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Limited money, unlimited food
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There is no restriction on the amount of food you can order at Khana Unlimited, a restaurant in Connaught Place, says RAHUL VERMA
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DARE TO ASK FOR MORE Actor-director Satish Kaushik, owner of Khana Unlimited, celebrating the second anniversary of his restaurant PHOTO: RAJEEV BHATT
Among the fond readers of this column is a young gentleman called Amol Saghar who, clearly, loves his food. He is in his final year in school, but devotes considerable time and energy to cooking and eating. Some days ago, I got a frantic email from him. He had had lunch at a place called Khana Unlimited, and urged me to try it out. I was told that the thalis there were real value for money, for one could eat and eat till the cows came home.
Finally one day I decided to try the place out. I was free for lunch last week and landed up at Khana Unlimited before the usual thali-eating crowd could gather there. Khana Unlimited is on the outer circle of Connaught Place and easy to spot. And its speciality is that you pay Rs.99 for one of its unlimited thalis, and get an endless supply of vegetable curries, daals, rotis and so on. And if you have 10 thalis in two weeks, they give you a thali free.
Bollywood posters
I had expected a nondescript little place, but was quite surprised to see that it was all glass and metal. There were huge posters from the latest Bollywood films up on the walls. But there was also Himesh Reshammiya belting out his songs from a set of speakers - which I thought was the management's clever way of spoiling your appetite.
An adult has to pay Rs.99 for a thali, while anybody less than a metre tall pays only Rs.59. I tried to slouch my way in, hoping that I'd pass off as 99 centimetres high, but my ego hit the measuring rod. So I quietly sat in one corner and waited for my thali-99 to appear.
It came with three kinds of chutneys and a glass of jal jeera. A man came bearing snacks. I was given a small cutlet and a kaala channa chaat, which was pretty good. I was ready to have some more of that, but I never saw the man again. Must have gone for a matinee show.
The thali consisted of a dal makhni, shahi paneer, palak kofta, aloo gobhi, channa dal, dahi and rotis. There were different kinds of rotis on offer, but I opted for the tawa rotis. There was a salad as well, which was like coleslaw without the mayo. For dessert - which is the only limited item on the menu - there was a moong dal halwa. It was a little too dry, so I wasn't heart-broken to hear that you got only one helping of the halwa in the Rs.99 thali.
Everything else was unlimited - the food as well as the tastelessness. I quietly ate as much as I could and called it a day. The next time I meet Amol Saghar, I'll have a few words to say to him.
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