Barbeque Nation, Bandstand and laughter

Meeting some people is a pleasure, come what may. It was one such night yesterday, when I got out of the house - to meet people that is - after a long time, in fact for the first time after recovering from the illness. And meeting up the Mastek gang, gave the same feeling as one gets on seeing a hot knife go through butter....smooth! That it was fun, would be an understatement.

The place we dined was a restaurant that went by the name of Barbeque Nation. It has a very rudimentary, but reasonably useful website here. It basically is a tikka place which has tables fitted with tandoor. The tikkas are put on the tandoor by the BN guys, and get slowly roasted. One can have them as and when one needs them. And the variety is fascinating. One can sit and relax and talk over, not coffee, but tandoor! The tikkas are unlimited and then comes a buffet of dinner. This is followed by the dessert - gulab jamuns for me - which all costs a total of Rs. 500 + taxes. Not very economical, but when you talkng about six of you, laughing away to glory at virtually everything - or probably nothing - reminiscing those ol' days, sitting there for three hours, it works out okay.

Incidentally, this is in Bandra, and when one talks Bandra, one definitely looks at paying Bandstand our respects :-) So, we drove down to BS, had a coffee each - after such a heavy meal, I could not - and sat there, cotinuing to talk gibberish but yet, have a hearty laugh. So the topics varied from who sat on which desk at Mastek, to how many strands of hair remained on the PM's head when we left the company to whch bigshot got fired by whom! And each of these lines were interspersed with incessant laughter, which, as I look back, was barely necessary! But then, not everytime do you are with people you really enjoy being with, ain't it!?

Cheers to a great evening :-)