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Dec 12, 2007
awesome experience and great food
Vishalla is an awesome experience of fine and authentic gujarati cuisine in a village setting.
The main highlight is spending an evening there. Reach there once it is dark and you will find yourself entering into a lane beautifully lit up with oil lamps. The hosts will welcome you with flowers. At the entrance there is the counter where you pay for the dinner (it is a fixed per person rate) and they will give you a time when you will be seated for dinner.
Till then you have various options to spend time on. As you walk inside, the entire place is lit up with oil lanterns giving a soothing atmosphere. In the main space a group of traditional singers and dancers performing and they will be delighted if you join in. In one corner there is a puppet show going on for kids. There is a excellent utensil museum where one can see the utensils used during olden days. There is a small shop with different gujarati handicrafts. And still if you dont want to do anything just relax on the traditional cots or the swings.
As soon as it is it dinner time, a waiter will come looking for you...and trust me they find you! You will be lead to the dining area which is divided into small open huts. They cluster up from around 2 to 15 people. You will be served on the leaf plates and bowls. And slowly the waiters will start coming in and serve the food.
And now the most important part...the food. Rather than going into too much detail of the entire menu, i would recommend what i really like. The best is the aloo subji, the rotla, kadhi, kichadi and the white butter. In the dining area you will see one hut where they prepare fresh roti or rotls or bhakharis.
Apart from dinner one can go there for evening snacks as well. They also organize lunch parties for a bigger group. i can write an essay on my experiences at vishalla but it is some place one should try in ahmedabad.
