On Jan 17, 2008 9:12 AM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...]
> Rangis is, according to people who went there not too long ago, going down > the dumps. > > Palimar, in Parsn's Manor (on Mount Road, near the fly-over. Entrance is > from NH Road, near Park) is a great place for lunch. They went through a > renovation 2 years ago, and looking very chic. But it's a veg place. As a Madrasi in exile I exercise my right to contribute to this thread. Palimar is a dump, even if you put lipstick on it. There was a time, circa the advent of color television when Palimar was the-place-to-be because they were one of the first restaurants to have color TVs in full view of every table. And mind you, if they were showing the monopoly State-run TV there would be no one around for miles, instead they ran tapes of imported cartoons and other mindless stuff. There were people so lost in the programming that they were actually calling for the volume to be turned up, and not complaining one bit about the food. TV became old, satellite channels offered a denied public their heart's fill of mindless entertainment, and people started noticing the food for the first time in Palimar's history. It was all down hill from there. I had lunch at Palimar II (the renovated avtar) and I was distinctly unimpressed. Thankfully I still find my favorite places are intact - the drive-in Woodlands, the Narada Ghana Sabha Woodlands, Benjarong, Liu's Waldorf - to name a few. Are there any worth adding to that list? I'll poke an ice pick into the eye of the first one that mentions Saravana Bhavan. Cheeni
