Coffee and Food: Visit TRANCE@Jubliee Hills in Hyderabad

Trance Lounge : The New Buzz word in Hyderabad

Trance ,a Coffee Shop and a Restaurant @Jubilee Hills makes another outlet for youngsters hangout and promises to offer a unique dining experience.You get speciality Kebabs & Barbeque, Breads, Choclates and Cakes.With its exquisite interiors and informal atmosphere its sure to be a gr8 hangout for Hyderabadis.

Plot No. 1285/B, Road No. 64, Beside Bharat Petrol Pump, Jubilee Hills Checkpost, Hyderabad.

Equinox A Spanish Lounge in Hyderabad

Equinox, A Spanish Lounge--- Merchant Towers, Plot # 5, Road No. 4, Banjara Hills

Wanna taste a mix of Mexican,Lebanese and other Global offerings?Pastas, nachos, sizzlers, chopsueys, satays, tiramisu..Wow How Exciting... This is Equinox for you..

with Music and concerts from DJ's across the country, this would be the apt place for a trendy weekend gigs with friends, relax in the cushions, listen to music and enjoy the cuisine. Sea food and Non Veg's delight is a must buy.

Best Hangouts in Chennai

Folks,
Here is the list of new and trendy restaurants in chennai. If you are heading to chennai for a visit or if you are a chennaite looking out information on some trendy hangouts then below are the places to go.....

INFLUENCE: No.91, Poonamalle High Road, Egmore- Chennai( Near Hotel Dasprakash) 044- 42974455. A luxury Dining and an extremely trendy restaurant designed by Manish Malhothra.Its a fine dining with a vegetarian restaurant spread over 5000 sq.ft. Want to savour Fusion food all over the globe? Then head here..A-la- carte for two costs about 700 plus taxes.Try the grilled broccoli with Dijon mustard, paneer with salsa or spinach dumplings oozing with melted camembert! For the more adventurous, there are paper rolls, fromaggio and grilled veggies ! You can also settle for the yummy pizzas and risottos. The Indian menu : paneer khurchan, naans, rotis, daal, etc. The desi food abounds in taste and goes slow on the oil and masala. The desserts are sinfully creamy, and delicious!

CASA PICCOLA: No.7,Khader Nawaz Khan Road, Nungambakkam,Chennai (044-68230808)

Italian and Swizz Salads,Pastas/Tapas and Spaghetti, Steaks and Sea food with a trendy ambience...Head for Casa Piccola......

LITTLE ITALY: Shop No.112, Eldorado Building,Nungambakkam High road,Chennai-34

(044- 42601234). Do you want to dine in Rome or Milan? Then Head to Little Italy in Nungambakkam. More than 25 varieties of Bread starters with Mozzarella Italian ,Parmesan Cheese and Butter ,Crispy potato skins,melted cheese.oooooooo Yummy...... More than 17 kinds of salads, Pizzas like Calzone al Farno,Foccaccia, Ortolana..You would feel like you have stepped right in to Italy. Piattis, Pasta,Spaghetti, Italian desserts and Mexican Specialities. A great hangout for youngsters.

CORNUCOPIA: 30, Cenotaph Road,Teynampet,Chennai - 600 018: 044- 4205 9495

Delightful Non-Veg starters and Veg and Non-Veg Main Course. Plunge in to a mix of Europe, Middle Eastern Asian Cuisine.

Barbeque Nation: Shri Devi Park Hotel, Near Soma Sunder Ground, 1, Hanumantha Street, T.Nagar, Chennai .Phone 42694481, 42694482

For a mix of Mediterranean, American, Oriental and Asian origin.

BELLA CIAO: You can either dine in the centre of city Nungambakkam at the roof Top or You can dine near the BeachGarden in Kottivakkam, outskirts of chennai. We can assure you a delightful expereince with the Italian food in both the places. Dont miss Bella Ciao.

1.Roof Top#140, Chhotabhai Centre, Nungambakkam High Road, Nungambakkam, Chennai, 600034. Tamil Nadu, INDIA.Phone: +91 44 2833 0085

2.Lounge Beach Garden#4, Shri Krishna Enclave, Kottivakkam, Chennai - 600041, Tamil Nadu, INDIA.Phone: +91 44 2451 1130

Others : The list is endless. Try visiting China Town,Cascade Restaurant, Mainland China, Gallopin Gooseberry all in and around nungambakkam and Khader Nawaz Khan road.

NORTH INDIAN HANGOUTS:

Bayleaf Restaurant - 14,6th street,Gopalapuram 044- 28114557(Opposite stella maris college)

A North Indian Cuisine Frontier and Bengali cuisine as well.

