Travel: Gholvad is a ideal weekend shun for Mumbaikars

After a boiling summers, a initial rains of monsoon have swept divided a grime, withdrawal Mumbaikars nervous with uninformed energy. The entrance weekend so has a vigour of expectations on it, of doing something inestimable in a weather. The standard destinations have been struck off, any discuss of Lonavla has been met with a common sigh. So, where does a Mumbaikar go?

Chikoos left to dry
Chikoos left to dry

Authenticook, a city-based knowledge dining service, have come adult with a new option.

A three-four hour expostulate divided from Mumbai, Gholvad (near Dahanu) is famous for a chikoo farms, a still beach and a abounding Parsi community. The organisation has organised for a stay and dining knowledge here, that they contend will offer an knowledge of a food and enlightenment of a village vital there.

Farm work rinse a fruit
Farm work rinse a fruit

Guests will stay in a homestay (Parsi-owned bungalow) complemented by Parsi transport baked by locals. Ameya Deshpande, co-founder of Authenticook, says that a thought is to offer a visitors a singular time. “We offer experiences. The food that they would get here would not be something that they would get in restaurants, and it is not each day that one gets to stay in gentle bungalow or go chikoo farming,” he shares.

The Bedroom during a homestay
The Bedroom during a homestay

There will also be a proof of a ancient art of Warli paintings finished by a Warli tribe, a strange inhabitants of Gholvad and circuitously regions. Those who strech a end before Saturday noon will also be means to revisit a internal market, buzzing with stalls offered uninformed organic vegetables, spices and such.

“We occasionally get a possibility to be tighten to nature, where the food grows. For example, chikoos in Mumbai come from Dahanu detached from West Bengal. People customarily don’t get a possibility to extract in an activity like chikoo tillage and conjunction do we always have an thought of where the fruits come from. This is also a reason because we zeroed in on this area,” he says.

Food served during GholvadFood served during Gholvad

The menu
Three dishes — lunch, cooking and breakfast — will be supposing by home cook Firdosh. These will be authentic Parsi dishes catering to vegetarians as good as non-vegetarians. The transport includes Veg Dhansak with Brown Rice, Dahi Chicken, Veg Stew, French Beans matriarch Chicken, Masoor Daal, Cabbage Sabzi and Akuri among others. The desserts to be served are Sev (Vermicelli dessert) and Jelly with uninformed fruits.

From: June 25 to 26
Call: 9833283656
Email: contact@authenticook.com
Cost: Rs 5,500

Gholvad
From Mumbai 154.8 km

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