Devka Beach and Daman

I visited Devka Beach last week when I went to Surat. It was a one-day trip from morning 8:30 AM till 10:30 PM at night but we really enjoyed every bit of it.

Route: We started our journey from my in-laws' place taking the route shown in map. We started at around 8:30 AM from our place. We had a small halt at Jalaram Khaman House in Chikhali where we had some Khaman for breakfast. This really reminded me of my school days when we were having such delicious khaman from our canteen. The true taste was because of "Tadka" that they put on the khaman which is nothing but a lot of oil adding to my already overweight body.


There were some traffic delays which increased our time to reach and we reached at Devka beach, Miramar hotel at around 11:45 AM. We used the washrooms of the hotel and meanwhile kids started demanding some play. You can clearly see the photos above of all the three kids enjoying.

My friend had decided to take lunch at Cidade De Daman but there was some marriage ceremony in the resort and was completely booked for lunch and no outsiders were allowed. So we decided to just take some rest by enjoying the sea-view there and decided to move to Jazeera for taking lunch.


We ordered following items in lunch:

• Veg starter - Veg Kabab
• Non-veg starter - Chiken Chili
• Veg soup - Cream of Vegetables
• Non-veg soup - Chicken Manchow
• Two vegetables - One with vegetables and one with Paneer
• One non-veg vegetable
• Naans and Rotis

We finally stayed at Jazeera hotel till 5 PM. The kids enjoyed splashing water in ocean waves.

Finally the ladies decided to do some shopping which actually turned out to be a lot of shopping. We started from Devaka at around 7 PM after having some Breezer and also some Faluda.

While returning home, we had small dinner at Sugar and Spice.

All in all it was really a very nice day spent. The total cost of the trip including commute cost (but excluding shopping of course) came to around INR 500 per person which didn't look high to me.

P.S. Anybody seeing photos of my handsome friend and his beautiful wife and willing to give them modelling contract can directly contact me with comments on this post.

Chaat Bazaar Aundh

We visited Chaat Bazaar, a newly opened restaurant last week at Aundh. Earlier there was a book rental shop JustBooks Plc which moved to first floor while the ground floor got leased by the new restaurant. Our favourite Kadhai in Anand Park got closed two months back so we wanted to try our hands on something new.

Food: We went to restaurant multiple times and tried several different items as given in the list below:

• Pizza Dosa - This was a very new item for us and surprisingly, it turned out to be good. My daughter likes pizza and she liked this one too wrapped with dosa around it. There were two chutneys with the item which was quite tasty.
• Masala Dosa - This was an item made of beet root and the sambhar was better then even at Vaishali.
• Chinese Bhel - This was not something according to our expectation and I didn't think it was value for money.
• Pani puri - This was quite good.
• Hakka Noodles - This along with gravy manuchrian was what my daughter was looking for.
• Gravy Manuchrian - This was good but not as great as that of Rahul restaurant.

We will keep visiting again to check for more items. It is worth trying out.