A Treat To Remember

22nd was the birthday of Sandip. On coming 27th, Barrel will turn a year older. They decided to give their birthday treats together. 22nd was decided to be the date and the venue was to be a plush restaurant called ‘SATHEE’ in Khadki.
We, 10 in all, started enthusiastically at about quarter past 8 in the night from our hostel for Sathee. It’s almost 2-3 Kms away and we reached there in about half an hour to find it CLOSED!!! We suddenly became clueless about what to do next. Here we were joined by Naren da. On his suggestion we decided to head for Aundh about a few Kms away.
We hopped into a bus, and after walking a further 2 Kms found out that the Non-Veg restaurants were closed. A hungry tension was brewing up among us. It was almost 10 in the night with shops closed on both sides of the road. We had walked quite a lot and had neither seen any sign of food nor were sure about seeing either.
Just then we came across two restaurants with signboards indicating the magical sign, ‘OPEN’. Here we were thinking whether we will get food at all and now we had two choices in ‘KOBE’ and ‘TAREEF’. We opted for the latter. The owner was an affable man and had a chaste English accent. Seeing our large entourage, he asked for 40 minutes to set up a table especially for us. We had no other options so we waited and were entertained with a glass of Jaljeera courtesy the owner. This generous act of his bound us morally there { Hunger, Lack of interest in adventuring again and Tiredness being the other factors actually !!! }.
In about 50 minutes, we were at the dinner table but the insatiable hunger had subsided. We had a decent meal and then promptly started our march back to the hostel. On the way back we had the dessert, Mastani. After a long walk, we reached back at about half past one.
Of the five and a half hours, we actually spent only three quarters of an hour in eating and rest was spent in travelling!!!
This is going to be one treat to remember and will be etched in our memories for years to come!!!
Jug Jug Jiyo Sandip aur Barrel !!!