As P and I stepped outside the elevator for a walk, the smell of fried fish greeted us. Immediately our plans were made, we were going to eat out. We were going to eat fish. Right after the walk was over.
The next most question, where do we go? The Bengali joint, Radhika at Baner Road? No, we needed something spicier. Nisarg at Nal Stop? Would be very crowded on a Sunday evening.
In such a moment of crisis, where else would be turn to other than the TFG(Times Food Guide). So P, who has been studying the guide as if it were a work of art, immediately flipped a few pages and gave me two choices, (He has developed a unique system of marking the Restaurants he finds interesting, that I think should be patented. How else could he bring up a shortlist from 100s of choices in less than 5 minutes?) Rahul - one besides the Rahul theater and Srushti at Tilak Road. Rahul I thought too formal..What we want I said is a no-nonsense place, so Srushti it was.
We called them for booking, only to be informed that on Sunday's they did not take any bookings. Lets go late, that way we won't have to wait we said and arrived at the restaurant at 9.45 pm and waited for half an hour. Waited amidst all that delicious smell. We have made a good choice we thought.
When we finally got a table, we were very quick to order, a Pomfret-fry and a Surmai-Malvani-Curry with Amboli (dosas made out of rice-flour) and not to forget the Solkadi.
Fortunately the wait for the food was not as long as the wait for the table. First to arrive was the fish-fry, fried in the malvani style. Now one thing I should mention here is about 6 months back we happened to go to Malvan for a short vacation and ate some delicious authentic malvani fish. So the first thing P said after a bite of the fish was- "Ah, we have been spoiled by Malvan". In short although the fish was good, it just did not match the authentic one. The fish itself felt a little tasteless. Nothing can probably beat fresh fish.
The curry was better and the Ambolis, just about okay. These Ambolis were no match for the Neer-dosa. The bill came to about Rs 350, which was pretty reasonable.
All in all, we had a good meal with our cravings for fish being well satisfied
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
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