Restaurants in Bhubaneswar

Restaurants in Bhubaneswar - Being close to the coast, sea food, of course, is quite an attraction, both in local and distant cuisine.

Oriya cuisine comprises mainly of rice, fish, vegetables, coconut, milk products and pulses. Restaurant like Chandan in Hotel Swosti Plaza and Dalma (270, Sachivalaya Marg, M.S. Nagar) serve traditional Oriya cuisine. Meat and chicken now feature on most of the menus. Seafood is popular and one can enjoy the best of prawns, lobsters and a wide variety of fish. Orissa’s specialties are cakes (Pithas) of powdered gram like chakudi, kakara, monda and arisa.

Some surprisingly reasonable good eating joints are the Mayfair Lagoon Resort’s food court, Panorama, the coffee shop at the Swosti Plaza hotel, Café Coffee Day and other restaurants in the Marrion Hotel complex, Venus Inn in Bapuji Nagar and Govinda's in the ISKCON temple. For fine dining Lemon Grass - the Chinese Continental and Thai food restaurant at the Mayfair Lagoon, Pal Heights, Mirch Masala at the Marrion, and Bollywood 70 at The Crown are worth a visit. The golden fried prawns and flavoured Thai fried rice in Lemon Grass is divine. Pal Heights’ crisp roomali roti and Chinese delicacies are not to be missed. Mirchi Masala makes the best suta kabab and chicken lababdar east of Oudh, Bollywood 70 of Crown Hotel is famous for the Mughlai dishes and its biryani provides the ultimate satisfaction to the taste buds.

Café Coffee Day and Barista are the dens for the young. The place blasts with music till midnight.

The busy Market Building located in the heart of the city offers mouth watering roadside eateries with Balia Piaji, Chat, Ghu-guni, gup-chup, dahi-bara etc.