NEW MEANING TO EATING OUT
Eating out in Hyderabad, you have restaurants like Seasons, Minerva, Dakhini, Chaitra, Chinese Pavilion, Noodle Bar, Fusion 9, Khana Khazana, Eat Street.
Eat Street is a whole new meaning in eating out, its in my opinion very eating out, the combination of many food stalls with lakeside view and random spread tables and chairs and beach umbrellas overhead is located on Necklace Road, if you enter Necklace Road from Hyderabad Secratariate side you go up a kilometer and park your car or whatever in the first available parking space, even if it is a paid space, it is a blessing to find one on weekends, you will have to park the car on the opposite side of the road, otherwise you will have to go a long way up and come back down the road to park near eatstreet. But whichever way you will have to walk around 300 meters to reach the entrance, the entrance is a throng of people, it is 300 feet wide and once you enter. The carnival begins.
From your left to right you have around 20 food stalls, each stand with 7 or 8 people behind the counters with one cashier but wait ! you are not in a hurry to self serve the food yet, lets take a look that is what catches your eye right from the entrance, nobody is in a hurry to eat in eatstreet, the place itself is a stretch of 400 meters long and 50 or 70 feet wide land neatly arranged beside iron railings bordering the lake are seats, 6 seats and a stone top tables, 4 seats and a table, 2 seats and a small table, colourful, happy beach umbrellas shaking wildly with the cool breeze coming from the lake side which is Hussain Sagar, there are some moveable chairs lying around and there are some chairs arranged around a wooden platform fixed to the poles supporting half covered roof to the whole structure, there are covered areas, semi covered areas and open to air areas to sit. All beside the railings of the lake.
Budget Rs.500 for 2 people, you have light snacks like chat and puris, Rajasthani bhel and other serious South Indian foods and North Indian foods, Biryani, Idly, Puloa, Samosas, Dosa etc.,Jeera rice, Lemon rice and many variety of rice and sandwiches, cheese coffee, soft drinks (No hard drinks) you can have fried chicken of the Kentucky fried chicken kind etc.,
All this arrangements is noise free except near the entrance, there are no traffice sounds or anyother sounds except the chatter of eaters, even that is not very diverting because of the openness of the place, you can have serious conversation with your partner, its not a place to go when you are in a mood to be served and bugged by a tie wearing waiters, its where you go when you dont need anyone to bother you when to order or what to order !!!, its your place.
All food stalls take cash and give you token number, get your dish delivered in a neatly arranged plastic tray, carry it and float towards the table or spot beaconing you. It is a place to unwind, if you require some sauces or paper napkins, there are some uniformed guys who will do the needful for you, or you take a few steps to the counter and get it done. the stretch of 400 meters, very long place right !!!
Each stand is a seperate business and managed by different people, their establishment names are painted boldly and the menus and the prices are painted in big letter is very convenient if you ask me. If all this is difficult, just go to the display of foods where there are dishes in the final form are waiting, just point at it and the staff will smilingly tell you the cost and direct you towards the cashier, no need to remember some complex names of dishes. Spare the memory for other useful things.
The place is throbbing with people, many are youngsters and others who are not so young look like youngsters from the ambience of this place. The age is reduced from your face once you are inside, you will notice people walking to and fro holding hands and weighing the possiblities of future togather. Between the stalls and the seats there is a walkway, well decorated and uniformed boys efficiently clearing the mess of people and dumping them in covered bins , they are fast, this place is free of garbage spilled or chucked.
There is a boat restaurant near the entrance, it serves all type of roasts, its a climb of 2 level of steps and many chairs and tables have people enjoying. Its a structure permanently fixed maded to look like a boat. Rs.500 (US$ 12) is not a bad bargain if you eat something in this place, just snacks will cost you less, this figure is what I assume I will need in this place to eat, but if you dont eat anything nobody will eyeball you to order or ask you to leave the chair for other customers, this place is a cross between a park and a bunch of good hotels, the offspring is EATSTREET.
Park, Walk, Sit, Unwind, Buy food, or dont eat anything, its the formula for good time, maybe every city in the world needs eat streets.
YO EAT STREET IS EAT WHEN YOU WANT, WHAT YOU WANT, HOW YOU WANT OR JUST LEAVE WITHOUT EATING.
