Chhee bar

About five years ago when I was a relatively naive girl, I started frequenting this rather popular book store cum eating joint in connaught place called umm.. Well let's call it chhee bar. Getting a very 'hand to chin' amount for pocket money, I couldn't ever really have a meal or try their rather exotic sounding variants of chai. All I would do is go there and shamelessly drown my mind and my face in a book I didn't want to miss but wasn't keen on buying. Having all the time in the world, I would park myself in chhee bar for hours together but never tried anything on the menu other than the books(well technically books are on the shelves and not the menu but what the deuce).

I was in LUCKY OBLIVION.

The day I could afford the chai and the loaf, I tried it and suddenly the whole emotion for the place changed. The food here is atrocious and so is the chai, not to mention overpriced and served too casually. A cafe or chai bar in the heart of the country's capital could have and should have been so much more. If you still find yourself here even after a bad experience with the chai-shai because of the sheer craving of skimming through books, flipping through pages lost in thought, just like me, your best bet here is darjeeling tea and brownie.

Everything tastes like a concotion of bland everythingness! It's strange really how consistent chhee bar staff is. Don't ever try the Kashmiri or green teas, chances are you won't have those again and even if you do, it'll faintly remind you of pee(putting it as politely as possible). One more advice, their card machine doesn't work most of the times and given the
overpriced menu, keep about Rs. 500 handy there's an axis bank ATM on the stairs itself.

Also, you'd want to ask them what IS available as the menu is just a smoke screen. More than 70% of the things on the menu are almost never available.

If not a reader you can surely skip this place. 2 on 5.

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