(A review on Gallopin’ Gooseberry, Besant Nagar)Being laconic has never been my forte, nonetheless, I’ll refrain from turning too verbose. All one needs to discover a brilliant eatery is (i) A vacant Saturday and (ii) The craving to eat something really good, something that not only satisfies one’s taste buds and appetite but also the heart, the soul or may be the intellect. What I mean is the sense of absolute satisfaction that comes from doing something that one hasn’t in a really long time or never.
Gallopin’ Gooseberry is perched neatly on the 1st floor of #2, 2nd Avenue, Besant Nagar, Chennai 600090. However, that address didn’t help me find it. I’ll put it in this manner, it’s just around the first right corner on the 2nd Avenue. Encased in glass walls covered with straw mats to prevent in sunlight during the day and pulled up in the evening to let one look down at the busy traffic laden 2nd Avenue, it offers an ambience too cosy for a burger place or maybe it’s the Italian effect. Let’s say it could be the perfect burger-date place. The place is small, not seating more than 20 at a time which makes it a peaceful and personal dining, naah, gorging experience.
The menu is laden with burgers, sandwiches, soups, pasta and lasagne, all very reasonably priced. It might sound huge for a place as small as this. Being my first time at GG (I’d do with calling it that), I chose to keep it simple and tried something very basic – ‘The Classic Burger’ – and a Coke. The service took a comfortable 15 minutes, might sound too much for a burger place, but GG isn’t a huge retail outlet, instead imagine every burger to be custom-made taking into consideration the diner’s, naah, gorger’s disposition that the place seemed to read. The burger is huge, holding it between my hands made me feel like an 8 year old at McDonald’s. It’s so difficult to get a bite off it and keep your hands from getting all messy. It had been ages since I had a burger like a child with the mayo and ketchup dripping down my front. It was a burger true to its name, ‘Classic’.
One big lesson that I learnt at GG was that before I decide to go for the coke and the fries, I’d finish my burger up. The burger is so huge that it doesn’t leave an appetite for anything else. The maitre’d was very hospitable and helpful with suggestions but not of the sort that would hover over one either. One has enough privacy. They also home-deliver. It’s not just another money minting business but a place that has a soul and thought process of its own, desirous of providing one with a satisfying hogging experience. And I am already looking forward to my next visit to the place.
(Acknowledgments: Thank you, Nilay, for leading me to the place.)
Gallopin’ Gooseberry is perched neatly on the 1st floor of #2, 2nd Avenue, Besant Nagar, Chennai 600090. However, that address didn’t help me find it. I’ll put it in this manner, it’s just around the first right corner on the 2nd Avenue. Encased in glass walls covered with straw mats to prevent in sunlight during the day and pulled up in the evening to let one look down at the busy traffic laden 2nd Avenue, it offers an ambience too cosy for a burger place or maybe it’s the Italian effect. Let’s say it could be the perfect burger-date place. The place is small, not seating more than 20 at a time which makes it a peaceful and personal dining, naah, gorging experience.
The menu is laden with burgers, sandwiches, soups, pasta and lasagne, all very reasonably priced. It might sound huge for a place as small as this. Being my first time at GG (I’d do with calling it that), I chose to keep it simple and tried something very basic – ‘The Classic Burger’ – and a Coke. The service took a comfortable 15 minutes, might sound too much for a burger place, but GG isn’t a huge retail outlet, instead imagine every burger to be custom-made taking into consideration the diner’s, naah, gorger’s disposition that the place seemed to read. The burger is huge, holding it between my hands made me feel like an 8 year old at McDonald’s. It’s so difficult to get a bite off it and keep your hands from getting all messy. It had been ages since I had a burger like a child with the mayo and ketchup dripping down my front. It was a burger true to its name, ‘Classic’.
One big lesson that I learnt at GG was that before I decide to go for the coke and the fries, I’d finish my burger up. The burger is so huge that it doesn’t leave an appetite for anything else. The maitre’d was very hospitable and helpful with suggestions but not of the sort that would hover over one either. One has enough privacy. They also home-deliver. It’s not just another money minting business but a place that has a soul and thought process of its own, desirous of providing one with a satisfying hogging experience. And I am already looking forward to my next visit to the place.
(Acknowledgments: Thank you, Nilay, for leading me to the place.)
2 comments:
Nice story...i think the burger succeeded in achieving 2 things at the same time:
1- the heed you paid to it;and,
2- bringing out the long hidden child in you. :)
Nice read. Thanks for sharing.
@Himadri: Hey dude! Thanks for reading and leaving a comment. How's life btw?
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