धनबाद Dhanbad (DHN): Passengers at Dhanbad railway station will be able to enjoy a bigger bite at a new multi-cuisine food plaza that was inaugurated recently by the Divisional Railway Manager Dhanbad Division Mr.B.B.Singh. Comesum, as it is known, will be the excellent eatery set up at the station just at the entrance of the station premises.
Set up at a cost of Rs.40 lakh, the new eatery will make travelling a delectable experience. The plaza will serve fast food items, Chinese, North Indian, South Indian and Continental dishes, snacks, beverages and ice creams. It will remain open round the clock for passengers.
“Seating arrangement for 15 are made at the Comesum plaza so that passengers can enjoy our food while waiting for their trains,” said an official of Comesum. The facility is a part of infrastructure development undertaken by Indian Railways after Dhanbad got A1 status last August.
Apart from this food plaza, escalators were set up at platform No. 2 and 3 in March, while elevators will also come up by the year-end.
About Comesum – the Food Junction:
Ten years back, a passenger travelling by train was satisfied with the kind of food that was served at railway station. It could be one of the standards which was being available at most of the railway stations in India. It is no longer the case now. With today’s customers being more quality conscious and knowing better than just to pick up food from an average hawker, looks more at multi cuisine delicacies. This has been primarily possible only when Rahul Agrawal, Abhishek Agrawal and a cousin Rajiv Mittal set up Comesum, a multi cuisine food café at Pune railway station in a response to tenders invited by the Indian Railways for cafeterias around railway station by taking food to the next level.
Today, Comesum Food Plaza is a brainchild of RK Associates which resumed 35 years ago, started their career from railway catering business.
Seeing the tremendous potential and response and acceptability of quality of food actually gave birth to the new concept of Multicuisine food plaza. (Comesum) a 24 hours camping of nonstop eating. Comesum provides a heady combination of glamour, glitz and surreal surroundings in addition to tongue tickling food like hot crispy vada, gulab jamuns, ice creams et al.the organization is a valid member of Snack food Association, Virginia, and HACCP certified company with a very stringent guideline for food processing and serious food safety norms. Comesum established its reputation with quality as its main hallmark of all success. It is an ISO certified, and a national member of Federation of Hotels and Restaurant Association of India.
Comesum literally means “Come eat together”. Therefore, it is no wonder that they have something for everybody with over 350 items on the menu. The menu includes Mughlai, Chinese, Continental, south Indian, bakery products and also street food like chaat. Gujarati and Marathi food are also on their way to become popular Comesum bites very soon. What’s more? The cooks come from different regions so that the taste is authentic and culturally rich in every form. Since Comesum caters to the tastes of people from different regions. It becomes necessary to ensure the regional flavor is present in all the delicacies. Now a north Indian passenger who disembarks from a train and visits Comesum will get to eat Rajma Chawal that tastes just like the one available in Delhi. Comesum has an advantage over other food cafes because they serve both vegetarian and no-vegetarian food and therefore have more variety.
Not only is Comesum the best choice for traditional food at any hour of the day, it is also a safe place for women and children to be in. Trains in India have a knack for getting delayed to unpredictable times and therefore the ambience at Comesum along with the added advantage of hygienic sanitation facilities and entertaining open area activities for kids come in handy provides area of great sit down meals and a rendezvous for families who can utilize their time more sensibly and do not miss their homes while await for their respective trains.
Talk of the cuisine and the place offers array of flavors to pamper your taste buds with a variety of delicacies through its extensive menu offering Indian to Punjabi, Hyderabad to South Indian, Chinese to Italian Cuisine, be it the main course, combo meals or healthy snacks with favorite juices mock tails and drinks of your choice, the place offers it all under one roof.
The best of beverages – hot or cold, all is served here. With a choice of lassi, kesar milk, slush, shakes and refreshing mock tails to sip on, one can try the tandoori kebab assortment for starters. These include veg and non veg kebabs with roomali rotis. Once you are through with the drinks or starters, you can move on to the main course and take your pick from a menu that features delectable fare. You could pamper your plate with delicacies of your choice from a range of different veg & non veg, Indian, Chinese and Punjabi food. The chaat range of food includes many varieties of samosas like potli samosa, veg samosa, alloo samosa, paneer chilla and especially the khatsta kachori is not to be missed. Since the menu is wll priced and easy on the pocket, one can relish a variety of dishes. There are different sections for biryanis and Chinese delectable’s. Scrumptious lip smacking range of food thalis and different paranthas like daal parantha and jodhpuri paranthas served with cooling raitas and mint chutney are also some of the attractions of the place. For those with a sweet tooth there is wide range of traditional sweets like kulfi in kesar and badaam flavor, raj bhog, chamcham, kesar pista milk and bakery delectable’s.
The Directors of the company Mr.Rahul Agrawal, Abhishek Agrawal Mr.Rajiv Mittal opines that having good quality and hygienic food at an affordable price is the right of every citizen in the surroundings, but not anymore now. The market history for these kind of restaurants has climbed high ladders to make in the most preferred brand in the food industry. Reaching the huge number of food lovers is the vision & motto of works satisfaction. A chain of Multi cuisine restaurants that is open 24 hours. Comesum is the culmination of expertise and experience in the food business for over 35 years. It brings together the need for food with the glamour of good cuisine, to tempt and satisfy the average Indian traveler.
The recent times have seen Comesum transformed from just catering to the eating needs of railway travelers to catering to the needs of the late night party going crowd. Comesum being a 24/7 outlet is also the after party hangout of the young and the happening with many thronging in at the late night hours to grab a bite after some hardcore dance moves. Comesum truly comes alive in the night with people from different walks of light coming in together to grab a bite. It looks like a will lit island isolated from the hustle and bustle of the city life where one can just relax, eat and catch up with friends.