We cook the way a mother cooks — early, patiently, and slightly too much. Everything on this table began as a recipe nobody bothered to write down, kept alive by the people who still make it every single morning.
Six bowls, endless roti, and nobody leaving before dessert.
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Our story
It started as a kitchen table
Before there were menus and reservations, there was one long table and far too many chairs around it. Neighbours came for chai and stayed for dinner. When the table ran out of room, we opened a door and put up a sign.
Nothing about the cooking changed. The dal still takes a full day. The chutney is still ground in the morning. The roti still goes on the tawa only once you have ordered it — because a roti that waits is a roti that has given up.
From the kitchen
“We don't weigh the spices here. We stop when the whole street can smell what's for dinner.”
The menu
What everyone orders
and then orders again the next week
House favourite
The 24-Hour Dal
₹340
Black urad simmered overnight on a low coal flame with butter, tomato and a whisper of smoke. The dish people drive across town for.
Fried to order
Dadi's Samosas
₹180
Hand-folded pastry, spiced potato and peas, fried to order. Served with mint chutney ground fresh every morning at seven.
Slow charred
Tandoori Gobhi
₹390
A whole cauliflower bathed in hung curd and twelve roasted spices, then charred until the edges go sweet. Comfort with a crust.
Also on the table
Rajma Chawal
Sunday kidney beans, ginger, steamed basmati
₹290
Palak Paneer
Charred greens, house-set buffalo paneer
₹360
Ghee Roti (2)
Rolled to order on the tawa, brushed with ghee
₹70
Aam ka Achaar Thali
Six bowls, rice, roti, pickle, dessert
₹520
Masala Chai
Boiled thrice, cardamom crushed by hand
₹90
Gulab Jamun
Warm, soaked in rose syrup, two to a bowl
₹150
Everything is cooked to order. Tell us about allergies and we will cook around them.
Inside the kitchen
Twelve spices, one pair of hands
Every masala in this kitchen is roasted and ground here, in small batches, because a spice loses its temper the moment it sits in a jar too long. You can usually smell the grinding from the pavement outside at half past six in the morning.
