The best Pizza that I had...

The visit to Rock Gardens seemed like a school excursion. But it had been quite some time since we left school and our mind was too tired at that point to accommodate such excursions. 
The last 5 days had been a tough ride for each one of us. Irony was that each one was exhausted trying to make the other person comfortable and survive. That would be called friendship I guess. All of us still had the mountains floating in our head. We had just returned from a 14k feet trek.

We headed out to find some good food which we were deprived of with majestic aplomb in the previous week. None of us could recollect what exactly did we eat in the past few days? I had entered a phase of food amnesia, just could not recollect if I had eaten anything at all in the past week. Before visiting the rock gardens we had somehow managed to find a place which was pure vegetarian as well as served "Jain" food. It was not a restaurant that we ate at, it was Morari Bapus ashram or something which the driver took us after some serious thinking!

Next step was to find a Pure Veg restaurant in Chandigarh, and also expect that it served something which was Jain apart from water that is. To find a veg restaurant out there was equivalent to finding water on Mars. We all had given up on the existence of such a restaurant when it clicked us that there was something called Zomato on this earth. After scrutinizing a dozen of restaurants on that application, finally we all decided to go to some "Gopal's" located at Sector 35. There are close to half a million sectors in Chandigarh with every sector starting and ending with a roundabout! Everyone had little hope for a good meal as we entered the restaurant to find out that it was a sweet shop converted into a partial restaurant.

After walking upstairs, I realised it was a Self Service restaurant but the menu looked appealing from a distance. A self service restaurant is all what my tired soul was looking for!! As I uttered the words Jain for a few dishes, the guy on the counter gave me a dazzling look denying such meals categorically. He reacted as if i had ordered for pork at a holy place! I tried explaining him that some dishes were Jain by default, so he could at least serve us that. But he refused profoundly as if he had to maintain some blonde legacy doing that. After constant pestering across the restaurant, right from the waiters to the chefs, we finally managed to get some "Jain" lunch. 

I had no clue what kind of cheese pizza would this place serve(one of the dishes that we had ordered) and just waited patiently to eat something which would lower my food pangs as I was famished beyond horizons. When it finally came, it looked good enough to eat. To our amazement the pizza got over in less than 2 mins! We all looked at each other with startling eyes. It was difficult to believe for us that the pizza over here could be that mesmerizing. We had already eaten up lot of things out here, khaman and chutney and whatever we could convince them to make Jain. But as soon the pizza got over we unanimously indicated to each other that we should have one more of that spectacularly soft cheese pizza. The cheese melted so gleamingly yet intricately within, it felt like an elixir to the food starved week.

That cheese pizza over there had beaten the most famous pizzas in Mumbai hands down making Bachelors, Sukh Sagar, Amar, Dominos(cheese burst fame) or even Trattoria seem like newbies. Either it was for our search of food that made that pizza so miraculous or we were meant to travel so far to find the best pizza we had ever tasted. I don't know about others, but the next time I head to the sector city Chandigarh, I am going to this pizza place for sure and I shall prefer going to Nana Nani Udyan than going to Rock Garden.