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Restaurant in Connaught Place
Rated: Good
based on 8 reviews
Saravana Bhavan
46, Janpath, Connaught Place, Delhi
23317755, 23316060
| Locality | Connaught Place |
|---|---|
| Place Type | Restaurant |
| Food Type | South Indian |
| Timings | 8:00 AM to 11:00 PM |
| Price |
  Expensive
|
- Additional Information
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Home delivery
Credit cards accepted
Air conditioned
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first reviewed by rajeshlalwani
- User Reviews (8)
Sep 07, 2008
Authentic South indian restaurant
This is one of the best south indian restaurant this side of vindhyanchal .
Food - Excellent
Service - fast and furious
Price - reasonable
parking - Decent
Aug 12, 2008
14 iddlies...just as good as I had it in Chennai
Bhumika, my colleague wanted to treat me for lunch. She is a pakka vegetarian bramhin from Rajasthan. The Sravana Bhavan was chosen because it's close to our CP office and we wanted to have some Iddli Dosa kind of food.
It's a Friday afternoon, so we had to wait on the pavement after listing our name with the waiter managing the guests at the entrance. After half an hour of waiting we were into the first floor dining hall, the floor manager told us we have to share the table with two other people. Its lunch time and people are waiting outside, so you can't expect the luxury to seat leisurely in a four sitter and waste their time.
I ordered for 14 iddlies, the waiter explained me what it could be. Good that he takes this effort. I am familiar with all Sarvana Bhavan food from my Chennai days...in fact I had survived in Chennai for couple of months on Sravana supplied Veg.Biriyani, Bhendi Masala and Phulka. I noticed the list of items in the menu card is very different from the list we had in Chennai Sarvana Bhavans.
My 14 iddlis landed in a bowl full of Sambar, the Sambar tastes exactly the same...I just liked it. Mini Iddlies are also soft that melts in your mouth. I also ordered for the Butter Milk which was a total disappointment. It took ages to come; the taste was not at all similar to what I used to get in Chennai.
Even though, I will give a 4 star rating just for those amazing 14 idlies.
Aug 12, 2008
Authentic Food
I used to work for this internet start close to a decade back. This was at the height of the dot-com boom when two year old programmers found themselves being referred to as ’senior’ and salaries touched ridiculous heights. Having said that, I’m not complaining, since my income soared too… briefly. Anyhow, I found myself working for one such company and referred a friend to join the company. Soft spoken, shy and a clever programmer, he quickly settled down into his new job and became comfortable with the new city. I must point out here, that I didn’t actually ‘hire’ the chap, nor was he reporting to me.
Then, the bubble burst and overnight thousands found themselves out of jobs. Having quickly surrounded themselves with the trappings of new found wealth, in installments of course, quite a few ‘right-sized’ people bordered on the suicidal. My friend too found himself on the chopping board and guess who was told to fire him? Yup. Me. Try as I might, to explain to the board that I didn’t hire him, nor did he report to me and on top of it all, he’s a friend, nothing seemed to work - the decision was taken. So I did it.
He hadn’t spoken to me since and I don’t blame him for it. Guess who called last week? Yes, it was him and he didn’t have much time - just enough for a quick dinner in Connaught Place and we thought Sarvana Bhawan would be an interesting choice, since I used to exist on their food in Madras and wondered why the place was getting such mixed reviews.
For some reason, most south Indian places in the city have this cheap, old-school canteen ambience and the Tamilian no-Hindi, no-English imports don’t do the service much good either. Saravana Bhawan wasn’t about to rock the boat and is exactly the same, except that they’re running a sweet counter in there as well.
Since we wanted to catch up rather than spend time thinking about what to order, we chose the thalis and a mini-tiffin. The food wasn’t bad. The thali contained a few puris, rice, dal, kovakkai, sambar, rasam, raita, curd, fruit halva, appalam (south Indian version of poppadums), some pickles and more-mulaga. The food tasted good and was quite nice. The mini-tiffin contained miniatures of cooked snack foods like dosa, idli, vada, sambar, chutney and some kesar halva. Everything was cooked well. We also ordered watermelon, mausambi and pineapple juice.
As I said, most of these places are a bit low on service, so if you go there expecting the Ritz, I’m afraid you will probably come back ranting and cursing. On the other hand, a polite word and a smile get you much more than most people who try to establish their ‘customer’ status with a shout, yell or a snap of their fingers. It is amazing how badly most people in this city treat waiters. Pity really.
Anyhow, if you’re looking for an authentic, Tamilian meal sans Ritz style service, Saravana Bhawan is the place for you. The prices are quite reasonable too.
- Sid
http://www.chefatlarge.in
Jun 20, 2008
Must visit for South Indian delicacies
It was hot and sunny Delhi afternoon when I half heartedly ( due to heat) decided to go out for lunch at this restaurant.
As soon as I entered the restaurant, I could feel the cool breeze of the central airconditioning. I was courteously guided to a vacant seat. They have sofas there giving it comfort of a lounge. The menu card was promptly provided and it had a lot of delicacies on it.
We ordered for Rasam , Vegetable Dosa and Onion Utthapam for two of us.
The interiors are well done and it was a nice cool wait for our dishes. The Rasam was served in 5 minutes. alongwith papad. That was followed by chutneys of 3 types.The main dishes arrived in 15 minutes flat. They were neatly placed on top of banana leaf in plates. Although the size appeared smaller than what is served at other South Indian restaurants we have visited, the taste was really good. Extra Sambar was provided without our asking for it.
We spent a good 45 minutes in the restauarant enjoying our lunch and gossips. The coffee we ordered after lunch was good but a bit expensive. It is a bit on a higher side pricewise.
The washroom was clean and fitted with modern fittings.
It was worth every penny spent.
