Chitti Dosa

 Tucked away in one of the bylanes of KPHB, right opposite to the Indu Fortune Annexe gate, Chitti Dosa lives up to its name and literally serves chitti (small) dosas enabling you to eat multiple instead of just one 😊. Almost all of their dosas are awesome, but if you had to pick then I would recommend the masala and the upma dosas, at the very least! We also tried Onion Dosa, Karam Dosa, Chutney Dosa and just the plain dosa – none of them have disappointed! On a cloudy morning, you should go there and have their piping hot Sambar Idly – and you will probably end up thanking the chef for the happiness your taste buds just experienced!

Gappe-Vappe at Almond House

 Oh my my! What an amazingly amazing place this is. I never tire myself from recommending this place to almost everyone who wants to eat great chat! Both the taste and the presentation are a delight. The Pani Puri with three different flavours of pani – mango, pomogrenate and pudina are superb. The Dahi Puri served on a cart will cool down all the heat from the Pav Bhaji Fondue! The Dahi papdi or the Dahi Samosa chat are also very good. Three beans chat is tangy and sweet and awesome!  Oh, I can go on and on! You just go and eat there! 

Krishnapatnam

True to their name, they offer many telugu cuisine dishes. The Gongura Mutton curry, Kamju Pitta fry and the Nalli Ghost biryani are quite tasty. The Natu Kodi curry along with white rice is yet another combination that must be tried here. I am not a curd-loving person but I heard that the curd rice is also quite good here, after all that spicy stuff you just had! This place is often quite full, no wonder!

Rajamundry Ruchulu

This restaurant came up at a place where far too many shops or restaurants closed earlier! However, Rajahmundry Ruchulu seemed to have clicked well, going by how people are flocking it for their curry combos! You have the option of choosing 3, 6 or 9 curry combo along with their Bagara rice or white rice. The Bagara rice has a good coconut flavour to it, typical of Rajamundry 😊. Chicken, Natu Kodi, and Mutton curries are really good here. This is comfort food that is equally tasty. They also have the famous Rajamundry Rose Milk on their menu!

Sri Vyshnavi

 Every single item is very spicy here. Good spicy I mean. They offer the small prawns curry that is not offered at many places in the city. And it’s really awesome to have with plain white rice (+rasam if you want!). Their mixed non veg pulao is also a test to your taste buds when it comes to spice 😊. The mutton curry and the fish pulusu are also quite good. However, the best dish according to me is their pachi pulusu ! Perhaps because of the relief it brings after all the spicy stuff. This is only a curry take away point and not a dine-in place, in KPHB.

Winnis Cake and Café

Located on the 13^th Phase road of KPHB, Winnis cakes are surely a winner 😊. Their strawberry cake and the chocolate cake were really fresh and very tasty. The students of the school where these cakes were cut were also very happy with the taste! This is a veg only place. For sure, more orders will go to this place regularly.

Red Bean Café

 In recent times, multiple bakeries have opened up on the KPHB 9^th Phase road. Red Bean Café is one such café, but what caught my eye was the various Medovik pastries they offer. These pastries are honey based and I had a Russian Medovik for the first time in Concu. Red Bean Café serves different varieties of these medovik cakes and they don’t disappoint you much. Their sandwiches are also quite tasty but their offering is their cappuccino! I think they also do double shot by default, like how Smoky Box Organic does!

Qaffeine Qoffee

Well, the name says what you should have there. I liked their coffee – the hot double shot cappuccino and the classic cold coffee. They do serve snacks but I haven’t tried them out yet.

Ohri’s Cake Nation

I occasionally order cakes from here while visiting schools and have always found their cakes to be fresh and tasty! Especially their Chocolate Truffle Cake and Black Forest Cake are very good and I’ve repeated these specific orders atleast 2-3 times. The children at the school have also given overwhelming feedback

SV Pulav and Sea Snack

I’d recommend that you directly order from Swiggy/Zomato instead of going here to pick up. This place is basically run by the same folks who run the Hibachi meat shop, in Kukatpally. Their Pulav is truly one of the best in the town – you can try either the chicken or the mixed pulav. You may complain about the quantity of chicken in the pulav but you will forget all that once you start eating the pulav! Their Fish Fry and Chicken Fry are also very good – these are deep fried dishes but retain a very good spicy taste! 

Meenakshi Parcel and Catering

For simple pleasures of life, the curry points in Kukatpally are the best! Meenakshi is once such place – white rice, chicken fry, Joint Chicken Fry and Mutton Fry were all very nice. The spices weren’t overpowering and that’s what made me enjoy the meals from this place even more.

