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From the first of a series of three trips that I made within a week to The Village Shop |
I finally went back to the The Village Shop a couple of weeks back and then tried to make up for lost time by going back twice more later that week.
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Kheema, akoori, hot chocolate, breakfast no 2 at The Village Shop |
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The Village Shop from outside |
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Leaves you with a cozy feeling |
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Southern sunrise or thick dal dosa or adai |
The dosas are chubby and soft in the middle and slightly crisp at the periphery. The dal based batter used for it make the dosas taste distinctively different from that of the thin & crisp rice and dal based dosas served in Udupi restaurants here. The dosas tasted wholesome and flavoursome and filled you up. The dosas were made in the open kitchen behind the cash counter and were brought straight to the table once read. There was a delicious tongue tickling onion chutney served with the dosa.
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Akoori at The village Shop |
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Kheema with wholewheat pav at The Village Shop |
3. Mince me (Kheema):
I had once heard that the goat meat in India has a larger chance of being organic in comparison to the anti-biotic chicken that we get these days.
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The sloppy shroom vegan sandwich that won our hearts |
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The hot chocolate at The Village Shop is the stuff legends are made of |
7. Hot chocolate:
The drink was not overtly sweet and was just perfect for dark chocolate lovers. The hot chocolate was served hot. No, this is not as funny as it sounds. The Starbucks dark chocolate hot chocolate for example, which is fairly nice, is often not served piping hot.
The consistency was just right, not watery, nor too thick. I think that the hot chocolate that I had at The Village Shop is one of the best in town and can hold its head high when compared with those in Europe too.
Some of the other good things that we tried here are the date and chocolate health balls that I picked for k after my first visit and the lemon and ginger teas. They have an array of meals too such as Indian curries and stews and western pastas and pizzas and I am keen to try them too. They don’t use processed sugar in any of their dishes. Sweetening, when required, is done with jaggery.
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My first visit which enticed me to return soon |
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A place for foodies |
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With Javed Malik |