Eating out in Hyderabad, you have restaurants like Seasons, Minerva, Dakhini, Chaitra, Chinese Pavilion, Noodle Bar, Fusion 9, Khana Khazana, Eat Street.
Eat Street is a whole new meaning in eating out, its in my opinion very eating out, the combination of many food stalls with lakeside view and random spread tables and chairs and beach umbrellas overhead is located on Necklace Road, if you enter Necklace Road from Hyderabad Secratariate side you go up a kilometer and park your car or whatever in the first available parking space, even if it is a paid space, it is a blessing to find one on weekends, you will have to park the car on the opposite side of the road, otherwise you will have to go a long way up and come back down the road to park near eatstreet. But whichever way you will have to walk around 300 meters to reach the entrance, the entrance is a throng of people, it is 300 feet wide and once you enter. The carnival begins.
From your left to right you have around 20 food stalls, each stand with 7 or 8 people behind the counters with one cashier but wait ! you are not in a hurry to self serve the food yet, lets take a look that is what catches your eye right from the entrance, nobody is in a hurry to eat in eatstreet, the place itself is a stretch of 400 meters long and 50 or 70 feet wide land neatly arranged beside iron railings bordering the lake are seats, 6 seats and a stone top tables, 4 seats and a table, 2 seats and a small table, colourful, happy beach umbrellas shaking wildly with the cool breeze coming from the lake side which is Hussain Sagar, there are some moveable chairs lying around and there are some chairs arranged around a wooden platform fixed to the poles supporting half covered roof to the whole structure, there are covered areas, semi covered areas and open to air areas to sit. All beside the railings of the lake.
Budget Rs.500 for 2 people, you have light snacks like chat and puris, Rajasthani bhel and other serious South Indian foods and North Indian foods, Biryani, Idly, Puloa, Samosas, Dosa etc.,Jeera rice, Lemon rice and many variety of rice and sandwiches, cheese coffee, soft drinks (No hard drinks) you can have fried chicken of the Kentucky fried chicken kind etc.,
All this arrangements is noise free except near the entrance, there are no traffice sounds or anyother sounds except the chatter of eaters, even that is not very diverting because of the openness of the place, you can have serious conversation with your partner, its not a place to go when you are in a mood to be served and bugged by a tie wearing waiters, its where you go when you dont need anyone to bother you when to order or what to order !!!, its your place.
All food stalls take cash and give you token number, get your dish delivered in a neatly arranged plastic tray, carry it and float towards the table or spot beaconing you. It is a place to unwind, if you require some sauces or paper napkins, there are some uniformed guys who will do the needful for you, or you take a few steps to the counter and get it done. the stretch of 400 meters, very long place right !!!
Each stand is a seperate business and managed by different people, their establishment names are painted boldly and the menus and the prices are painted in big letter is very convenient if you ask me. If all this is difficult, just go to the display of foods where there are dishes in the final form are waiting, just point at it and the staff will smilingly tell you the cost and direct you towards the cashier, no need to remember some complex names of dishes. Spare the memory for other useful things.
The place is throbbing with people, many are youngsters and others who are not so young look like youngsters from the ambience of this place. The age is reduced from your face once you are inside, you will notice people walking to and fro holding hands and weighing the possiblities of future togather. Between the stalls and the seats there is a walkway, well decorated and uniformed boys efficiently clearing the mess of people and dumping them in covered bins , they are fast, this place is free of garbage spilled or chucked.
There is a boat restaurant near the entrance, it serves all type of roasts, its a climb of 2 level of steps and many chairs and tables have people enjoying. Its a structure permanently fixed maded to look like a boat. Rs.500 (US$ 12) is not a bad bargain if you eat something in this place, just snacks will cost you less, this figure is what I assume I will need in this place to eat, but if you dont eat anything nobody will eyeball you to order or ask you to leave the chair for other customers, this place is a cross between a park and a bunch of good hotels, the offspring is EATSTREET.
Park, Walk, Sit, Unwind, Buy food, or dont eat anything, its the formula for good time, maybe every city in the world needs eat streets.
YO EAT STREET IS EAT WHEN YOU WANT, WHAT YOU WANT, HOW YOU WANT OR JUST LEAVE WITHOUT EATING.
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