no more rain.....

The end of a great week. After a fun afternoon with work paying for the office to see Happy Feet at a local cinema (lots of hooting and hollering at our shots... yay - Rhythm and Hues!) .... Arun, Serkan and his wife Burcin and I headed by cab (no rip off this time) into Juhu to have dinner at Rain. I'd been looking forward to going back here since 2002. I've always read up on the reviews of the place to see that it was still good... it's always been a cool hangout popular with Bollywood stars and one of *the* places to go in Bombay. We thought we might be lucky and get in without a reservation since we'd be there early at 8:30 or so. I had tried to call them all day but couldn't get through to the listed number. The taxi driver asked for directions, and got us there.... but..... it really didn't look like we'd find a 'happening' restaurant there... it was very residential. Couldn't find any sign of it! I asked a young guy in the laneway and he said.... it closed about 3 months ago!! Tragedy.... no more Rain. RIP.



We ended up at a South East Asian place around the corner and had a decent meal there instead. Cheap drinks and nice outdoor tables. But still.... I'm mourning for the loss of Rain......