Ai Cavalli!

If you want to go on a nice drive (around 30 kms from city centre) and see villages, cows, fields of millet, grapes, onions, and eat good home-cooked Italian food at the end of it, while watching prize horses, try Ai Cavalli at the Embassy Riding School!
Owned by an Italian lady, Silva Storai, India's only woman jockey, and the winner of many races.
This place is featured on the first page of the Times Food Guide. As they said, the Honey Chicken is fantastic! They make their own pasta and spaghetti. And you get to see magnificent race horses being trained!

Note: You have to call up and order your food in the morning, if you plan to for for lunch. They cook only on order. Call Geeta at 846-8296 or 98450-54013.
Open: 1 to 3.30 PM. 7-11 PM.

Prices: Comes to around Rs.200 per head. Yes, they serve beer!

To reach there: Drive down Mekhri Circle to Yelahanka (Nandi Hills Road). Cross Hebbal Lake Flyover, keep going until you reach the big junction where you have a road going straight to Nandi Hills, and a road going left to Dodballapur. Turn left on to the Dodballapur road. Drive down 9.5 kms. You reach a village called Rajankunte. There will be a white board with black letters on your left with the name of village in English and Kannada. Don't cross the village - there will be a right turn in between the shops, with a board - this road reaches the Railway Gate - you can see it from the road - take this road that goes to a village called Tarahunshe. Cross the railway gate, go 3.5 kms. In between there is a fork where you take the left one. Ask for Tarahunshe if you have a doubt! You will reach the Tarahunshe village with a big red arch. Take a right at the village circle - there is a STD booth there. If you have a doubt ask for Embassy Riding School, (not Ai Cavalli!) or mimic a horse if no one knows the name! Go past STD booth - within a few minutes you will see Embassy Riding School on your right. On your return, instead of turning back, you could go straight ahead of the riding school and the road touches Bellary Road after about 3 kms - ask for Bellary Road if you have a doubt - beautiful drive.

P.S: Ai Cavalli means the Horse Whisperer, I am told, by my friend Nikhil Kaushik (For interesting stories on Nikhil, contact me!). Watch the movie The Horse Whisperer if you believe in Kindness, and love horses, beautiful Montana mountains, and Rober Redford's warm melting eyes!

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