Friday Evening Fun around Bangalore-Where to Head?

If you are looking to enjoy a Friday evening with friends, just outside the city, and would want some good food to complement the alcohol, I'd like to recommend a hotel that I went out with my friends on the Hoskote highway. Try out Emerald Isle, 2 kms from Hoskote town on the left side of the highway. The restaurant serves food to your rooms, in the most unobtrusive manner, allowing to enjoy your alcohol(even if brought from outside). We tried Butter Naan, with Paneer Butter Masala, along with Dal Makhni. We found it reasonably okay, to eat and belch well, before the conversations starts dimming in the wake of alcohol around. Do check other reviews on the hotel and the food here. My friend, who eats non vegan stuff, seemed happy with their Chicken Kebabs.

Things to be careful :

• While enjoying your food in the room, do close your windows and doors, as a lot of monkeys prowl in around the area.

• Breakfast is complimentary, and lunch is charged at around Rs 350 per head. A tad expensive, since it in a resort

• Most amenties like pool/TT Table are not functional. Its best if you shut yourself down in the room, crank up the Airconditioner, and enjoy your meals.

Hat Tip :

• External Alcohol is not allowed. Bring your alcohol in a bag, and head to the room. Open it there, and while you order food, you will enjoy the support of the bell boys, who assume people bring their own drinks here.

• There's a tender coconut shop that closes at 8 pm, three kilometres down the same highway towards Chennai. Stock on some coconut water, to mix with the alcohol to tone down your hangover, and wake up in time for breakfast!

Hoppipola!

This place-Hopiipola on 100 feet road reminds me of college! They've created a beautiful little 'adda' to catch up on conversations. A pitcher of beer at 260 is the same cost I would pay for a glass of beer on the same road at Toit. We had French fries that were crisp, and Pizza, where there was a delicious layer of melted cheese, which went well with the pitcher we drank.

While the place is noisy and play some irrelevant music, the relaxed ambience and the down-to-earth prices of beer, more than make up for it.

I'd recommend this place for a lazy evening catch up with friends!

Where are the Best Idlis on the Bangalore-Mangalore Highway?

On the 15th of August, I sought independence from work, traffic jams and the responsibilities that surround our daily lives. As we headed to C R Patna, we encountered a small shop, that sells idlis, dosas and sevai's. This is on the left of the Bangalore Mangalore highway an hour before Chennarayapatna, and is not very tough to spot, especially when stomach years for some food to recharge its batteries. We stopped there for breakfast, and this was the softest idli, I have ever had. No images, since I was so busy eating, that I had no time to click anything! The prices are very nominal. For 10 idlis, 2 dosas, and 1 coffee, we paid about 150 Rs. Pure Pleasure for the cost and the taste! Don't Miss it!

100 Ft Road Boutique Hotel-Indira Nagar

The 100 Feet Road Boutique Hotel is a lovely and quaint place, that will attract you as an eating place, but my experiences were far from the beauty of the place. We had a pizza there, and went there mainly for talking and spending time. Women will find this place attractive, and will like the little store that's there in the hotel to sell arts and crafts, but will also easily know that the items are overpriced. To benchmark Pizzas in Bangalore, I usually love having it at Pizza Hut, and if that were the 100 percentile normalised scale, the ones at the 100 Feet Road Boutique hotel are probably at the 40th percentile. It sometimes feels like the pizza bread and the layer on top are separate entities. The food also takes quite a while to come. I'd not recommend this hotel to go and spend an evening!

Travel To Find Food- Why It Started Now?

Hi Folks

This blog was started with the aim of sharing quips/experiences on food available during travel. Like the lovely supersoft idlis, available on NH48 before C R Patna, or the road side pani puri that you find next to India. Hope you enjoy the experience and contribute on the site.