Our Hotel Sayaba !!

Our family owns a restaurant by the name of ‘SAYABA’ in Kolhapur. For the last 10 years my family has been running this restaurant. Earlier it was our secondary source of income but now it has become primary due my Dad’s interest in food industry and Mom’s effective management. Its specialty is sea food, Malvani style of cooking. But a restaurant in Kolhapur is incomplete without Mutton specialty dishes.

The idea came up since my Dad (who is a great cook, better than my Mom) had interest in starting up a restaurant. We had a place next to our home lying vacant and Mom took responsibility of managing the show with me & my sister chipping in as and when required. We have maintained quality & taste of the food for so many years that we have customers telling us the same. We have built friendships, relationships with most of our customers and they are like family friends and we cater to most of them according to their tastes. My parents are fondly called as ‘Kaka’ & ‘Kaki’ by everyone who regularly visits the restaurant and love the food & service provided by us.

My parents have always believed that serving food with Love & affection is the most important thing in this business and people should leave the restaurant with satisfaction of having the best food & service.

Nowadays, whenever I take a leave & go home for vacation, some or the other staff goes on leave. So then I become an hotelier, taking orders, serving dishes, managing billing & collections or arranging the dishes. I am not allowed in the kitchen since I don’t know anything about cooking ;)

Most of my friends had been to Sayaba and with this blog, I want to extend my invitation to everyone to come to Kolhapur and enjoy the delicacies in our restaurant. Don’t worry people, the bill is on me :) . Veggies have very little choice for food cause Sayaba is Non-Veg specialty restaurant but don’t worry I will manage something for you too.

Comeback Match !!

This Saturday I played cricket again for TCS Mumbai, after a gap of 4 months. It feels great to be back in the team, wearing TCS whites again, holding the bat or the red ball, look at the pitch, feel the rough, dive to save runs, get your clothes dirty.

I had been preparing myself back to fitness for this day. Going regularly to gym for last 3 weeks, running 2 kms and walking 1 km everyday with exercise to loose all the excess flab I had built during last 4 months.

It was a 40 over match against Bluestar and we batted first. Our batters made 190 in 40 overs. A decent, defendable total on a dusty pitch.
They were playing well and had a good start. I was always in action from ball one. I was standing at mid-off or fine leg and the ball was following me like crazy. At last I took the catch of the player who was hitting the ball all around and making me run J
After the 16th over captain handed the ball to me and there was left hander who was batting well. My first over was a disaster and was hit for 2 boundaries by the left hander. Second over 1 boundary hit by the same left handed batter. I took revenge by taking his wicket in my 3rd over. After second over, I bowled well in rhythm and with right line & length. In the end my figures were 6 over, 29 runs and 3 wickets.
In the end we lost the match because we could not get last 2 wickets, and they scored the required 50 runs in 12 overs.
Wish I had taken couple of wickets more and finished the match. But that’s cricket.

Looking forward to play the Inter Tata matches from next weekend!!

PS: For those who don’t know, I play as an off spinner in the team.