District High | Lounge Bar and Garden — Restaurant in Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation

Sony's cave is one of the oldest restaurant in Bhubaneswar. During my childhood days it only used to be a restaurant and there was no bar here. After my exams me and my parents would often visit this restaurant for dinner. I loved their ambience. The interior was like a cave structure with dim lights and smooth music playing around to give you a soothing kind of feeling. When I was in my college days I came to know that this restaurant has been converted into a both bar cum restaurant. But the ambience remained same which was perfect for your friends to hang out and have some beers. But yesterday I visited this restaurant after a long time. Before the entrance was kind of entering into a cave. But this time Sonu's Cave has been completely changed. The whole interior has been modernised like you see in other bars. So no more cave ambience and dim lights. And I knew at that moment that I would miss the old Sonu's Cave. However the food and service quality has remained same and...

WHAT DO I SAY? WHERE DO I START?

If you are a 90s kid and you grew up in Bhubaneswar; you have definitely hard about the legend of Somu's Cave. I mean the name might have changed some time back but the legend lives on.

This place is my first ever beer with my elder brother. This place is my first ever drinking party with the boys. This place I think has seen it all. We used to come here because of the unnecessarily dingy vibes and nonchalant crowd. If you want to spend a quiet afternoon without giving a lot of ducks about who is there and who isn't; Sonus is the natural choice.

Now, addressing the elephant in the room. I know the place has been done up and the CAVE is a thing of the past now but I am a staunch believer in change. And i would like to take this opportunity to embrace this new avatar of Sonu as a seemingly plush bar space.

Nothing else has changed though. Just feeling bad for the current generation who will never get to experience the Legend of...

What a rip off.......So here we go, I order a corona pint and a jagermeister shot. The guy comes with the pint says sorry we run out with the shot. Great I say, how about a Glenlivet shot. Sure Sir! Again returns ..... Sorry Sir we don't have that one too. Ok what do you have? Akashi Oak. Great, get me a 30ml. Atlast got something. Already pissed with the service and dirty environment, asked for the bill. Here he comes with 1800. I was like, what? 30ml Akashi cost 1500 and it's not in their menu. They have Glenlivet 18 years, which cost 850 for 30 ml. Glenlivet 18 years cost 15k a bottle and Akashi Oak is 5.5k a bottle. How come these people are still running this place by ripping people...