My Food Journey in Bangalore - Part 1

I have been enjoying my days in Bangalore last month in my brother’s home and just returned to Chennai. With the scorching sun here, I wish I go back there again. Nice place it is, though right then it was bit humid climate and stuffy. It is indeed my good available choice of place to escape from this Chennai’s hot hot summer.

During my stay there, my cousin and I had some good times exploring some interesting restaurants. Of very late, it occurred to me that I could share it here with the pictures and my little funny experience of gobbling good food n gulping tasty drinks. J

My Date With Apple Grape Sangria

One day after our yoga lessons, we were looking for some place to quench our thirst. We usually catch an auto come straight to our neighborhood, where we have tasty tasty sugarcane juice. But that day, my cousin was telling about this tea shop and it was in a walk-able distance, where she went quite a long time back with one of her friends. Okay I said, happily looking forward, we set our journey searching for Chai Patty - Tea Cafe - Teafe.

‘A small and a nice road side kinda tea shop’, she said, ‘you will love it’. I was very excited and couldn't wait any longer to have some freshly brewed Chai to regain my lost energy. Since she said it was somewhere nearby, we decided to take a walk. In 100 feet road, we were walking... walking... walking... straight ahead, looking for this Teafe but couldn't find it anywhere nearby. Little more than 45 minutes of walk from our yoga class, we passed by 3 bus stops in that main road, already, surfing every shops out there. ‘It was here. It was here. I remember, but have they shifted elsewhere? oops’, she was mumbling all the way. We both were very tired and badly needed to sit. Finally, ‘there it is’, she exclaimed.  It was an under construction building. We were breathless and climbed 2 stories, since no lift available. And yeah they seemed to have moved from the ground floor to the second, recently.

As we entered, I found it was a lovely place to hangout with friends. With bamboo chairs and mats and short tables n stools, the ambiance and the drawings all over the walls, I liked it immediately. The crowd was decent as well. We sat down and glanced through the menu, my cousin ordered for lemon tea, without much thought. And since I was quite sweaty after power yoga and of course, my long tiring walk, made my mind to change for something cold to quench my thirst at that time. There I caught an interesting name, Apple Grape Sangria. Sounds like an interesting name, isn't it? We placed our orders and waiting for them to serve us.

We were relaxing and chit chatting till they serve and taking pictures of each other. We kinda sat opposite to the fridge, and then my cousin pointed at the waiter who was holding my drink’s ingredients in hand. I was like (:o)

In a few minutes time, he served us the drinks. I was so thirsty, whatever the ingredient was, I gulped already half the glass of my chilled drink. Do I have to say it was good? Well, at that time, even plain cold water would have tasted better in my tongue. I tasted my cousin's Lemon Tea and it was good n refreshing. But we found the quantity was little less or that’s what we thought.

We were little bit of disappointed... idhukka ivlo dhooram nadanthu vandhom? :-/ Have we walked all the way to spend on ‘this’ drink?? L

There was this accessory shop inside Chai Patty. My cousin bought a shoe there. At the end, we both were happy for that she got a new shoe, which indeed made our walk worth it. A walk to remember in a long time.

Still, yeah, we could have stopped by a supermarket to have my very drink. Never mind. We enjoyed laughing at it now. Oh wait, I will of course let you know the recipe of it. It is indeed a perfect one to serve when you have a guest at home or to drink and relish yourself this summer.

Half a glass of Tropicana Apple + Half a glass of Tropicana Grape + few Apple pieces to float = Apple Grape Sangria, cost me 60 bucks and leg pain that night.

Well, it was not my perfect date then but now i got a story to share here and of course smiling at it.

And yeah, I told you that we saw that waiter standing near the fridge, with the ingredient in hand, right? Now I bet you can guess what he was holding then. ;-)

Moral of the story... Drink tea in a tea shop and coffee in a coffee shop, rather than buying a juice. :p