Greens and Olives Aundh

We visited Greens and Olives restaurant on last Thursday as part of celebrating my wife's birthday.

Food: The menu of the restaurant is available here. The restaurant offers buffet lunch and a la carte. There were many items on menu but we ordered following:

• My wife and I ordered Brocolli Cheese Soup - we really liked it.
• We ordered Classic Italian Minestrone Soup - this was plain soup so we didn't like much.
• Lebanese Platter - this included Falafel with Pita Bread and Hummus. I had recently eaten a similar item in Surat and I knew how to eat it otherwise it was difficult to understand how to eat it.
• Mexican Rice - This was the best item we had.
• Brownie with ice cream

The total bill came to 1635 which was a bit on the higher side for three people but due to my wife's birthday, I didn't care much.

Nature Photography Exhibition in Balgandharva Kaladalan, JM Road

There was a nature photography exhibition in Balgandharva Kaladalan, J M Road between April 9 - 11. My wife and I visited the exhibition on April 10, in the evening at 7:30 PM. The exhibition timing was between 11 AM to 8 PM. My daughter didn't accompany us since she wanted to spend her sunday evening playing in garden with her friends rather than visiting an exhibition.

There were many artists whose pictures were kept. Photography was not allowed otherwise I would have kept some glimpses of those photos here. The photos covered animals like tiger, deer and others, birds, butterflies and buildings. There were photos of scenic views from Uttarakhand, Kashmir, Sikkim and other beautiful places too. Unfortunately not only Indian but even buildings of other countries were covered.

It was a good half an hour fun for us.

Sigree Global Grill - Dhole Patil Road

I visited Sigree Global Grill restaurant on Dhole Patil Road as part of taking on lunch some office guests visiting from US.

Food: The menu of the restaurant is available here. The restaurant offers buffet lunch and dinner. There were many items on lunch.

• There were soups but nobody went for any.
• The restaurant served many grills both veg and non-veg which included
• Mushroom
• Mayonnaise with Salad
• Pineapple
• Potato
• Paneer
• Brocoli
• In the mains, there were four vegetables which I am not able to recall but one was with Paneer, one Jalfrezi, and two more were served.
• We went for Naan, Roti and other breads.
• There were two dals, makhani and fry.
• I went for rice rather than biryani.
• I also ordered for fussili with pasto tomato souce for pasta among varieties.

Finally we went for desserts and found ice-cream, chocolate and strawberry mousse, cake, and many others.

The experience was very similar to Barbeque Nation. Since it was financed by office, I didn't care for cost. I even dozed off on my desk when we reached office.

Shreya Ghoshal Solo Concert

I visited first of its kind Shreya Ghoshal Solo Concert in pune on 21 February.

Entertainment: We started from Aundh at around 5:45 PM and reached the Law College Ground at 6:15 PM. We had booked tickets from bookmyshow and physical tickets were issued to us there. There were seating arrangements and we were on the back side but I had carried my Zoom Lens SLR and a binocular. The organizer had also put projector screens for viewers seating on the back.


Shreya arrived half an hour late by around 7 PM and sang continuously for almost one hour. Then there was a break for around 45 mins and then she continued singing for one more hour. Many nice songs were sung by her including "Saaibo", "Sun raha hai na tu", "Yeh Ishq hai", etc... We were mesmerized by her voice.

Charges: There were four different tickets available ranging from INR 500 to INR 2000. We had bought INR 500 tickets for three of us.

All in all, it was a great Sunday evening.

Panchvati Gaurav - Bhandarkar Road

I visited Panchvati Gaurav last week with my office colleagues. I went there just to celebrate freshness of new year.

Food: There is no fixed menu of the restaurant since it offers only thali. The items in thali consist of two main varieties from regions of Gujarat and Rajasthan. We reached there around 1:15 PM. The restaurant has three branches in Pune and also in other cities like Nagpur, Nasik and Mumbai.

The thali has many varieties of items. The restaurant typically gives you Jaljira as welcome drink. Then after the main course is served. The thali included following items:

• Four types of sabjis: There was one green sabji mostly beans, one paneer and capsicum, one aaloo mutter and one pulses.
• Two types of farsan: Dhokla and Cutlet
• Two types of sweet: Mung Dal halwa and Angoor Rabri
• Roti
• Bajra Roti
• Masala Puri
• Dal (both mitha and tikha)
• Kadhi
• Rice or Veg Pulao
• Papad
• Pickle and Chutney
• Chhachh

You also get saunf/dhana dal at the end of meal as mouth freshner.

Charges: The restaurant charges INR 300 per thali. I found it reasonable compared to paying the same for Domino's Pizza.

The restaurant also offers facility of parcel where Half parcel costs around INR 400 which serves around 3 people if one of them is kid. I typically get half parcel for my family of three with a daughter of 7 years and it serves well. But they give only one with parcel, either dal or kadhi. So I take kadhi and then order extra dal to get both as part of my meal.

Chilli's - Phoenix Market City

I visited Chilli's restaurant in Phoenix Market City this week with one of my apartment neighbours. We also planned to watch movie "Bajirao Mastani" at PVR.

Entertainment: We started from aundh at 1:30 PM and reached Phoenix market city at around 2:15 PM. The movie started at around 2:30 PM and lasted till 5:45 PM. When we came out, the kids insisted on going to Fun City at the mall and enjoy the rides there.


There was a train too and kids boarded and took a round around the mall. There were rides in fun city including electric cars and some video games too. You have to take a INR 500 fun city card and then swipe it in different rides and games.

Food: We went to Chilli's restaurant whose menu is available here. We went for "Tripple Dipper" vegetarian starter where we got following three items:

• Fried Paneer Quesadilla Bites
• Texas Cheese Poppers
• Southwestern Rolls

This was a good starter and we liked it a lot so we ordered one more. For main course, we ordered following:

• Cilantro Pesto Pasta
• Cajun Pasta (upgraded to Shareable portion)
• Vegetarian Fajita
• One Mocktail

Charges: The total bill for all the above came to around INR 3440 which was a bit on higher side but we had already looked at the pricing before we went in. The food was good but not value for money.

Shahji's Paratha House - Apte Road

I took my new year lunch at Shahji's Parantha House, apte road in Pune. We went there to celebrate eating out in the new year of 2016.

Food: The menu of the restaurant is available here. The restaurant offers wide array of Paranthas which are served with chhole, veg salad, raita and dal makhani.

We ordered "Amritsari Naan" which is not listed on menu probably because it is the most famous of all dishes served at the restaurant. The second one we ordered were Paneer Parantha. We also ordered chhachh and gulab jamun. The two dishes were enough to fill stomach of three of us. 

Charges: The total bill came to around INR 698 which was reasonable considering the quality and quantity of food.