Upper Crust

I had a dream. A very happy one. I dreamt that I wore a belt and I could use one of the real holes, not one of the fake ones I got the local mochi to poke into them.

I dreamt that I had to shop for a whole new wardrobe because I couldnt fit into my old clothes. And I was happy.

But this was the mere culmination of the dream. What went before was even more blissful. It was the Reason, the Cause, the Root.

I dreamt that for a whole year, I ate dinner at Upper Crust *everyday*. And that ladies and gentlemen, is a summary of this foodie place - I could go there everyday.

They serve sizzlers, stake and baked stuff. And it is good. For veggies, someone recommended the potpourri. I have no idea how it tastes for I was too busy stuffing myself with chicken and cheese.

Oh! The Cheese! Mountains of it!

Anhow, I think you get the idea. Definitely among the top 2 restaurants I've come across in Ahmedabad.

Cribs
1. Damn waiters wore some shiny green apron. Seriously.
2. Need to wait to get a table.

Pluses
1. They gave me cake! For Free! It was a spongy chocolatey cake! :-D

Numbers
Price: 3 Average (~ 300 per head)
Value for money: 3
Taste: 4 (Starters 2, Main course 4, Desserts 3, Free Cake 5)
Waiters & Staff: 2 (Shiny green? Seriously?)
Drinks: 0 (They have mocktails :-/)

How to get there
Take a rick, ask for Binay Chaar Rasta, Upper Crust is quite close to Chocolate Room.

Overall
2 thumbs up :-) I will go there again.

Amdavad Food Reviews (AFR)

This blog is very much like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - long dead and spinning in its grave, this not due to modern pop music, but 'cos it's completely embarrassed by our feeble attempts to resurrect it once every two years with a phoenix-like post.

The underlying problem is this: Gidwani is Lazy as Hell and I'm just a sucky writer who wouldn't wanna bring down the elite quality of previous posts (altough small in number (thanks to the aforementioned laziness)) down.

So we reach an impasse: A blog that treads the fine line between dead and comatose.

Incedentally, I'm now also faced with a problem - I don't know of places to go to for dinner in this city where every place is exactly Rs. 20 by auto away from every other place. Verily, the designers Designers of Ahmedabad were ofcourse Serious Mathematicians.

So I was thinking that everytime I do visit a new place here, I should make a note of it. A log or journal even. Hence the idea of "Amdavad Food Reviews". And given that the name of this blog is Contri Dinner, it's perfect, with an almost was-destined-to-be aura!

Watch out for a review of Upper Crust soon. Signing off, hoping that this isn't one of those yearly phoenixy posts.

Life.

Saurabh Das eats dirt and gets paid for it.

Mohit Gidwani plans to eat huge amounts of dirt, and hopes to get paid huge money for it.

This is what life has come to.

Caffeine

Caffeine: The Elixir of Life, Celestial Nectar, Mankind's Gift.

Did you know that 10 grams of caffeine could kill you? This amount is found in about 100 cups of coffee. So the moral here is: Never drink more than 100 cups of coffee at a go!

But that brings us to: How do we consume coffee?

In our endless experiments, we have had certain revelations. In particular are two forms of this Celestial Elixir that can keep almost anyone awake for a day or two. It is rumored (read "we like to believe") that the prince who kissed Sleeping Beauty had consumed one of our special brews before kissing her, and the vapours she inhaled while osculating woke her up. The rest, as they say, is history.

Here, we share the secret to our greatness, omniscience and glory. Bow down, mere mortals as we reveal to you, the recipes for Supercharged Coffee and Turbocharged Coffee.

• Supercharged Coffee
  1. Take Coffee.
      1a. If coffee is not available, make some coffee by adding instant coffee and sugar to milk.
  2. Add some more sugar to it.
  3. Add a little more sugar to it.
  4. Just a little more.
  5. Yeah, just a bit more...
  6. Almost there... a teeny-weeny bit of sugar more.
  7. NO, DO NOT ADD MORE MILK OR WATER.
  8. Final Touch: Add a bit more sugar.
  
  A Perfect Brew of Supercharged coffee is ready! Sip, and enjoy the extreme sweetness. Feel that perfect bit of sugar rushing through your veins, dilating the blood vessels inside your brain, delivering that much needed extra bit of oxygen to grey cells, enchanting the world around you in a psychedelic frenzy. A rather nice 'trip' one might say...



• Turbocharged Coffee
  Take coffee, add coffee, add sugar, ad infinitum.
  When infinity is all done with and gone by, drink.
  
  Feel Bliss.
  With a capital B.

Food, or something like that

Hello, and welcome to curse yourself for reaching this place called Contri Dinner. Nothing to do with having a country for food. Rather, more to do with everything else.

Also, for having a country for dinner once in a while.

I and this fellow have opened up this place to create a synergy of our thoughts while we are online and not scheming to blow up the world.

Also, to continue scheming to blow up the world while we are online.

If you don't have anything better to do and keep visiting this place, you'll keep knowing more and more about less and less. We will talk about food, Calvin and Hobbes, H2G2, how macs are better than PC's, beer, vodka, The Green Fairy, and a lot more.

Also, deals in death and destruction will be discussed.

So will be alliteration. Now, if you don't know what alliteration means, just go look it up in a dictionary and come back. Taking into account your resourcefulness and ours (or rather the lack of it), we will have a new post for dinner, served fresh for you, and paid in contri, obviously!!

Food for thought, ain't it!!