Sunny Djaba

Its a nice place to visit for Punjabi food. It gives you a typical dhaba experience but with 5star hotel rates. It offers normal chair seating as well as the typical 'khatiya' with takiyas. We order chicken and paneer starters and both turned out to be delicious.Main course was the chicken with roti and veg biryani and it was good as well.They serve liquor and sheesha too. The staff is very cordial and service was relatively fast for such a big seating capacity. It had nice big open parking lot. Wash rooms were clean and well maintained.

Sunny da Dhaba is a Dhaba with a twist. When we think of a dhabha we think about a highway restaurant but this one is more of a lounge situated on a national highway. The ambience is amazing and has appealing looks, they have multiple table arrangements for small families to large groups with modern cots and chairs. One special thing about this place is that they serve you sweet curd cucumber/coleslaw, variety of pickles, onion salad and pudina chutney while you wait for your order without any additional charge (Just like North Indian style dhabas). They have a small garden and play area for kids and also a paan shop for paan lovers. Now coming to the most important point, quantity, quality and cost of food. They serve alcoholic drinks as well and the cost is quite high just like any lounge in metro cities. Food quantity is good for a couple with an average diet if one dish is ordered. Quality and hygiene is very high as compared to local dhabas, washrooms are very well maintained and clean like multiplexes. The cost of food is on the higher side, a small family with 2 kids can generate a bill around 2000 - 2500 without including alcoholic drinks. Overall this is a very good lounge named as a Dhaba but expensive.

Before heading back to Mumbai, we visited the og sunny da dhaba for our dinner. They serve North Indian cuisine on the old highway. I don't like that you have to pay tolls to visit these dhabas for food even after paying the expressway toll as well. We ordered tandoori mushroom, tandoori babycorn, kadai paneer, makhni dal, laccha parantha, tandoori roti and naan. The wheat breads were a bit too dohey not the best but I dont expect amazing North Indian in this region anyways. Everything else was tasty and well made. The dhaba is clean and the staff is very polite. The service is a bit slow and we had to wait quite a bit for our food. The washrooms were clean with no bad odour. There is a quaint play area and children's rides but they were shut at night. They play good music with videos on their projector which really gives the place a nice vibe. When we arrived they were playing old school Bollywood classics and the dhaba felt like a time capsule from the 80s with the staff uniform and the decor and setting it was very quaint and nostalgic. Later into the night they were playing recent hit tunes. Great highway dhaba experience.