Pizza Corner (let me call it PC) has a new offering – “Pizza with Rice”

It gets you all excited… Pizza with Rice… Rs. 69 only... blah blah blah

You go there, stomach grumbling, taste buds eager (I went to PC, Abiramapuram). And you’re in for deep disappointment (Knew this line was coming, didn’t you?). You discover that PC has pulled the worst trick on you.

“Pizza with Rice” is actually a few vegetables tossed together with what looked to me like a local variety of rice… and they serve such a huge amount that it leaves you groaning (sarcasm).

At Abiramapuram Pizza Corner, this masterpiece of a dish arrives at my table 25 minutes after I order it. And only 3 tables are occupied in the whole place. On top of that the waiter who attends to me has a smile that reminds me of a lecherous ex-colleague.

They didn’t even have the courtesy to give me a glass of water. I tell you – I wanted to ask him if he didn’t have water there. Unfortunately I am a loyal (laugh, laugh :) ) customer as I am a fan of their pasta and desserts. Who knows, if I ask such questions, I might be given horrid food, or the chef might add too many chillies which would make me scream for water (and which they would probably say they don’t have), or worse, I might be banned. But I can’t take the risk. I need to have the pasta once in a few weeks.

So this bullshit, plus what we pay for their air-conditioning, also for the water he didn’t give me, a view of Indian bank from a corner table and stinging in the eyes caused by some crap they do with chillies in their kitchen (I bet every customer at PC Abiramapuram will experience this... during every alternate visit) – all this amounts to Rs. 69, they think.

I can say – the food amounts to Rs. 15-20 max. I also have to kick the cook’s ass – both for the food and his chilli experiments. And bash up the waiters… or one good screaming and yelling session might be worth my money. But I would probably be thrown out unceremoniously.

I swear… PC will have a million people complaining about that Pizza with Rice crap. Who do they think will order this for that price and eat? Foreigners maybe, because they would want to try rice. Or stupid snobs who think its cool to blow money on rice when they can eat tastier rice at home. This food doesn’t even match the taste of the oily Szechwan (purely Indian taste) fried rice I ate at a small wannabe Punju dhaba in Velachery.

I wrote this after a friend told me to blog on things like restaurants etc. – things which would interest many. And look what came out. I simply couldn’t say anything positive about that rice. I have to write something about the pasta and the desserts.