Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Lal Bagh: Newly Opened Restaurant in Udaipur

There is nothing inside it to relate it with RED GARDEN as the name suggest. Lal is the hindi name of color “Red” and Bagh means “Garden”.

Lal Bagh is the first restaurant of its type situated very near to the city area, it started just before 9-10 month and having no such competition in its category, it has vintage look outside as well as inside which gives it uniqueness. Enough space of approx 100-125 chairs at a time makes is easy for the parties. When you enter this restaurant first thing you’ll notice is it’s door (main gate) it’s a traditional kind of gate coloring red (this might be the reason for calling the restaurant Lal Bagh.  ).

The second attracting thing is the vintage car, you’ll see after entering . There are 3-4 types of sitting arrangement for different purposes like corporate meetings, family parties etc. the one thing which makes it unique is the Saturday and the Sunday nights, the main attraction on these days is the live performances they organizes.

Now lets talk about the food, it has a very lengthy menu card which includes Chinese, continental, Punjabi etc. there are some items which may confuse you with the names they used like Dal Pachranga (I dint find 5-Rang in the Dal except its original yellow color), the food was ok kind of, not very different from other, even a near one small restaurants are offering better quality cuisine Meera, Bawarchi, Daya, Nataraj are some name in this category and all at very cheap rates. We spent around 300/- per head which seems to be satisfactory under those facilities.

Sitting arrangement was very fancy and decorative but there was a mismatch between table and the surrounding chairs, where we had our lunch had 4 chairs around a table but table was too short that I thought they would give us another table for putting stuffs on it.

Time taken by the waiter for service was so short that I could have a sleep in between  . but they were well dressed up and behaved very well with us. Atmosphere is soothing and calm which gives you the comfort feeling.

Overall experience was ok, would go again till better one comes in the city.

Bawarchi: A Chef

During my journey to Udaipur city, the city of lakes, I visited all the visiting places around it. It’s a beautiful place to visit in the west zone so far I visited. Being a tourism city there are lot of Restaurants and Hotels exists in the city. I went to many of the hotels as well as in the restaurants during this period.

I came to know about one more restaurant situated in the mid of the Udaipur city. It named “Bawarchi”, its image in the city is very good. It is situated at Delhi Gate circle which is very close to the bus stand so I did not have any trouble reaching the place.

For the last 17 years Bawarchi has been offering its services to the customers. It is one of the busiest Restaurant in the city, I realized this when I had to wait outside on the road for my dinner. This was fairly annoying but I decided not to loose my temper and waited for my number to get in. Finally I got the chance after 10-15 minutes.

What I saw was just amazing; the place was very crowded. The tables were small but enough for a family of four. Thali (plate) and Ala-carte were both available. Thali were of two types, one was Rajasthani and the other was Gujrati. The Thali was very inexpensive (Rs.55/- per head) and it included 4-5 vegetarian and one sweet dish. There was no limit on the number of breads/chappatis I ate. This Thali system was on the first floor and Ala-carte was on the ground floor. Chinese, Punjabi and Rajasthani dishes were available on order. An ala-carte meal normally costs around 100-120/- per head. It has two good competitors Daya and Meera in the neighborhood, they also had a similar crowd of people waiting outside and run the similar menus with small variations. Taste of the food is good too.

Overall experience was good and I would recommend Bawarchi to anyone looking for an economical tasty vegetarian meal in the heart of Udaipur city.

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