[RECAP]: 11th March- Food Crawl Meet-Up, Dombivli

[Smita_Patil]

What a great start it was to host my very first meet-up! I must thank my dear friend @Rohan10 for helping with the successful execution of this food crawl meetup.

Dombivli is known for its oldest outlets, which serve delicious authentic food items. Starting from Vadapav to Thalipeeth to sabudana khichdi, Maharashtrian fast food is my all-time favourite and I bet you will love it too!

As planned, we started this food crawl at 17:00 hours from Remane Upahar Gruha, near Dombivli station which was also our meeting point. We realized that the outlet was going to take some time to arrange their usual setup, so we decided to start editing maps. Starting from Remane Upahar Gruha’s location, we edited multiple shop names which were wrongly translated from English to Marathi. On maps, Remane is located at a different location than it is actually at, but in spite of me trying it in the past it still shows up at the same place on maps. This time Rohan tried editing it but the edit was not successful for unknown reasons.

Few other shop names that we edited are,

(कॉत्तोंकिंग) Cottonking to कॉ****टन किंग

(ए तो स गिफ्ट गॅलरी) A to Z gift gallery to ए टू झी गिफ्ट गॅलरी

The Raut’s family salon to द राऊत्स फैमिली सलोन

(ऋष डिस्ट्रिब्युशन) Risha distribution to रिशा डिस्ट्रिब्युशन

(प्रो हा****ल फिजिओथेरपी & रिहॅबिलिटेशन क्लिनिक) Pro Heal physiotherapy to प्रो हिल फिजिओथेरपी & रिहॅबिलिटेशन क्लिनिक

Sundara Palace सुंदरा पॅलेस

Out of these, Pro heal and Sundara palace edits were immediately approved.

As the outlet opened we started our food crawl and enjoyed our very first dish of the day- Misal Pav at Remane Upahar Gruha followed by Sabudana khichdi, Thalipith, Modaks and special Chaha (Tea). My son and husband also accompanied me on this food crawl. We connected virtually with @AjitThite and @AdityaKulkarni too. My sincere thanks to them for joining us virtually and being flexible for calls as per our hopping schedule.

Caption: The Collage of Maharashtrian Dishes (clockwise) Misal Paav, Sabudana Khichadi, Modak, Thalipith.

I personally prefer going to this outlet as it is a kid friendly place and it is a women led small business. Being a mother of a toddler it is very helpful for me to go to outlets which have space (inside and outside both) for my kid to play and take a break in between. The owners of this shop are also very friendly. Remane feels like a comfortable spot to us for our weekend visits.

Caption: Photo with owner of Remane Upahar Gruha. (Permission received by Owner to post on Connect)

Although we were already full, we also visited Deepak snack corner, a 55 year old outlet which is famous for its fast food items (Upvas food). I really enjoy having Upvas cutlet here which we tried during this meet up. We also tried Upvas thalipeeth here.

Caption: Collage of dishes at Deepak Snacks Corner and its Storefront Photo by @Rohan10 , On top left: Upvas thalipith, left bottom: Upvas kachori

We later moved to our next destination and ate a famous food snack of all time at Thakur Vadapav and Snacks Corner. I could barely take any more food after we visited Deepak snack corner but Vadapav to Maharashtrians is not just vadapav, it’s an emotion!

Caption: Storefront photo of Thakur Vadapaav and Snacks Corner and photo of Vadapav.

After we enjoyed our Vadapav (Indian Burger as they say), we started moving towards Hotel Ballaleshwar. The very first thing that I had to do was to edit the location of this outlet to its new location. We tried their well known Misal Pav. They serve different combinations of misal, the special misal is served with Gulab Jamun. We tried their Sabudana khichdi and Gavati Chaha too. Being a kid friendly outlet, this place is again my all time favorite location for misal pav and Batata Vada. The lasoon chutney they serve with vada is very delicious.

Caption: Collage of dishes at Shri Ballaleshwar clicked by me. Top right Vada with lasoon chutney, Sabudana vada, Misal Pav

We totally enjoyed the food at each outlet we visited. We happened to miss some delicious food snacks like momos, appam, pav bhaji at famous outlets as they did not fall in this food crawl category but I look forward to organizing a separate meet up to cover many other food outlets which can bring these items to connect platforms.

My sincere thanks to Rohan again for attending and making my meet up a successful event. Also @AjitThite and Aditya Kulkarni for spending their valuable time with us virtually and sharing their experiences and suggestions with us.

Caption: Screenshot by @AjitThite of online meet during meet up.

Thanks to everyone who supported and encouraged me directly and indirectly to help execute this meetup. And the big big thanks to Connect for approving this meet up.

