Eden Park, Bangalore

My Mr. B gets really excited when somebody raves about a place. Once it gets onto his head, he has got to check it out. Now similar thing happened with this place called 'Eden Park'. It has a bar and restaurant attached.
21/1,Cunningham Road,Behind Indian Express, Cunningham Road, Bangalore, 560052, India+91 80 22861100

The address sounds very simple, but we literally had to spend around an hour or so to get to Cunningham road and then another half hour or so to figure out where exactly the place was. If you are really familiar with the roads of Bangalore then shouldnt be a problem at all (I guess!).

Keeping in mind the unpredictable Bangalore traffic, we started at around 11:30 am from home. We stay in BTM layout so the best way we could figure out from our-very-handy eicher map was to go to Cubbon Road first.
Hosur Road -> St. Marks Road -> Keep going straight until you get MG road which is perpendicular to Marks Road -> Keep going straight and make a left at Cubbon Road -> The road eventually becomes Raj Bhavan Road .

**Raj Bhavan Road was choked. We were stuck there for around 15-30 minutes.

From here one needs to figure out how to reach Cunningham Road because most of the roads are one-ways. So we went something like this.

Raj Bhavan Road -> Made a right at Palace Raod -> Made a right at Cunningham Road. Kept going straight until we couldnt go straight anymore on this road. SO made a right and then left into one of those residential areas and parked our car. Walked to Cunningham road which was one way. Lot of Reliance outlets on this road.

The restaurant is very inconspicous. It stands behind the Indian Express building at the end of the road. The best bet is to ask for Indian Express building rather than the restaurant one you get there.

So finally we walked our way (literally) to the restaurant. Went straight to the Non A/C section where they serve only meals ( Thats what I thought!). Because we were not give any menu so we went ahead and ordered for two vegetarian meals.

Banana leaves were already set on the table. Cleaned the leaf with some water and wiped the excess with some tissues (always advisable). There were some dried/fried chillies (andhra style) but I found them stale. Asked Mr. B not to have any of those which I guess disappointed him becuase he loves them.

Came the rice, followed by dal, one dry curry (which was spicy), one gravy, papad, chutney. Then came the sambhar (which I thought was yummy!), rasam (spicy again with lot of oil), curd and butter milk.

Service was good but I would say not great because we had to literally raise our hands like little kids do in school to get the attention of the servers. No complaints but. Each mean costs around 75 rupees.

Overall good authentic Andhra Food. Wouldnt call it a must-try-restaurant. There are better ones in Bangalore which are much easier to access and serve much better food. So if you are a little adventurous like Mr. B to check out new places raved by his friends, then you have no other go but to follow him!

**** For all those who donot know who Mr. B is - Its my Better Half!

Fists of Fury

Why do people fight? Why do people get angry? How does cone loses his/her cool? Is there anybody who never fights?

Well, my reason for writing this blog is (oh-you-guessed-it-right!) FIGHT!
Of late I have been throwing tantrums like crazy. Getting angry ever so often. But people who know me think(not including close family - including parents, husband, sister) I would never fight with anybody. 'Dikhaave par mat jaaao, apni akal lagaaao'.

People on whom we get angry is of course people with whom you have been staying with , spending most of your time with or could be someone you are very close to. Now, I am kind of a person who expresses happiness/anger with only the above mentioned category of people. I am very very complacent with people who fall out of this bracket.

So obviously the wrath always falls on Mr. B (my better half!) because he is the one who falls in all the three major categories - I am staying with him, very close to him, spend most of my time with him. Sometimes I feel so sorry for him to be going through all this - bearing my silly tantrums. I have read in various articles quoting that the best way to overcome anger/frustration is to vent it out. So thats what I do! But I do feel guilty about doing so but then I need to vent it out to feel normal again.

Mind is so complicated. Complicated than anybody or anything!

Some common reasons why I get angry (lets see if you match any of these with yours?) -

• I am telling you something so listen to it howmuchever busy you are.
• Ask me how was my day at work without fail everyday.
• If I dont want to cook, please offer to take me out.
• Dont dump all the good clothes in the washing machine, they might lose their texture.
• Please allow me to iron my cotton dresses - I dont like to wear crumpled clothes
• Let me iron your cotton shirts too
• Leave the kitchen to me
• Leave grocery shopping to me

Mr B is such a darling that he never ever lets me do anything which he can do himself, but still it pisses me off.

I dont want to get angry but sometimes cannot control my emotions at all.

More updates later.