Bangalore and Back - Day 2

One of the plans we had made was to visit the bookstores in Bangalore, more specifically Blossoms which keeps coming up in every single conversation with people in Bangalore. So Ugadi day was dedicated to Blossoms and lunch around Blossoms. The day began on a leisurely note and after partaking some heavenly coffee that Prarthana made (and served full filter kaapi style with steel glass in that steel vessel). Prarthana had recently gone to Chikmagalur and she got some Jayanthi Coffee back.

Off to find biryani and books

 An avowed coffee drinker and chef extraordinaire, she makes the entire house fill up with the aroma of coffee - just right and just enough to whet up your desire. We followed that up with paddu, some small idli like items which were delicious and went well with chutney. I got some work done before 1145 which was the deadline and we all headed out. Raja and Anjali played some karaoke.

Blossoms Pic courtesy Prarthana

I called Vandana, Nisha and Rajesh and invited them to join us for biryani at Thalapakatti on Brigades. Vandana, a die hard biryani eater, said she would be there come hell or high water. Nisha said she would join for coffee after. The plan seemed to be like this - Metro to MG Road, walk to Thalapakatti which is a five minute walk away, eat biryani and get back to Blossoms which is two minutes away and after book shopping, go to India Coffee Shop for some late afternoon coffee.

Thalapakatti

Waiting for the food to arrive

Plans went as per plan and we got off at MG Road and found Blossoms right in before us. We headed off to Thalapakatti and ordered some of their famed biryanis and starters - all of which were superb.

Church Street behind us

No sign of Vandana which was as expected and she called just when we were leaving and said she got delayed. She'll call when she gets here. 

Biryani Pic Prarthana

Blossoms was overwhelming with the sheer number of books on display. I found myself in front of a section which had many Penthouse Letters books and was tempted to pick up a couple. The girls meanwhile picked up basketfuls of books - thirty between them. I was actually glad to get Vandana's call and headed out there with Raja and sat with her while she relished the biryani. 

Checking out from Blossoms

We wanted to complete the Hyderabadi experience and found a nice paan shop and put paan. Back to Blossoms and bought books and lugged them out. We found that the India Coffee House was shut on account of Ugadi and walked down the road until we hit Museum Road. 

RCB Cafe

There we found this cute roadside cafe called RCB cafe which served nice coffee and cold coffee etc. We sat and chatted there and at five, decided to head home. We took a cab this time and got home.

Some stuff Vandana ordered

Karaoke, a drink, dosa and chicken fry by Prarthana and the day ended brilliantly, running late into the night. Once again I fell asleep soon as I hit the bed. Now, how to carry all those books back to Hyderabad tomorrow is the question.