Hi, Everyone!
Have you ever thought that you can fall in love with a place just by entering into it? Ok, I might sound similar here, as I have said a similar thing for some other places too. But what to do I have a big heart and I keep falling in love with the places I feel worth loving and connecting to me in some way.
But this place is different than every other place. This place is really special and has a really deep and touching and inspiring story behind this place. Well, I’m talking about Bombay to Barcelona Library Café in Marol Naka, Mumbai. I wasn’t aware of this place until last weekend when my friend took me there. Located at the walkable distance from Marol Naka Metro station, this place is run by all street kids (youngsters) who serve, cook and manage the restaurant all by themselves.
Amin Sheikh, who came up with the idea of this café has a very deep story behind his life and about this café. Well, honestly speaking I’m not the right person to share his story here. You should visit the place to know about him and his journey and this café, I’m sure you will love it.
The café is a small place with an open kitchen where you can see your order cooking right in front of your eyes totally fresh, the chefs in this café are also street children’s and no they aren’t trained in culinary skills, so please forgive them if any mistakes happen by chance. If I speak about this café and my memory with it, then well, my memory with this café is really amazing. For two reasons, I was meeting my dear friends there as a small reunion and secondly the group who was enjoying their meal along with singing songs and playing the guitar, making other people sing along with them and demanding them to sing their favourite songs.
Coming up to food what we ordered-
Nimbu Pani: Ok! I know what you might be thinking! Who orders that! But trust me it was exactly the way your mom makes it at home. Neither too sweet nor too salty just perfect.
Chocolate Milkshake: Being a chocolate lover, I just end up ordering anything that contains chocolate as my drink. And Shabana made it exactly the way I like my chocolate milkshake, a little sweeter. Perfectly thick and creamy and tasty.
Grilled Mushrooms: Ok! This was one dish, I couldn’t taste as I’m allergic to mushrooms. But it smelled good and was served with cucumber and cheese. My friends loved it and according to them it was perfect in taste and the grilled flavour was just amazing.
Delhi Alu Chaat: Trust me, if you have tried Delhi alu chaat, then you will love this too. I was totally in love with this dish in the first bite. Made with perfection, the crispiness of the potatoes and the flavours of the onion and chutney gave this whole dish a perfect scrumptious taste I could die for.
Penne Pasta in Pink Sauce: If you love pasta and if you like it anyway it is made, you will like this one too. Veggies well cooked, neither too soft nor too raw just the way it should be in the pasta, the sauce was less cheesy though but still, it tasted nice and the pasta was cooked perfectly. Honestly, the pasta was really nice.
Crunchy C7 Sandwich: Ok what is C7? Well, everything that was put between bread was starting with C, like carrot, cucumber, cheese, chutney etc. So C7 was veg and C8 was nonveg. It was what it named, crunchy! Good in taste and the right amount of crunchiness made this sandwich nice. I personally didn’t enjoy it much but still, it was good.
Mango Parfait: We picked this dessert because it looked really attractive plus it was there in their today’s special menu. So we ended up ordering and hey, we didn’t regret coz it was super delicious. The mango pieces with cream, crumbled cookies and some more stuff into it gave the dessert a perfect unique taste and the brilliant end to our meal.
*We also tried their freshly baked ajwain cookies which made me remind of what my mom makes as it tasted exactly the way I would have love to have it.
Overall my experience here was a bliss and I can’t wait to drop in here anytime soon. I actually have convinced my few friends to come along with me. I seriously m in love with this place and the people there.
If you haven’t been there yet, I suggest you should definitely try out this place and I guarantee that you will love it. Oh and did I told you that it’s a library café so you can check out books from their collection and can read it while sipping your coffee or taking a bite from your meal. Trust me, just go there once and you will fall in love.
Note: Get out from Gate 1 of Marol Naka Metro station to reach the café and no walk down there and don’t take an auto or else you will be taken to another place altogether.
Do drop a comment on a box below and share with me your experience if you visit this place.
If you like this post then do like, comment and share…
Well, I will be back with another post some other day.
Till then take care…
With Love…
Have you ever thought that you can fall in love with a place just by entering into it? Ok, I might sound similar here, as I have said a similar thing for some other places too. But what to do I have a big heart and I keep falling in love with the places I feel worth loving and connecting to me in some way.
But this place is different than every other place. This place is really special and has a really deep and touching and inspiring story behind this place. Well, I’m talking about Bombay to Barcelona Library Café in Marol Naka, Mumbai. I wasn’t aware of this place until last weekend when my friend took me there. Located at the walkable distance from Marol Naka Metro station, this place is run by all street kids (youngsters) who serve, cook and manage the restaurant all by themselves.
The café is a small place with an open kitchen where you can see your order cooking right in front of your eyes totally fresh, the chefs in this café are also street children’s and no they aren’t trained in culinary skills, so please forgive them if any mistakes happen by chance. If I speak about this café and my memory with it, then well, my memory with this café is really amazing. For two reasons, I was meeting my dear friends there as a small reunion and secondly the group who was enjoying their meal along with singing songs and playing the guitar, making other people sing along with them and demanding them to sing their favourite songs.
Coming up to food what we ordered-
Nimbu Pani: Ok! I know what you might be thinking! Who orders that! But trust me it was exactly the way your mom makes it at home. Neither too sweet nor too salty just perfect.
Chocolate Milkshake: Being a chocolate lover, I just end up ordering anything that contains chocolate as my drink. And Shabana made it exactly the way I like my chocolate milkshake, a little sweeter. Perfectly thick and creamy and tasty.
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| The book next to the pasta is written by Amin and it shares his life story in the book |
Overall my experience here was a bliss and I can’t wait to drop in here anytime soon. I actually have convinced my few friends to come along with me. I seriously m in love with this place and the people there.
If you haven’t been there yet, I suggest you should definitely try out this place and I guarantee that you will love it. Oh and did I told you that it’s a library café so you can check out books from their collection and can read it while sipping your coffee or taking a bite from your meal. Trust me, just go there once and you will fall in love.
Note: Get out from Gate 1 of Marol Naka Metro station to reach the café and no walk down there and don’t take an auto or else you will be taken to another place altogether.
Do drop a comment on a box below and share with me your experience if you visit this place.
If you like this post then do like, comment and share…
Well, I will be back with another post some other day.
Till then take care…
With Love…
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