foodies walkie

Foodies went on an economizing spree and decided to walk to the much - postponed dosa camp (not the restaurant - but a stall at Koramangala 5th block). 3 hardy members set out against the elements and all (surprise, surprise!) reached the place in 20 minutes only to see the stall enveloped by people and be handed a small chit of paper with  77 on it. Tightening our belts, we moseyed around and fell ravenously on pani puri available nearby. Fortified thus, an hour later, our number was called and we were allowed to take position right in front of the wooden cart. Four huge tavaas were lined up with dosa batter splashed on along with a huge dollop of butter melting over it; a mishmash of vegetables were added, and we called out our preferred fillings choosing to go with one each of chinese (stuffed with noodles and sauces),palak, mushroom and paneer.  We had to seat ourselves on the pavement, not having enough hands to hold 4 plates and grab the food... and grab we did, with scant regard for plate, owner or dosa. A silence descended for the next 20 minutes, interrupted only with slurping noises and cries of pain over burnt fingers.. What words can one choose to describe the most scrumptious dosaas we had ever tasted? Noodles and dosaa turned out to be a more than edible combo; and the palak dosaa was close to divine. With all the butter we downed, the decision to walk back seemed foresighted... And 3 hardy members crawled back, each with satisfied smiles and weighing a little heavier than before. We would rate it 9/10 with the bill being negligible, the food perfect, and totally worth the wait and the weight
Malvika

foodies club at Magnolia

..hmmm... this is an interesting one..... the route to magnolia is as spicy as the food.... agent Mala..our star cartographer succeeded in giving agent Lee a surprise tour of Bangalore (more specifically..it's outskirts) with these simple directions to mongolia...eh sorry..magnolia..". just keep going straight ...straight from St John's ... and at the dead end.. turn left.." .. Well.. after all the confusion in reaching the place..we found magnolia to be quite a decent hangout  with a soothing ambience... and good food to boot... we kept it simple with the ordering and everyone had their share of mocktails and beer... a bill of 250 per head.. definitely reasonable.. the group decided on an overall rating of 7/10 for the place.. and surprise.. surprise.. it was a straight road back home...!  

foodies club at pariwar

A depleted foodies club sans usual faces opted for a low key foodies meet at the oft visited pariwar in jayanagar...the new faces were agents kavita..and piyush (who joined back after a long time)...agent malavika tried drawing our attention to the much maligned cafe pascuccci and the new hotel 1947 (with rates from 2050)
but finally we decided that we had enough disasters aready and went for the safer option...,,,but  I'm in no mood to write a detailed review  for it was a silent dinner over neer dosae, phulkas and veg curries- paneer butter masala, veg jhalfrazi and dhal methi...agent sabari for unknown reasons decided to abstain from nonveg...and resisted intense craving for fish .... following dinner the saving grace was cothas coffee..following which all agents went back as silently as they came.. an overall rating of 5.5 for this joint...

N.E. DINER....

Today was one of those days you try for something and end with something totally mysterious yet not disconcerting in the end. The regulars of “Foodies club ” with couple of newbies set out to explore the Dosa Camp . As warned by one of our members it was crowded & we got token no. 62 (it was a road side shop for heaven sakes) .Tentative time given to us to quench our oral desires was about half an hour. When we have a SR on duty & couple of ever ravenous guys on board waiting for half an hour would be the last thing we would think of.

So “N.E.Diner” which was our fall-back option came into the picture & in no time we were there seated in this authentic north-east Indian cuisine restaurant in Koramangala. Malvika , the only veggie in the group had a tough time zeroing in on her menu as anticipated by rest of us all. She finally found her solace in Veg momos , steamed rice & some side dish made up of Lady’s finger (forgot the names of those dishes...i asked Malvika to note down those ...having got overwhelmed with the cuisine she must have forgotten to do that...! )

For rest of us it was hunting time. We started off with couple of Chicken starters , one named quite intriguingly “OK Chicken” (why not “Excellent Chicken” or “Scrumptious Chicken ” or “Yummy Chicken” ..! though it ended up as “Okay” kinda Chicken only ..!) & ‘Naga deep fried Pork’. The later was the best among em all.

So far so good though there was nothing prototypically “North-eastern” so far. Then came in the Main course where along with the routine Chinese stuff of mixed chicken-egg-vegetable Noodles & Fried rice , came in the ‘Fried Fish with Bamboo Stew’ & ‘some Chicken with Bamboo Stew’ along with the biggest mistake of em all ‘Fermented fish with herbs chutney’ which was an “Olfactory delight” to one and all! The Noodles & Fried rice were good while both the stews had an overwhelming Bambooish flavour which was repulsive to some while Mahaveer devoured it like there was no tomorrow.(hope he is not reading this..!) However ‘Fermented fish + herbs chutney’ had an instantaneous pukey response in everyone ended up being the “Untouchable”.

Meanwhile Malvika still trying her might to get something to satisfy her lingual craving ended up paying up for her rendezvous with the chopsticks & rice rather than anything else. Nishanth sir was equally entertaining with his antics with the chopsticks coached by Suresh sir.

The waiter needs a mention here for he was hard working & very courteous (as any North-eastern is). & we found out that his ‘raashi’ is ‘Aquarius’ for he kept on asking for the water to be filled every 5 minutes. Service wise it was one of the best we have experience so far , i should say.

The price was also not that expensive , we ended up paying Rs.170/head for a heavy dinner (Malvika excuse) & rounded of the day with the ‘most delectable coffee in town ’ at the A2B . Though we set out with a particular place in mind & ended up in a diametrically opposite place , as they say “All’s well that end’s well...!” , we came back with satisfaction.

The group rating : 6/10

Sabari

Dosa camp to NE food

..friends.. the long anticipated Dosa camp rendezvous turned out to be a non starter.. for we got token no 62 just to give our order..and so the hungry and hypoglycaemic foodies decided to go to the north east food joint in Koramanagala... specific details will be covered by agent Sabari who has sworn to give an in depth report... btw..the foodies club has decided that the venue will be decided at least a day earlier to avoid unnecessary confusion... cheers..

format to rate food joints

guys ..here are few points on which we have been rating food joints  on a score of 10 each. please suggest a few more...
1. quality
2. cost
3. ambience
4. service
5. value for money
total

Dosa camp

..the next target of the all conquering foodies club..is dosa camp.. the only dosa camp i could come up with in my google search is in jayanagar 3rd block.. but agent teja ..has given us secret info that there is a better one in koramangala.. any takers?????