Elevate Your Senses at Elevate Lounge!

As you enter the premise, the sudden urge to click selfies and groupies would rise! The floor would light up with every step you take and mirrors around you would entice you to keep turning back…

With songs blasting from the speakers, our grand entry was met with just perfect ambience for a fun evening with friends!

Located in Pimple Saudagar, PUNE, Elevate is what any lounge would offer; good music, dim lights, special alcohol offers but with an added benefit. 9.4 kms from SIC, it takes about 20 minutes to reach through an auto.

The seating arrangement is well placed to accommodate different sizes of groups, proving that the space is well utilised. Every table that is placed along the boundary of the lounge is accompanied with beautiful and intricate designs on the wall that symbolises a grandeur and chic personality. Also, the combination of purple gold and red painted all over the lounge gives a very royal and contemporary feel to the guests.

Good food and great alcohol offer makes Elevate a lounge that I would like to visit more than just once. Good food because, it’s not very usual for a lounge to serve such decent tasting dal makhani and paneer makhanwali. Apart from the usual sandwiches, soups and non-veg as well as veg starters, combo meals consisting of Indian bread, Dal Makhani, Raita and Salad plus your choice of curry is a rare sight in a lounge. Then again, we are talking about Elevate here!

Coming to great alcohol offer, Elevate offers one cocktail and subsequently free vodka shots. Hold your horses! There are the dreaded ‘Terms and Conditions Apply’ to this offer as well. The free flowing vodka shots should be accepted by the same guest who takes the cocktail. Adding to this, the free flowing vodka will be flavoured shots. Nevertheless, even the free flowing flavoured vodka shots offer is alluring enough.

A kind warning to the prospective visitors – have a detailed conversation with the servers, asking deep questions about the offers. They may forget to inform you that the vodka is flavoured!

The USP of Elevate is undoubtedly its free flowing vodka offer.

The downside of the lounge is its servers’ articulation skills w.r.t. the offers.

Our ratings:

Food: Average – 7/10, Alcohol: Good – 8/10, Price: Great! – 8.5/10

Read more on Zomato, Burrp and TimesCity.

Horn Ok Please :D

Recommendations – they are so important to everyone. Be it for a student applying for M.S. or a travel blogger about a new place to eat.

Hence, we landed at HORN OK PLEASE in Pune.

Located at FC Road, this place generally requires 10-40 mins of waiting period. The ambiance is of a local dhaba set in Punjab.

Once you enter, the service is super quick. For the people waiting, they have made a waiting area with typical “khaats” found in villages.

The menu is reativley written

 

 

 

 

 

The food is brilliant. The taste is mind blowing. The price is damn affordable and worth every bite!!

A must visit for all north indian food lovers…and in general food lovers!!

The place is decorated amazingly and you understand why people are ready to wait to eat here!! 🙂

Read other reviews: Zomato, Burrp, TripAdvisor.

\\Spice and Ice//

Where does an Arabic food lover go in the land of vada-pav and bhajiya?

When we sought out to seek such an eatery joint, we stumbled upon this still unknown hidden place – much undervalued and underestimated – considering the brilliant food they serve!!

Welcome to Spice and Ice!

Well, even we though the name is kinda cheesy..or cliche. But the fact remains that their name has nothing to do with their food.  Like they say, don’t judge a book by its cover.

Located in Pimpri Chinchwad, Pune, India – near Big Cinemas, under Mc D and beside a huge shopping complex – this place doesn’t get much attention mainly because of the bigger brands’ locations nearby!

The place is very small, but they can accommodate 10-20 people indoors+outdoors. With their limitation in space, they try and make up with the food offering. For an Arabic food lover- this is a must go-to!

Take a look at their menu!

Pretty impressive na?

The food looks fresh, it tastes yum and it is completely worth your money! Their wait time is pretty low, mainly because there aren’t more than 3-4 tables to be served at a time. (We never found more than 3 tables occupied-and we’ve gone here thrice).

There is so much on the menu, you would want to order more than your capacity to eat in one sitting. And don’t forget – Arabic food is much more filling than it looks. The deliciously cooked Humus, Falafel rolls, pita bread just makes you wanna have more and more – even though your tummy says, that’s enough! 😀

We rate them high on customer satisfaction.Just Eat, Zomato, Zoot Out vouch for this place as well.

Do visit it some time folks!

P.S: We found this cool thing there. 😉

A veggie @ Mainland China

Challenges. We all love them. Don’t we?

So when I was told I CANNOT enjoy a meal at Mainland China because it is a place for non-vegetarians only, I said – CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.

Mainland China. A place you would expect the chefs to bring down the culture of China to our plates. And so they did.

Located in Hinjewadi, this outlet is a mini-china on Indian soil. Okay- that may be an exaggeration, but we were swept off by the food, decor, ambiance, music, colors, service, booze – basically everything!!

As we were seated waiting for menu, these bowls with salad appeared. They clearly understand customers are really hungry – and this gesture compensates for any delay in main course.

We ordered. It came. We clicked. We ate. We loved.

The food was master-chef level, the service was impeccable, the quantity was suffice and the vegetarian in me was happy.

CHALLENGE COMPLETED 😀

To celebrate this we ordered two desserts, and both were to die for. Seriously, I would kill my friends for a dozen of these 😉

All-in-all, it is only a myth that Mainland China is for non-veggies only. Veggies in town – DO VISIT. You’re in for a surprise.

See what Zomato, Zootout and Burrp have to say.

(.)Polka Dots(.)

A while back we got a chance to visit Polka Dots. Located in Aundh, Pune, India – this is a heaven for foodies.

