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Saturday, November 29, 2014

Chili's - The American way of eating... 

Like all good things, generally associated with America, Chili's is also a larger than life sort of experience.

One only needs to see their serving potions of  food to know how really larger than life they can be...

A good ambience, large screens to watch sports, and excellent service makes this a great place to dine out with family and friends and having visited the place twice over the past week I am in no doubt I will be going there often with friends.

A view from the floor above (the place is across 3 levels)

There are times when a place you visit often gives you great memories to retain.
It's then tough to re-associate that with something new (referring to the venue) 

Chili's is now also in Indiranagar.
For a guy who loves food as much as I do, one can't help but feel nostalgia when you visit an erstwhile place.

What Chili's managed to do was to trump that experience with great food and excellent service. Their cocktails are made to such perfection that one can't help but over indulge.

The bar on the top - excellent liquor collection


Over the week i headed out there with some friends which turned out to be a rather great strategy. What this helped us do is to not only try a great variety of their dishes which one can't resist but also do justice to the quantity.
Their portions are extremely large and if you go in as a couple you may struggle to finish your meal. The thing about eating out here is that you need to plan yourself a little.

As one friend suggested  its a great place to taste 2 dishes at a time of any combination as a couple and keep visiting frequently to try out their entire menu and i can tell you the menu is worth trying out indeed.


Being a group of 8 with large appetites we managed to try a lot but not enough. 

My fav dish was the boneless chicken wings. A great blend of spice and good taste, best part is it's boneless chicken.

Here is a variety of cocktails we tried with my favourites being the Mud Slide and the Spicy Mango custom made mocktail which my wife favours.  


The MUDSLIDE is the best I ever had and takes absolute skill to get it right. You will not be able to get this cocktail anywhere else that tastes as goo here. It was so good, I had to take a sip before I could take a click.

Mudslide

Spicy Mango mocktail - custom made for us

The Tripple sipper with Chicken wings, boneless wings and cheese balls. The 3 different sauces add a good flavour


What I missed is that they dint have a pizza on the menu but they do make up for it with this nacho and cheese based starter - also known as Classic Nachos.



We stuck to Pasta and Burger bites for main courses although I did try the Blackened Salmon which I was advise was extra salty and it indeed was and hence dint suit my palette.  Again the portion of the pasta was immense for 1 person to complete. 


No GOOD meal can be rounded off without dessert and hence we tried the Molten Chocolate cake and the ChocolateChip Paradise Pie. 



FINAL VERDICT - This is a must visit place not just once but multiple times over if you looking at having great food and a good dining experience.



Monday, October 20, 2014

My Experience with Honda and the #AmazeLongestDrive



Imagine a car built, not just for its Looks or its Styling.

Not just for Endurance or Performance.

 Not for Speed or Mileage.

But a car built to do what a car must do. DELIGHT you while you travel, yet not burn a hole in your pocket.

 A car made to take the hits and bumps. A car made to take the heat that’s India’s Summer. Yet enjoy the cool winter’s breeze that’s sweeps across our beautiful country.

As a friend of mine who drove the Amaze said, it is so smooth a car and so easy to drive and navigate on narrow and crowded Indian streets, it felt like I was controlling it with my mind more than my hands.

Yes folks, that indeed is how the Honda Amaze really is. The name does not let you look for adjectives beyond itself. A drive in this car, will truly leave you AMAZED.

To take their point further – Honda is Driving the Amaze across the length and breadth of India to showcase its superiority in every aspect.

1 Amaze car. 250 towns in India. Over 23000 kms.


What more does one need to fully appreciate how well this car has been designed and built.

The Amaze Longest drive is an initiative by Honda to showcase not just the performance and quality of the car but also help bring into focus the amazing experience one will get when they traverse across the roads India.
 Yes it also highlights the infrastructure problems we have but what it does most is inspire you to get in your car and plan that road trip you are always thinking about but have never done.

Go see India in a way you never imagined, all in the comfort and safety of the high performing Amaze.

Click here for details on the Amaze Longest drive - http://amazelongestdrive.com/ 

Bunny Punia taking us through his experiences
I had the opportunity to interact with Bunny Punia, the man behind the wheel for this amazing journey and he had nothing but praise for the Amaze and its capabilities. This past weekend the #AmazeLongestDrive reached Bangalore and we were invited not just to meet and greet Bunny’s team as well as some happy customers but we also got a chance to drive around the Amaze in Bangalore and feel for ourselves first hand, the sheer comfort of driving this car.

Driving the Amaze


As a car enthusiast who has driven cars of almost every make, including automatic gear shifts, I can tell you, that the ease of driving this on Indian roads is uncomparable. We took it for a long drive through Bangalore traffic to simulate as real life conditions as possible and the feeling at the end was that nobody wanted to get out of car and wanted the drive to just go on and on and on to maybe another 23000 kms.


#AmazeLongestDrive


One set of interesting stats – The Amaze is Honda’s fastest car to reach over 1 lakh units and has more awards then one can count on your fingers.
Click here to see some stunning pictures of India as taken by the Amaze team on the 


There are also some pictures from our meet that show cases how much fun we had at the event and look forward to more interactions with Bunny and his team.
The audience having a good time

RJ Rapid Rashmi waiting to engage the audience 

Bunny in the Amaze


The Amaze being flagged off


And lastly, waiting to send more time in the drivers seat in the Amaze J