Aangan - No. 42/3, 1st FloorCathedral Road, Gopalapuram, Chennai, 044 65174585‎
The Dhaba - Dhaba has three to four branches in Chennai.

T45, Besant Nagar, Chennai, 044 24910900‎

17, Vijayaraghavachari Road, T Nagar, 044 28151021‎

Dr Radha Krishnan Salai, Opposite AVM Rajeshwari Kalyana MandapamMylapore.

Dhabha Express - This has many branches in chennai. Nungambakkam, Teynampet, Annanagar

Healthy Life

You are what you eat. So lets have a look at what we should be consuming for breakfast,Lunch and dinner.
1. Breakfast:
Start your day with a fresh juice with out sugar or a cup of Ginger Tea. Ginger Tea has stimulators which keeps your body and mind healthy. Have a moderate Breakfast with any one of these listed below. You get enough nutrition out of these:
A)Bread cubes or little cornflakes with Milk
B)Any one Indian tiffin.( idly with chutney or 1 dosa with Chutney)Please avoid Poha,Upma and Poori in the morning.
C)Sometimes a large cup of Complan or Horlicks substitues the above to give you equal amount of energy.
D)Crushed Oats or kelloggs powder with Milk or you also get OAT biscutes.
E) Boiled Eggs Two with Milk or with out Milk.
F)Freshly cut fruits with milk. Take large quantities of Pomegranate,Apple,Guava, water melon,musk melon and less quanitites of banana and mango because of its high sugar content.
So, a cup of fresh juice or tea combined with fruits or a mild cereal or tiffin is enough to start the day.
2.Lunch:
Try and take enough water or a cup of tea inbetween Breakfast and Lunch time. Avoid any kind of snack eateries between breakfast and lunch time as it adds to unwanted calories and does no good for health.Go directly for lunch at 1PM preferably .Try any of the alternatives:
A)Have two Cups of Rice and Two Rotis with two different kind of vegetables. Take only these vegetables.Beans,SoyaBeans,Brocolli,Drumstick,Radish,Ladies finger,all kinds of Gourds(Bitter gourd,snake gourd etc),Tomato etc .....Add Spinach and Dal every alternative day to your menu.(Toor dal or massor dal or moong dal)
B)Have two slices of carrot and salad each every day alont with the above menu.
C)Chutneys are often ignored while havign food.But chutneys have lot of medicinal value to the food.Try Amla, Pudina,Tomato,Corainder and ginger chutney along with the main menu as a side dish or mix it with rice.
D)The instant protein givers: Paneer,Meat,Chicken and Fish atleast twice or thrice a week.
E)Lentils,Legumes and Sprouts atleast thrice a week. (White channa,Black peas,Green peas,Rajma etc).Take it along with a mild spiced gravy which facilitates good absorption of the protein nutrition.
E)Curd to finish the lunch and keep cool.
3.Evening Snacks
A)A cup of Tea or coffee.
B)Avoid Veg puffs and any other oily items.
C)Mild indian tiffin would do with less oil.
D)Freshly cut fruits- one small Cup.
E)Veg sandwich filled pudina or tomato fillings.
4. Dinner
Have any one of these alternatives:
A) Four small Phulkas with 1 small cup of any north indian side dish or curd.
B)If its Rice, then let it be only two or three cups with easily digestible main dishes like pepper rasam,sambar,more kozhambu alais north indian kadi.
C)Add some fruits after the dinner if you are not allergic to fruit moisture in the night.
C)If you are suffering from cold or flu, have soup or rasam in the night till the cold is withdrawn.
Summary:
A) High vitamin diet in the breakfast, High protien diet in the Lunch and healthy and less oiled food in the night.
B) This would serve as a perfect combination for a strong immune system which helps you in preventing several viral based attacks.
C)Avoid Liquor and cigaratte very often.
D)Avoid having huge amount of oily starters or chips in the parties. Substitute it with anything else.
E)Edibles and Pickles occasionally would infact do good.
F)Stop eating when the first signals of heaviness starts.Anything you eat extra is for pleasure and it disturbs your entire day of digestion process.So eat healthy and succeed.

Yummy Fruit Puddings-- A very quick Breakfast

Ingredients:
11/2 Cup Milk
Two small Mangoes
1 small freshly cut Guava Fruit pieces
1 small freshly cut apple pieces
1 small Banana

Serving Size : For three to Four people

Method:
1.Cut the Mangoes into pieces and add it with milk and make fine milkshake out of it in a juicer.
2.Cut the Guava,apple and Banana into pieces.
3.Pour the Mango shake on the freshly cut fruits and keep it in fridge for 5 to ten minutes.
4.Serve the fruit pudding chill.