My nephew is here from New Zealand on a month long vacation.
This has called for lots of celebrations especially with special foods at home
and at restaurants. As of now, at home we had many traditional, Hyderabadi and other
special foods including Chinese and Japanese. And then he is also being
entertained by other family members, relatives and friends; sometimes along
with us, at their houses or restaurants with sumptuous food. With few more days
of his stay left this trend of entertainment is continuing.
The attached photographs are of one such party, a new experience
for me, that of a Wish Grill! This is not new to my son and nephews in the
pictures; they have experienced this here, in Bangalore and other cities
abroad. This party I am talking about was at Absolute Barbecues, the first and
only restaurant with a regular Wish Grill in Hyderabad. And I thoroughly
enjoyed the Wish Grill experience which is very obvious from the attached
photographs which are showing our table with a large number of red bowls from
the Wish Grill.
The concept of Live Grills at tables with Veg. and Non Veg.
starters is quite old to our city, certainly over 10 years old, starting with
36-Chhattees BBQ restaurant at Jubilee Hills. We have been visiting all these
popular Live Grill restaurants like 36 Chhattees at Jubilee Hills and at
Paradise, The Great Kabab Factory, Barbeque Nation and Sigree Restaurant
because we like Kababs and other grilled foods. Coming back to Absolute Barbecues
restaurant where I have gone for the first time, the Live Grill here is the
same as in other Live Grill restaurants, serving five non-veg. and five veg.
starters on skewers to be finally cooked on the grill at your table, to your
liking. The difference with this restaurant is the Wish Grill. After having the
starters or mid way you can walk to the Wish Grill counter without a plate in
your hand. Here you will find a spread of around 16 varieties of exotic
assorted Veg. and Non Veg. dishes. There is Rabbit, Duck, Emu, Chicken and Quail
meat and Fish, Prawns and mixed Seafood consisting of Fish, Baby Octopus and Squid
and for vegetarians there are Olives, Zucchini, Baby Corn and Mushrooms.
Adjacent to this spread is a sample display of seven BBQ sauces in glasses
indicating their names. You will have to choose any number of Veg. and Non Veg.
items and the sauce you would like to go with each of them and inform the Chef.
He would pick up each of the main item mentioned by you and put it into a bowl,
add vegetables and herbs to it and attach a colored clip to the bowl which
indicates the sauce to be added to it and another clip with a token number and
you are handed over a token with the same number as on the token clip. You go
back to the table with these tokens and continue with your starters. In the
meantime your Wish Grill items are being barbecued. The bearer would then come
to your table and note your token numbers and get your Barbecued Wish Grill
items to you.
Then as at other Live Grill restaurants AB’s has a large and
sumptuous main course-buffet spread and over ten Indian and International
desserts and a live stone ice cream counter.
As a final word on this experience, I liked the Wish Grill and
would love to experience it more often and certainly once again when my nephew
visits us, hopefully in the near future.
Reminiscing few more
barbecue celebrations!:
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