[Rohan10]

First of all congratulations on your first successful meet-up. I am very much impressed with your meet-up plan. It was properly executed. All the food dishes were very very tasty. I enjoyed it a lot. It was very worth attending your meet-up. Thank you so much for hosting such a great meet-up. It was nice meeting Sagar and your kid Virajas. I enjoyed their company. Also, I enjoyed contributing to maps through suggest an edit. I will also post a recap on it soon. Looking forward to more such meet-ups from you. I will surely attend. It was my pleasure to help you and attend your meet-up. Thank you so much @Smita_Patil for hosting such a great meet-up.

[Maximilianozalazar]

@Smita_Patil que bueno que quedo el recap, las fotos se ven geniales de la comida.

Fue un exito

Por más juntadas saludos maxi

[Shrut19]

नमस्कार,

@Smita_Patil

मस्त वाटले तुझी पोस्ट वाचून, बरेच दिवस आजारपणामुळे काही खावस वाटत नव्हते, पण तुझ्या पोस्ट चा कव्हर फोटो पाहून तोंडाला पाणी सुटले, सर्वच हवे से वाटले, मी मीट अप जरी चुकविले असले तरी हे महाराष्ट्रिअन पदार्थ मला नक्की खायचे आहेत, तुझ्या पहिल्या मिट अपची सुरूवात छान झाली, आता वाट पाहते आहे, पुढच्या मिट अप ची…

[Mohammedaalameer]

Thank you!

[AjitThite]

हे एक परिपूर्ण रीकॅप आहे @Smita_Patil .व्हिडिओ कॉलवर तुम्हा सर्वांना भेटून मला खूप आनंद झाला.

मला नेहमी जुन्या महाराष्ट्रीयन खानावळी सारखी हॉटेल्स आवडतात जिथे तुम्हाला अस्सल अन्न आणि स्वादिष्ट चव मिळते. येथे सजावट नाही, फक्त चव महत्वाची असते. घरगुती वातावरण असले कि सगळे छान वाटतं, लहान मुले पण रमतात. विराज पण एकदम धम्माल करत होता, आता बहुतेक ओळखेल मला परत भेटला तर!

मराठी नावांचा गोंधळ मी पण बऱ्याच वेळा निस्तारत बसलेला असतो. मिसळ, साबुदाणा खिचडी व थालपीठ एकदम लाजवाब दिसतेय, नक्की यायला हवे !

डोंबिवलीला शेवटचे केव्हा भेट दिली होती ते मला आठवत नाही, पण आता हे विलक्षण स्वादिष्ट पदार्थ बघून मला पुन्हा तिथे यायची इच्छा होतेय, पुढच्या वेळी जमवून बघतो! @Rohan10 हा नेहमीच सर्वांना मदत करत असतो, त्याबद्दल त्याचा नेहमी कौतुक व आदर वाटतो.

धन्यवाद!

[Smita_Patil]

Many thanks @Rohan10 . Sorry for late response. I am sure you loved the food we tried during this food crawl. I learnt a lot from you about editing and writing posts itself during this meet up which is really helpful.

Waiting for your recap

[Smita_Patil]

Thank you @Shrut19 for your support and encouragement. You please take care. We will keep having meet ups but health is priority. We did enjoy the meet up but we missed you a lot. I am sure that you would have loved the food if you could join.

I hope to see you for one more meet up like this soon.

Thanks again for your response.

[Smita_Patil]

I really appreciate your efforts @AjitThite for your dedication and connect to meet ups without any excuses. That is the hidden encouragement itself. I am sure you would have loved eating the food as much as you liked seeing it. You have to make a visit to Dombivli sometime. Food is on me

may be a short one but we can plan a visit

Virajas che tumhi changlech mitra banlat ataa…

[AjitThite]

काही नाही तरी विराजसला भेटायला नक्की येईन एकदा @Smita_Patil !

[TusharSuradkar]

Excellent banner photo collage @Smita_Patil

And it seems you had a great variety of excellent mouth-watering dishes during the meetup.

Good combination for both ‘upavaas’ and non-upavaas people

Congratulations to all who could participate in person.

[Shrut19]

नमस्कार,

** @Smita_Patil **

हो नक्कि पुढिल मिट अप ला भेटू…

[SachinVijayan]

congratulations for your first meet up… @Smita_Patil

I am basically a foodie, On reading your post I am eager to taste Maharashtrian fast food…

Hope this post will guide me in future !!!

[Smita_Patil]

It will be a treat to your taste buds for sure @SachinVijayan

I will b happy to help too if you need any information

thanks for your response

[Praniketmore]

@Smita_Patil Very well described summary of meetup with amazing images, and the modak and sabudana khichadi dishes seem delicious. Nice you enjoyed a lot .