Biryani Stories

Though no stories can be told about Biryanis here 😊, the food definitely hasn’t disappointed. I got bored of the usual dum biryani so had the Raju Gari Biryani and Chicken-65 biryani. The typical Raju Gari Biryani in various places is a little wet but it was not so in this case. They also added red food colour but I still liked the taste. The Chicken 65 biryani was also good but the most surprising offer was the Gongura Mutton! They had ample amount of mutton (many places don’t do this much mutton!) with the right proportion of gongura mixed. I was ruing that I didn’t order White rice along with this! Also, there are very few places that serve authentic Godavari prawns – turns out Biryani stories is one such place 😊. The place definitely will be visited multiple times!  

Unnathi Grand

I was searching for Nalli Ghosht and turns out that there is this place very close to home that has this item! The dish was sumptuous, and more importantly they served two Nallis thereby doing proper justice to the dish! Their Andhra Chicken curry is also very spicy and tastes good! Masala Kulcha with this Andhra chicken curry is a very good combination! 

Hashtag Cafe

The best part of the visit was that we were able to play the tumbling tower game – Jenga blocks – while we were waiting for our order 😊. The Mexican Hot wings were hot but weren’t Mexican. They tasted more like Chinese schezuan but the taste was definitely good so no complaints! We had Kung Pao Chicken Fried Rice. The taste was indeed good, but as I continued to eat I was eventually able to figure out that the salt was a little high! It’s a minor quibble because the quantity and taste were both apt. Their wall has a lot of “Marim Bula” bottles. I thought this was some sort of a liquor brand, only to figure out later that these are all just flavoured syrups! The embarrassment was real 😉 – but what else can you expect from someone who doesn’t drink!

Jaitra Food Court

This is literally tucked away deep into the lanes of Kukatpally’s Vivekananda Nagar colony. Actually this is close to the DAV public school but is still tucked away in a small lane. We went here because of some rave reviews from my cousins – unlimited breakfast for 70 rupees! And the best part came at the end, when they give you the “Ragi Java”. Words cannot begin to express the feelings we underwent while having that warm juice which soothed our digestive system! It was really the perfect ending to a perfect breakfast. Both the Ragi Idly and Plain Idly were awesome; then the masala dosa and poori was too good! Especially the awesome curry they make for the puri made it a deadly combination! Even their Pongal was also tasting very yummy! But I’d return for their Ragi Java anytime!

Jai Bhavani Food Court

On the now busy main road of KPHB Phase 13, this is an all purpose food court offering some very good street food! They open at 7 in the morning and are buzzing till probably 11 in the night! The day begins with a variety of breakfasts and a variety of chutneys (Actually, I’ve seen this only in Kukatpally area where they serve multiple chutneys including Bombay chutney). They also have curries and rice for lunch and dinner. Their Veg curries (especially Bhindi and Brinjal), Chicken Fry, Egg Burji, Egg masala, and chicken curry are all good. Their Leg piece fry isn’t that great though – most times the piece is not cooked through. And then there is also a Chinese Bandi in the same arena – thus completing the troika of Tiffins, Curries and Chinese! Fried Rice and Chilly Chicken is quite tasty here. I’ve seldom been disappointed while getting food from this place!

EMYEE

Some creativity there with the name! I haven’t physically been to this place but ordered a couple of times and liked the food each time. Their Special Chicken Biryani is really good – basically boneless chicken with egg and biryani. Butter Nan and Lachcha Paratha with Tandoori chicken was so filling but definitely not heavy on the tummy!

Gunturolla Vanta

This is a small curries joint on the 13^th phase KPHB road but what they offer is definitely not small! Their mutton curry (normal or gongura) quantity does real good justice to the price – I don’t recollect many places giving this quantity for that price. And oh, the curries are quite tasty too! Chicken fry, Chinthachiguru chicken, mutton curry, guthi vankaya curry and the tomato dal were also very tasty with white rice (ofcourse!). Real comfort food for the tummy!

Ram ki Bandi

One of the legendary places to have breakfast in Hyderabad was Ram ki Bandi. They have now opened branches all over the city. You will know why the fame is well deserved the moment you finish eating one dosa! The spice mix they use (and if you add upma to it) is unique and really gives your taste buds a good experience. I expected their chutney to be a little more tastier but that is just a minor quibble! Enjoy the dosas! 

The Baker’s Dozen

I got very excited with the name and also the menu on the offering. I went ahead and ordered the Chilli Cheese Sourdough bread and the Banana Walnut Cake. The bread was good but then I am so used to eating this at Café Eclat that I realized I cannot like sourdough bread from anywhere else! The Banana Walnut Cake was very good though – they claim it is 100% wheat and nothing to suspect otherwise from the taste.