BENGALURU: If you have made many rounds around the city to have traditional food, your search ends right in The New Indian Express Building on Queen’s Road.
The newly-opened restaurant Spicy Indian Restaurant has come up with the concept of serving Naati Style food with flavours from Karnataka’s villages.
“A lot of people here crave traditional food. But it’s not easy to find,” says Manjula Manoj, the proprietrix of the restaurant. “I had this idea for a while now and just thought now was the time to start.”
The naati flavours stand out in the non-vegetarian food prepared at the restaurant. The meat is cooked in with skin. The gravy is just the right texture, with generous helpings of spices and coconut.
Chef Venkatesh Sundar, has specialised in making naati food.
With many offices in the area, the restaurant has seen a good demand for its meals. And, they have a wide variety – South Indian Meals, North Indian Meals, Mudde Meals Veg, Mutton Meals, Chicken Meals, Roti Curry and Curd Rice Meal. “While every meal comes with certain dishes, each can be customised,” says Manjula.
We tried south Indian vegetarian and chicken meals which were priced at `50 and `100 respectively. The vegetarian meals came with a dessert, palya (vegetables cooked with minimum spices), sambar, rasam, raita, puris, rice and papad. The food is spicy and can be appreciated by a person with a palate for Indian food. The chicken meal has dry and fried non-vegetarian dishes along with one curry and sambar. We chose to have puri and rice. It is a functional meal, filling and nutritious since they serve ragi mudde as an option.
The roti-curry meal has a curry, dal and one tandoori roti. Priced at `50, it’s good for a light lunch at work.
Apart from the regular meals, one can opt for naati-style mutton and chicken dishes which include naati koli chicken, mutton ghee roast and mutton pepper dry. Seafood lovers and egg lovers have options too.
To give a perfect end to the meal, you can choose from fresh juices and milkshakes. There are ice-creams to choose from as well.