Birthday Celebration

Special occasions demand special celebration. It’s a social ritual that one has to follow to be able to answer the questions that follow every wish “So what plans for birthday/anniversary?” or “So what did you do on your birthday?”. I think celebrating birthdays, anniversaries or any similar occasion is just so overrated. It was all a scam started by the companies to increase consumerism and now it is so deeply ingrained in our brains that we know no other way to spend the day. Why can’t we just take some time off and laze around at home doing just nothing. After all time is such a big luxury these days.

Anyways conforming to the social norms, on my birthday we decided to go for dinner.  The choice of the place was a no-brainer as my husband wanted to take me to Olive Bar & Bistro ever since he went there with office colleagues. The place was a small, dark, quaint place with quite loud music being played by a DJ- overall good ambiance. After waiting for 15 min we got our table. We ordered a risotto and an OB Veg burger. The combination is a bit weird and burger for dinner is not a classic choice but my love for burgers does not care about that. Being from a middle class family there are certain things that you can never get out of your system and one of it is ordering drinks or dessert at an expensive restaurant. I feel dessert and drinks at these places are a steal. So I just skim through the drinks menu just to see the names of the different drinks and then keep it back. It took a little while for our order and the bummer was that the music was so loud that you really cannot have a conversation without increasing the voice decibels so we chose to just enjoy the ambiance and listen to the music that was being played. When the order arrived, we pounced on it like hungry animals.  The risotto was good and even the burger but almost invisible portions of the 2 slaws on the sides were a disappointment. When we were half way through the dinner we started feeling that we would need to order something else owing to the good appetite that both of us have. Thin crust veg pizza was the obvious choice as my husband had so liked it the last time that he wanted me to try it. By the time the pizza arrived we were almost regretting ordering it as we were almost full. But we took it as a challenge. The night ended with getting high on cheese loaded food.