All you can eat

Restaurants across the city are offering a host of vegetarian dishes in their buffet options

If any of your relative or friends say that vegetarian food lacks choices and options, you could direct them to the buffet menu of multiple restaurants in the city. Samir Mojumdar, manager of Barbeque Nation at Lido mall says, “We have a live grill concept with five types of vegetarian starters.

He shares that, “Our main course includes five types of salads with dal, vegetarian gravy, rice, different types of breads with 10 varieties of deserts including cakes, pastries, puddings, fresh fruits, halwa, hot gulab jamun, brownie with ice-cream, toppings and other sweet dishes”.

“We serve chats, samosas, Chinese and Gujarati cuisine in our lunch and dinner buffet menu,” says an employee of Village restaurant located at Sarjapur Road. “The restaurant is based on a village theme where we arrange puppet show and dandiya performances. The rates of buffet ranges between Rs 349 to Rs 399 in weekdays and weekends.” .

A manager from Sanjeevanam restaurant says, “We serve five types of special juices, four types of fresh vegetables, four types of semi-cooked vegetables and lunch. ” He adds, “White sugar, maida, food colour and preservatives are not used in our food. Shivram from Chutney Chang Bangalore says, “We offer 20 varieties of sweet dishes and our vegetarian steam momos are liked . Raghuvendra from Konark restaurant, Residency Road says, “We serve only vegetarian food with weekend special menu for our lunch buffet which has an extra soup, starter and extra cake item in dessert.”

Selling like hot cakes

People are picking up merchandise of their favourite sides from the World Cup

With football fever raging across the country, merchandise comprising of jerseys of the top teams participating in the World Cup in Brazil has made its way to the streets of Bangalore. Surya manages a merchandise store in Brigade road. He says, “We sell football jerseys of all teams . Our collection includes round neck t-shirt style and collar neck jerseys priced between Rs 699 and Rs 3,000”.

Ricky, one of the store clerks at the Nike outlet says, “We sell polyester skin-friendly jerseys. Though it is a little expensive, many of our customers do not mind spending money on these jerseys.”

Wasim, another store clerk at the Nike showroom says, “People are picking up football merchandise on a large scale. Brazil jerseys are selling like hot cakes.”

Ajay Kumar, a sales clerk at the Puma outlet at Garuda Mall says, “This store only sells the Italian team collection. An Italian team jersey costs nearly Rs. 5,000. We are running out of stock with some sizes.”

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