! Oh, the Hummus!! They had crisp Pita bits with the Hummus... could not have enough of them!!

This time round the kids had the Margarita as usual, and the Mushroom Soup. I had the Veggie Salsa Burger... very impressive! The others had the Thai Red Chicken Curry and the Chicken Stroganoff (is that how you spell it?) which were both very good.

The ice teas (Peach, Strawberry, Blackcurrant and Lemon) are all great.. maybe a tad too sweet for many. The Minty Melon drink was tried and appreciated. So was the Homestyle Apple Lemonade.. (yes you read that right!).

To top it up we had the Sizzling Brownie with Ice Cream... pretty standard stuff there.. but we enjoyed it thoroughly coz we had it after ages!

Perfect Saturday Lunch!

Then Sunday was a different story. Radio One's RJ Malini, one my favourite RJs on my favourite radio station in Mumbai, was very kind to give me passes to the Weirdass Ham-ateur Night at Blue Frog in Lower Parel. So G and I got to spend a night out in town! The show was brilliant!! So was the food!! We were lucky to catch happy hour.. Our drinks for the day were Raz-mattaz and Tajihito. Two glasses down, the amateur comedians were real funny!! ;) The starter was a quaint quiche... french beans, cheese and coconut... hmmm, much like chapati-bhaji really... a little disappointing. But the main course was awesome.. I had the Penne with Cherry Tomatoes.. two words... mmm mmmm! G had the Sloppy Joe ad reported it to be great! We refrained from dessert although the menu looked soooo inviting!

Much fun was had and a big bill was rung up too!!

Cheers!!

Reasons for the silence

Hey... After a long time....
couple of reasons for the silence... a. Our office moved to Turbhe (read.. wilderness) No more lunch outings! b. I'm on kind of a diet... trying to lose the extra 2-3 inches!
Therefore, there has not been much activity on the restaurant hopping front!
Until last Thursday, that is.....
We've been doing a bit of explorations in the Vashi-Sanpada area!
Couple of disappointments... Bombay Blue/Noodle Bar at Center One seems to have disappeared! And as we just discovered today, the Kobe Sizzlers place at Sagar Vihar in Vashi closed down almost 6 months back!!!
So lunch on Thursday was at The Creek at the Abbott Hotel in Sector 1, Vashi.... very good food... great ambiance. For once, there were new vegetarian Punjabi dishes on the menu (or at least they had new names). I had the Veg Ujala... rather yellow, but very nice. The Sesame Veg Seekh Kabab (the zero-oil variety) was amazing as well. All in all a very satisfying afternoon..

Today was another story! After the Kobe episode..we were quite dashed! Couldn't really look for new places so we decided to go to Chenab for Punjabi food again. Its right above where Kobe used to be and we've been there a couple of times before a few years back, but we did remember that it was pretty good.
But this time round..... um i guess we would bring our rating down by 2 stars from the original 3.5! Service was slow, the electricity went off (not really their fault), few flies were bothering us, food was only OK. I had the Veg Biryani and Raita. Can't really go very wrong with those! But the Gulab Jamun was horrible, yes... horrible! And it all took very long!

On that note... I hope for some yummy sandwiches for dinner at home :) Can't wait!

Cheers, people.....