Paradise vs Paradise

(Not clicked by ME)




One of the weekends Paritosh, Hitesh(both are my cybage frnds) and me planned to do some shopping at Secunderabad. We boarded 10H Secunderabad bus. On reaching Secunderabad market we did some pearl shopping …yes you are right this is first time I was doing ladies shopping. After shopping for an hour or two we were damn hungry. So my friends suggested having lunch at Paradise Hotel. I heard a lot from them about Paradise and the Non-Veg delicacies they server. Before coming to Hyderabad, Hyderabad's synonym for me was just Hyderabadi Biryani. This was my time to taste those hot spices and flesh.
In no time we were standing in front of Paradise hotel. It was 2 or 3 pm, we were perspiring and the place was heavily crowded. We were greeted by brief security check by a hulk (who looked like a disc bouncer). Inside picture was very different, infrastructure looked like Irani hotels. Place was so crowed that if you want to sit and eat…then you will have to hunt for a table. This is not a place where you can go with family. There were already people standing next to each table waiting eagerly for others to finish. Everyone hungry and mad to grab a table. So we decided that each of us will stand next to different table and the one who gets the table first we all will sit there.
Finally we got one table but our plan didn’t work well. Any ways we were sitting side by side rubbing shoulders. The menu was meat heavy, evident of the cuisine’s Hyderabadi influences and leaving very few options for Vegetarians. We didn’t have much idea about the quantity of food will be served in a dish. So we went on the waiter’s recommendations and ordered one Chicken curry, few Rotis and decided to split seductive Chicken Biryani(120/-) dish in two. In 10-15 mins we got our order. It was vibrant, it was alive and it was startling. Biryani was more than what I hoped for. Curry looked thick and spicy. Roties were flakier and much bigger than what we get in Pune. Biryani rice is an inch long and of very good quality. Chicken was juicy, fresh and spongy…hummmmmmmm this is proper fresh chicken echoed in my mind. Well after filling our appetite for Hyderabadi Chicken we returned home.

After few weeks it was the second time I was going to have Chicken. After days work we(Paritosh, Hitesh and I) had a brief walk to Paradise, but this was their branch in Hitech city. It’s a sized two-tier dining area. Ground floor for take way, 1st tier for A/C dinning and terrace for open air dinning. Now this is the place where you can take date or family. We were greeted by handsomely dresses doorman. It is a place that cares about details. No sooner had we taken our seats than our over-enthusiastic waiter was describing each and every chicken dishes in rapid succession. Even this time we had Chicken Biryani, but it’s heavy on pocket cause same Chicken Biryani here costs 175/- and a lil less quantity. However the amazing taste and quality was maintained. A feature of Hyderabadi cuisine is that it is often slow cooked, so perhaps a certain time-honed tenderness comes naturally to the kitchen. Either way, it translates into a cosy, comforting spot for a spectacular evening curry.