in Koramangala
I
absolutely loved reviewing Brewhaha, primarily because I spent
4 hours lazing around on one of their many bean bags, drinking
lots of coffee and playing 3 different board games and didn’t
realise so much time had passed.
The
place has an interesting story to tell. Sreeram and Mansur, two
IIMA graduates gave up their fancy jobs in MNCs to start Brewhaha,
a place where one would always find something to do. Brewhaha
is located right next to JNC Kormangala and is no ordinary coffee
shop. It is a community driven entertainment lounge where you
can relax, play 65 different board games that you can rent at
Rs.20 an hour, participate in a hip hop work shop or practice
a hobby. They promise to make it fun for you, especially when
you wake up early (ahem! 2.00pm) Saturday morning and realise
you are going to be doing the same old thing - Hangout at malls,
walk around MG, watch the biggest flop of the year.
While
Mansur is the game freak, Sreeram is the chief chef. They both
go hopping from table to table teaching board games sometimes
telling you the cheat code as well, so one must ensure that they
definitely have them on their team.
I
went there with a whole lot of people and none of us could agree
on one game to play. Going by our collective IQ Sreeram decided
to introduce us to Snorta! A wild game of Moos, Meows and more
(he flatly refused to give us anything more intelligent). Despite
us twits bombarding him with really stupid questions while he
taught us the rules, he was determined to get us to play.
This
game has no strategy and is in fact quite mindless, but it was
a whole lot of fun. Snorta had a lot to do with animal sounds
and all of us were laughing nervously because we felt slightly
stupid ‘Hee Hawing’ around the place, but after we shed
our initial inhibitions the place started to sound like a barn!
Their
menu is interesting as well, I personally recommend the Calvin
Brew shake, a scrumptious combination of dark chocolate and crunchy
peanut butter. Sreeram recommended the artic chilly brew which
was an exciting combination of coffee and chilli and better suited
for the slightly more daring. You may want to read their menu
a little closely as there is a funny story woven around each name.
Here is one for example
The
Home Galaxy Brew
The
Latte – A cappuccino made the milky way
Or
Choco-lixir
Stir
up some fun
The
most expensive thing on the menu is not more than Rs.70 and there
is only one of it, the others have odd price tags like Rs.23 or
Rs.22 making this place extremely affordable not just by Bangalore
standards but by anything I have come across.
We
then played an hour of Taboo and another hour of Quoridor and
I realised I was hooked! Much to our delight the whole affair
cost the 6 of us Rs.500.
Brewhaha
has a cheerful décor done up in blue and orange, coined
with an interesting assortment of furniture that includes bean
bags, cushions, rugs, tables and chairs. The walls have colourful
human figures painted all over and it runs all the way up to the
ceiling. I liked the fact that they hadn’t greedily cluttered
the place with far too many tables so one had a lot of room to
walk around, stretch and laze without worrying about hitting the
person sitting on the next table.
On
the flip side this place does not have any air conditioning and
hence tends to become stuffy. In summers one walks into a restaurant
or café more to beat the heat than to eat food. They wouldn’t
have half as much problem in the monsoons and winters when Bangalore
swings from pleasant to biting cold.
So,
if you're a group of friends looking for something interesting
to do, BrewHaHa is where you want to be. And if you happen to
go there all by yourself don’t worry you’ll always find
Sreeram and Mansur up for a good game of Taboo or Boggle. When
these guys say they take your fun seriously they really live up
to it.
Brewhaha
in a Bite
Cost:
very affordable, meal for 2 Rs.100 - Rs.200
Cleanliness:
excellent
Quality: excellent
Service: excellent
Ambience: excellent
Bottomline: A perfect place for fun, laughs and more.
Log
on to www.brewhaha.in
to catch what’s brewing and maybe you could win a gift voucher
worth Rs.250.
Having said so much about the place you must be curious to know
the brains behind this unique concept. Mansur and Sreeram call
themsleves as two guys who had had too many boring Sundays in
Bangalore with nothing to do and decided to do something about
it and thus was born Brewhaha, where there's always something
to do. They built this place for people to hang out together,
have fun playing a variety of games and have a great culinary
experience with specialty sandwiches and desserts-to-die-for.
Mansur
is the games-guy on the BrewHaHa team and is responsible primarily
for building the game-portfolio and managing the game experience
at BrewHaHa. A passionate gamer (of both the board and computer
game varieties), Mansur's favourite part of setting up BrewHaHa
is that he gets to play games on the job. Mansur did his undergrad
in Computer Science and Engineering at REC Trichy and his MBA
from IIM, Ahmedabad. In between, he completed the mandatory-in-Bangalore
stint as a software engineer with 3 years at IBM.
Sreeram
is a passionate foodie and enjoys creating new and interesting
additions to the Brewhaha menu. He also jointly manages marketing
related activities. Sreeram worked as a Program Manager at Microsoft
in India before quitting to start Brewhaha. Sreeram obtained his
master's in Computer Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder,
and his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
If
you have been to Brewhaha recently and would like to give your
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Neha
giving an overall "Excellent" rating says - Firstly
id whole heartedly like to thank mansur and sreeram for comin
up with such an innovative and fun-filled idea.. Havin coffee
and being wit friends has never been so good. what i love about
this place is the fact that it lets u spend some quality time
wit your pals in a different manner rather than goin out for Just
A coffee,shoppin,movies,etcccc...the food here is great and so
is the service... u so feel at home... ud spend hours here playin
all those different board games nd would always crave to come
back soon.. its \"ADDICTION\"... i highly recommend
this to everyone out there..
