New Delhi: Double up the fun of this Indian Premier League (IPL) season with a string of pubs and restaurants across the country offering tempting deals on delectable food items, funky mocktails and cocktails - all topped with the advantage of watching the cricket extravaganza on big projector screens.
Be it in Delhi, Kolkata, Bangalore, Mumbai or Chennai, the IPL matches, which kickstarts at Kolkata's Eden Gardens Wednesday, is set to grip the young and old alike till May 26.
Cashing in on the craze will be lounge bars, pubs and eateries with some even offering free drinks or shots on every sixer or a wicket - and a whole lot of them adding special decorations to create a suitable environment for cricket lovers.
Zebaa, a newly-opened lounge in the capital's Greater Kailash 2 area, has introduced snack-and-drink packages. It has five different packages - Bouncer, Googly, Stumped, Hat-trick and Power Play, and its ambience has also been modified.
"We have made a nine-foot long bat with the entire IPL schedule on it. Three projectors have been installed in the lounge with loudspeakers, which can help people listen to the commentary," Vinay P. Singh, general manager (Operations), Zebaa, told IANS.
One of its packages has vegetarian and non-vegetarian finger food with a herbal sheesha, six Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) or six pints of beer in just around Rs.1,500, while another offers cricket fans a one-plus-one treat on IMFL and a 20 percent discount on all food and herbal sheesha.
The Stumped package costs a mere Rs.1,100 for a bucket of eight beers.
