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Buzzing Nightlife
Vie Lounge
102, Juhu
Mumbai – 400 054
Tel:: +91 22 2660 3003
Fax: +91 22 2660 3100
Email: info@vie.co.in
Website: www.vie.co.in
With mixologists trained at the famed London Academy of Bartending, big-name DJs spinning the latest Balearic beats, and sweeping ocean views from its sprawling deck, you expect to find this kind of bar in Ibiza - not Mumbai.
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Yet Vie is packed with glamorous, perfumed scenesters, among them Bollywood kings (Shah Rukh Khan) catwalk queens, business types and assorted hordes of yuppie Bom-babes and boys in between. The leading light of a Vie-brant new urban lounge scene its sleek dining space, with a seafood and spicy, er, Cajun menu, is a hit, while those Bellinis and Martinis mixed to perfection by the LAB boys are the best this side of the Gulf.
Pure class!
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Cocktail Recipes
MaiTai
- 1 tbsp Almond (orgeat)syrup
1 oz Curacao
2 oz. dark rum
2 oz. light rum
Juice of 1 lime
Lime peel
Mint sprigs
Pineapple stick
(Orchid and paper umbrella optional)
Mix all ingredients (except lime peel,pineapple) with cracked ice in a shaker or blender.
Pour into a chilled double Old Fashioned glass. Garnish with lime peel, and pineapple stick.
Note: There are a few different recipes for the Mai Tai with the one consistent being the use of lots of rum.
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Dining Destinations
Niros Restaurant
Mirza Ismail Road
Jaipur 302 001
Rajasthan - India
Tel: +91 (141) 2374493, 2218520
Fax: +91 (141) 2371746
E-mail: restaurant@nirosindia.com
Website: www.nirosindia.com
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Niros has been around some 50 years and is almost a historical landmark in Jaipur- at least for the foodies! It was the first restaurant in Jaipur to serve Chinese cuisine way back in 1960s.
Niros offers a wide menu selection from Continental and Chinese to Indian. The Rajasthani specialties are delicious. Try the Rajasthani lal maans, slow-cooked mutton in a fiery red sauce, or sula, charcoal-grilled lamb pieces marinated in hot spices, which are extremely popular. The food is so popular that is a regular haunt of many celebs and tourists! Niro’s gets the local vote for the best non-veg food in Jaipur though it also serves a good vegetarian spread.
The restaurant has a garden like ambience, with plush interiors complimented by murals by the internationally acclaimed artist, Satish Gujral.
The good food reputation of Niros travels across India. The restaurant finds mention in many International Food Guides including the Lonely Planet.
To quote from Karen and Gul Anand’s Penguin Food Lover’s Guide to India and Nepal- “This is undoubtedly the best restaurant, outside the five-star circuit, in Jaipur today. It is fun with its garden look, and is today a landmark on the busy, commercial, M.I.Road. The service is impeccable and staff well-trained, and the kitchen (one chef for every type of cuisine) is clean and run with an almost military efficiency. Though we are generally wary of restaurants which serve all types of cuisine, Niros has to be the exception!!!”
Now it can’t get better than that!
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Drunken Humor
A professor of chemistry wanted to teach his fifth grade class a lesson about the evils of liquor, so he produced an experiment that involved a glass of water, a glass of whiskey, and two worms.
"Now, class. Observe the worms closely," said the professor as he put the first worm into the water.
The worm in the water writhed about, happy as a worm in water could be.
The second worm, he put into the whiskey.
It writhed painfully, and it quickly sank to the bottom, dead as a doornail.
"Now, what lesson can we derive from this experiment?" the professor asked.
Little Johnny, who sits in back, raised his hand and wisely, responded,
"Drink whiskey and you won't get worms!"
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Trivia
The London Brew-nami of 1814
The Industrial Revolution wasn't all steam engines and textile mills. Beer production increased exponentially, as well. Fortunately, the good people of England were up to the challenge and drained kegs as fast as they were made. Brewery owners became known as "beer barons," and they spent their newfound wealth in an age-old manner -- by trying to party more than the next guy.
Case in point: In 1814, Meux's Horse Shoe Brewery in London constructed a brewing vat that was 22 feet tall and 60 feet in diameter, with an interior big enough to seat 200 for dinner -- which is exactly how its completion was celebrated. (Why 200? Because a rival had built a vat that seated 100, of course.)
After the dinner, the vat was filled to its 4,000-barrel capacity. Pretty impressive, given the grand scale of the project, but pretty unfortunate given that they overlooked a faulty supporting hoop. Yup, the vat ruptured, causing other vats to break, and the resulting commotion was heard up to 5 miles away.
A wall of 1.3 million gallons of dark beer washed down the street, caving in two buildings and killing nine people by means of "drowning, injury, poisoning by the porter fumes, or drunkenness."
The story gets even more unbelievable, though. Rescue attempts were blocked and delayed by the thousands who flocked to the area to drink directly off the road. And when survivors were finally brought to the hospital, the other patients became convinced from the smell that the hospital was serving beer to every ward except theirs. A riot broke out, and even more people were left injured.
Sadly, this incident was not deemed tragic enough at the time to merit an annual memorial service and/or reenactment.
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