We ordered both veg and non-veg dishes and I don’t want to say anything about it – have a look !!

From the look of the menu, we felt the dishes will be exotic – since the names were pretty fancy. And when these dishes arrived, we had to force ourselves to wait for a while – to take pictures of the splendid serving.

Sophisticated, stylish, professional looking food – we were happy even before we ate.

And then it all felt just. The hype, the price, the wait. For these yummiliciously delicious dishes!!!!

The ambiance is cozy, you can find friends, families, dates, youngsters everyone having a good time here. Considering the area isn’t much large – they have done good for themselves.

As you would expect, we were much full after the main course to have dessert, but we could not resist clicking a picture.

All in all, it’s a wonderful place to check out. For those who haven’t done yet, we strongly suggest you drop by here SOON!!

See what they have to say to us – Here.

See what other have to say: Zomato. Times City. Trip Advisor. Burrp. Evening Flavors.

!~ShOlay~!

Don’t you sometimes have the urge to just eat that ONE specific thing? That sudden craving of just an item you remember from a place? When you know what you’re going to order without looking at the menu?

Well, it happens to us for sure. And fortunately many times, because that’s what pushes us to try same or similar things at new places.

Just like that one afternoon we decided to have butter naan and daal makhni. Yes, a typical north Indian order, most commonly repeated a million times in thousands of restaurants, dhabas and eateries all over India.

Then we stumbed upon the idea of visiting Sholay! As they say, every day is a story. And that day indeed was one.

We ordered 3 side dishes – none which were available (russian salad, mexican salad, pineapple raita) – which disappointed us. But then, it was there loss. We had gone there to have our staple punjabi food – daal makhni and butten naan 😉

They had an extensive menu but no guarantee if an item will be available on a particular day. Maybe you can try your luck experimenting, but we believe commonly ordered items will be there at all times. Maybe pineapple raita is an ‘exquisite’ item according to their chef.

Regardless, the non-veg dishes are finger licking good. Take my word because I witnessed some people (a group of 4 gents) actually licking their fingers. Until the waiter saw this and fetched bowls for them to cleanse their hands.

We liked the decor, considering it is a very small place by area..they have done a brilliant job in fitting around 10 tables. There will be waiting on few days, specially weekend -> the food is genuinely good. But otherwise it is good place to hang out if you don’t mind eavesdropping.

We leave you with their contact number – it is worth a try! We give it a thumbs up!! 🙂

Reliance Mart # Food Court

Christmas and New Year gives us a great opportunity to avail great shopping offers on all major brands, and Pune being a city with youngsters has many places to splurge into shopping (read: window shopping).

We strolled around in Reliance Mart for hours and finally sat down to eat in their food court. Not that we went with high expectation, but then we weren’t THAT disappointed either. I think that is the upside of not keeping high hopes. 😀

The place is colorful to the point it reflects happiness even with very few people seated and actually eating. Kids were playing at one corner, couples had occupied some seats, some newly weds had come for an outing and many families were sighted just loitering around (our guess- window shopping). 😉

 

Many options for Indian, Chinese, Italian food lovers as well as fruitareans (yes, that’s a word autocorrect). The only downside is it is pricey for no good reason. Quantity served isn’t that great – a pasta cannot be shared and eaten by two.

We did not eat much, but what we heard in whispers was the place and food is kaam-chalau. Barely. We say.

In our opinion, if you’re in Aundh, Pune there is are many other options to explore – DO NOT WASTE MONEY for eating here. We reviewed other places in Aundh and will be updating them soon.

Till then, keep smiling and munch away to glory 😀

 

 

 

HRC : Hard Rock Cafe

HRC : Hard Rock Cafe.

One of many in the country, but unique in its own. Surrounded by instruments and clothes of some very famous people, we could not help but be awed by the entire arena. The aesthetic value of this two-floored place is one of the best in town. Take our word.

We ordered a Mexican platter, HRC specialty burger and garlic bread. With of course, some drinks.

The food was amazing, needless to say. Service was impeccable. The best was when all the waiters got on a hedge and started dancing on some song they all seem to have rehearsed to.

The bill left us wondering how much we drank (even though it was happy hours 5 pm to 8 pm) 😉 The location is in the posh are of Pune – Koregaon Park. Easy to find using Google Maps. It has many events lined up every month. With a nominal entry and cover fee, you can enjoy the night, very well.

For more, read on TimesCity, Zomato, their website, and FB page.

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~Irish House~

Irish House is one of the eateries in Phoenix Mall, Pune. It may go unnoticed to many as the food court in the mall is huge, but Irish House has its own loyal customers.

 

It has an indoor and outdoor seating area. The bartender was talented, the service although slow, was worth the wait – cuz the food was finger licking good..!!

We found the food and drinks a bit expensive, but then it is one of those places you can go once a month. We have to say, food is top class – like the one in a five star hotel 😉 

The ambiance is superb, there are witty posters hung around about beer, drinking and Irish things. The seating is comfortable and there is a possibility of reservation before hand.

Read more on The Tossed Salad, their Facebook page, Times City and Zomato.

Talk About a.k.a. Biz Tamanna

Located in the heart of Rajiv Gandhi Infotech Park, Talk About a.k.a. Biz Tamanna is a delight to visit. We went there recently and were surprised, in a good way. 🙂

Its roof top ambiance is just splendid and the rates on the menu don’t leave a dent in your pockets.

We ordered 3 starters with some drinks. The quantity of food was good and pretty filling. Time for service was low and all the waiters were on their feet.

Drinks were delicious and were served in larger quantities than we saw in other places.

Overall, we loved our experience!!

Read about the place on Evening Flavors, Trip Advisor and Zomato.