Some times I feel like pitying the Jubilee Hills/ Banjara Hills crowd for some of the travails they go through, especially travails involving food and eating out. I’m amazed how they manage to go through life when there are eating joints sprouting up around them all the time. There are hotels and restaurants opening in their locality with such an unfailing regularity that they hardly have any time to catch their breath.
Not more than three weeks (time taken for an egg to hatch) must have passed since a foodie joint- XPRS- of the Venky’s Group opened in Banjara Hills and now another XPRS branch has popped up in Madhapur, which is, for all purposes, the backyard of Jubilee Hills.
Now anyone of the JH crowd feels that the XPRS in Banjara Hills is too far away or full then they can always go to the Madhapur branch to fill up. One must actually commend Venky’s for being so thoughtful and making things easy for the this crowd. Anyway, I hope Venky’s opens its next XPRS branch this side of the city though it doesn’t matter a bit since we’ve got our own Irani joints and other places.
Talking of food and eating out reminds me of the ad I saw for ‘Nature’s Basket’ where the Jubilee Hills/Banjara Hills crowd can shop for some exotic stuff to take home and eat on the rare occasions whey they are not eating out. I read somewhere that the Godrej Group opened a food store called ‘Nature’s Basket’ somewhere on Road No. 10, Banjara Hills. I read that the store stocks thirty varieties of cheese, cold cuts ( I do not even know what that is) and other such stuff.
Anyway, I don’t grudge them what they eat and probably I too wouldn’t mind eating such stuff provided it is actually edible and provided someone sells it on a bandi.
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Wow, another one! They dont have to build kitchen to their houses ok?:-)
About a week ago i found your blog and since than i read a lot of your posts. I am really happy to find your writing. You are very good at it.
And, thanks for introducing so many writers, i didn't even know, to me.
Vetri, someone must give them that idea of houses without kitchens!
dlr, thank you for the encouragement. Keep reading :)
You are slowly and surely on the way to becoming a major scourge of the Banjara and Jubilee Hill-ites...now that you have put your mug on your blog...they know what you look like...ask Spenser for tips...he'd want to discuss this over a pitcher...
Do you have any connection with the Ekbotes of Kachiguda?
I was googling for Jalpan with the same intention of finding out where the place is.It appears it is opposite to Kalaniketan Building in the Oasis Center,Somajiguda - you were right not far from the Hills!
Keshav, we have no connection with the Kachiguda Ekbotes though I knew Anil Ekbote.
Keshav, thanks for locating Jalpan! We are all indebted to you :)
Jai, 'scourge' or not, they wouldn't bother with someone like me. Also, for this crowd a 'Spenserian' approach wouldn't be necessary :)
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