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Restaurants in Kodaikanal
Situated in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, where the chief diet thrives on rice, population of Kodaikannal enjoy rice as their staple food, as well.
Restaurants in Kodaikanal serve steamed rice with variety of curries and condiments.
Restaurants in Kodaikanal also serve other delectable rice and dal preparations like dosa, idli, kuttu, vada, uttappam, sambhar and rasam.
Travellers can enjoy freshly prepared aromatic filter coffee at tea stalls and coffee joints spread across the hill station. Interestingly, it is the Indian version of Italian espresso and cappuccino.
Cuisine of Kodaikanal:
Restaurants in Kodaikanal serve delectable preparations of vegetarian and non-vegetarian dishes along with cont inental food recipes. However, it is best to enjoy the local food in the form of bland rice cakes and tangy meat curries.
The Kodaikanal cuisine includes stimulating combination of meats, seafood and vegetables, flavoured with a variety of spices and usually cooked in coconut milk. Generous amounts of spices are used in the cuisine to aid digestion, while satiating your taste buds, leaving a lingering taste in your mouth for which you desire to come back year after year.
Family restaurants in Kodaikanal, Kodaikanal vegetarian restaurants or Kodaikanal non- vegetarian restaurants all serve delicious gourmet cooked in hot spices, mellowed in the coconut milk. Curry leaf, tamarind, asafoetida, mustard seed and chillies are the favourite regular spices added to any dish.
What to eat?
Do not be surprised if family restaurants in Kodaikanal delicious cuisines are served on banana leafs of green colour, and you need to use your fingers to eat that food. The hot spiced meal ends on a sweet note with dessert like payasam.
The efforts that are made in culinary by different communities of Kodaikanal bring out specially in various food dishes of wide variety.
People belonging to the Hindu community has specialised in tasty vegetarian food like sambar, rasam, kaalan, kichadi, pachadi, olan, aviyal and thoran.
Meanwhile people belonging to muslim and Christian community has specialised in non-vegetarian food.
One of these kinds is paithari, it is a pancake made from flour of rice and dish of rice usually called biryani (rice cooked by mixing them with onions, some sort of meat and various kinds of chillies) are Muslim culinary extravaganza.
There are number of fish dishes like cheeda, churuttu, achappam, kozhalappam, are the delights prepared by the Christian community.
Restaurants in Kodaikanal serve a typical Kodai breakfast encompassing puttu (rice powder with grated coconut, steamed and cooked together), dosa and chutney, idlee and samber, idiappam, appam (pan cakes made from rice flour, which is fermented in the trench of coconut’s palm).
Kodaikanal offers refreshing mineral water to quench your thirst and ease down the gastronomic delights down your throat.Eden Paradise Restaurant, Paradise Compound, Laws Ghat Road. Serves Tasty ethnic Keralite cuisine
Astoria Veg Reasturant - This is one of the best vegetarian reasturant in the Kodai
Rasoi, 106 Maratha Shopping Complex, Annasalai. Serves excellent gujarati and veg. Punjabi thali. The Chola batora and alu paratha are their specialities.
Tibetan Brothers - PT Road. The food is mouth watering and authentic Tibetan and Chinese. Try the steamed pork momo or the Thukpa. The owner who doubles up as a waiter is very courteous - and very passionate about his country. So the restaurant walls are plastered with photos of Lhasa, Potala palace and the Dalai and Panchen lamas.
Tava, 7 road junction. Outstanding Sindhi food, express service.
Pine & Petals, JC Residency,Convent Road,Naidupuram. Multi-cusine restaurant.
Sree Krishna Restaurant Bhojanalaya, Nellai Nadar Bazaar, Fairy Falls, Pambarpuram (Kodaikanal, 624103), 9047856670. 100% pure veg Bhojanalaya, serving North Indian, Rajashthani & Gujarati food
PotLuck, PT Road (Opposite the milk union). 10:30-7:00. A cute little European style cafe with outdoor seating on the verandah(balcony); PotLuck serves fresh food and off-the-shelf delicacies carefully cooked in Kodai kitchens. The fresh food consists of an international menu including pastas, quesadillas, sandwiches, Spanish omelettes and waffles/pancakes. A great place to hang out for either a meal or a snack - and be sure to order either their special cappuccino or Mayan hot cocoa! You can take away off-the-shelf items like coffee-bean chocolates, lemon curd, Mexican salsas, garlic pickles and marmalades. All profits go towards providing scholarships for needy children. Rs.40-70.
Cloud Street, PT Road. 8:30-8:30. Serves pasta, sizzlers, Continental food and other international cuisine. The barbeque chicken sizzlers, pastas, lemon cake and the chocolate biscuits are really yummy.
Chocolate factory, (Near Petrol Station). Chocolate factory - Good collection of home made chocolate. They also have a good varieties of fruit syrup filled chocolate. Try the hot chocolate, Rs 60 per cup.
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