Farewell to Hyderabad

I am leaving Hyderabad at the end of next week. It has been such a cute place with a list of pleasures I can’t quite enumerate. But I shall recommend a few places that you can visit on a weekend.

Café Odyssey: One of the pasta places in Hyderabad with a decent buffet, with the Odyssey bookshop right behind (and hence, a must see). The coffee is not great, but not bad either.

KBR Park: Read My Places to Run in India
Hussain Sagar: The perimeter of Hussain Sagar is a virtual microcosm of Hyderabad (with upmarket apartments overseeing the lake) and an abrupt shockingly open drain joining the lake at one point (How did they allow this?!)

Abid’s: Years ago, before the days of Hitech City and Hyderabad Central, if you asked a Hyderabadi, “ka karein miya?!” he would reply “Abid’s jao. Ghoom ke aao” and hence one must see all that there is on Abid’s including the bookshops which stock some real gems which need to be uncovered (quite literally!)

Café D’Art: Everyone who wants to have nice food knows Fusion 9 and Cinnabar Red. But if all one wants to do is lounge about and have coffee and then contemplate the universe, unlike the relatively noisier Barista, across the road, this place is a good choice. You can get agitated by the rather chilled out service, but then you are expected to have the time on the weekend.

Majji’s house: Overlooking the Jalagam Vengal Rao park and having an awesome view of the lake, Majji’s house on the 4th floor has a fantastic location by virtue of being the corner apartment. Ok, fine, I know that, not all of you can go there and act like a pig – guzzle beer and endless Bacardi breezers, shout yourself hoarse over football matches, but then what the hell!? This is about my places to be in Hyd! Not to forget the biryani from Hyderabad house, whose aloos are “Oh so tender!” that they melt in your mouth. Serious, if I can say that I liked aloo (after a little over a half a dozen years of only aloo at breakfast everyday), you will too!