Star hotels or Our local Restaurant??????

Hey I finally entered into the blog world. This is my first blog and it can be crappy. It can make least sense. I just wanted to share some experiences. This post is out of my personal experience.

When i was about 13 yrs old i always had a fascination for Star hotels (well who wouldn’t have?).I was living in Coimbatore till about age of 18.There were just 2 to 3 star hotels and frankly speaking i have never visited any of these hotels.When i joined an Infrastructure Company after 4 years of engineering, i was asked to attend an official meeting in a famous star hotel for 3 days. They arranged coffee with cookies (yummy!!) in the mornings and a buffet lunch in afternoon. God i pinched my hand coz i really couldn’t believe myself. There were parathas,pulav,noodles,desserts( am a big food lover). Ambiance was excellent. Coming to the hospitality part , they treat you like a Celebrity no matter wat you are.

It is a fact that if something keeps repeating in your life it bores you finally. Happening wit me now. Excitement lasted only for few days. I frequent those hotels so such an extent that i can remember the standard menu they offer in buffet. Ya there is always a pulav(Kashmiri,jeera,veggie are some standard pulavs available), there are rotis, rice, sambar & rasam(sometimes),CAULIFLOWER FRY(comes in various forms and names which bores me the most) is never missed out. Non veg dishes just two. They surely have this combo - fish and chicken or fish and mutton(don’t eat though).I tell my mother "ma i seriously wanna take a break” and ask her to keep curd rice for next one week for lunch, after having food in those hotels.

Few points that happens/can happen when you visit a star hotel for the first time in your life.(strictly for ppl who do not/cannot spend out of their pocket and goes for a treat organized by his/her friends)

1. Menu card first sounds Greek and Latin. If you don’t know anything you gotto sit blank and eat something crappy.if you are veggie then you are done.(safe to have atleast one person in the group who has some knowledge about the items in the menu card)Otherwise you end up ordering the same dosa and vada for which you spend 10rs outside and 1000 bucks here(makes no sense) because you are here to order something new. The following are few categories of ppl (when it comes to ordering )
a. some ppl think they know everything and mess.
b. some hesitate to ask the waiter and blink to finally settle with dosa or some form of it.
c. some take risk.
d. some try to impressively ask the waiter coz they don’t like to take chance.
I fall under category (a)
2. You act like you know table etiquette ( i swear you wont even know where a soup spoon is and which hand to use for fork).
3. Have to be so conscious about yourself. This is a place where you cannot be yourself (atleast to some extend).
4. Sit inside your wardrobe to find the best possible dress you can wear / start planning from the previous day.
5. You won’t realize that a cloth usually kept near every seat on a table is for you to put on ur lap. Some simply think that, it is for a decoration purpose.
6. Can’t fiddle with cutlery coz if it happens to fall down then the whole crowd turns back to notice you.(atlst once, your cutlery falls down and you blink like a fool).
7. Watch your step.(But how much ever you watch, you will surely trip or fall down).
8. Open an EVION mineral bottle on ur table, without even realizing the fact that it costs 150 bucks and gulp the entire water in it. Finally when the bill is out, ur friend is mad at you.
9. .Above all, you make a fool of yourself.

The above mentioned things have happened to me atleast a 2-3 times. First time i felt bad. Things changed after it happened the second time and now i don’t care.

The above mentioned things are just a choice and it is not mandatory in normal hotels. So i prefer having a good time without much strain. After all you go there to fill up ur stomach...is it not a valid point? Some nice quality restaurant would do.

I make sure that i mostly keep away from it because it is surely not of my level(barring my official visits).wen my friends treat me, i will be the first to raise my hand to say NO to star hotels. Rather ask them to treat me in any hotel that offers decent South Indian food and kaiyyendi bavans makes a lot of sense to people like me.