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The procedure is a little elaborate. Take a Central Railway local, get down at Matunga, come out of the station and enter the first building on the left. Climb up to the first floor, gentle South Indian music will greet you, and the bustle of a busy restaurant (lunch 10.30 a.m. to 2.30 p.m., dinner 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.). There is normally a queue, you pick your token and wait, as in a bank. There are newspapers to read in the waiting room, quite pleasant, and, once again as in a bank, an electronically operated indicator which tells which number can go in for the meal.
When your token number comes on the indicator, you enter. The restaurant is divided into two parts: the plate section (Rs.16 per plate meal, with curd, Rs.15, without curd) and the plantain leaf section (Rs.40 per meal, everything unlimited). In the plate (thali) meal, everything is limited, except rassam and sambar, but the food and the kitchen are the same. The two sections are divided by a counter, either Mr. Satish Rama Nayak is sitting at the counter, or his manager, Mr. Pundalik Vasudev Kamath. You are asked whether you want a plate meal or a full meal. Once that is decided, you buy your coupons and settle down. In the plate meal, everything is served together at one go, in the full meal, things are served on your patra, one by one, but eventually the food is the same.
Bang outside Matunga Station, Central Railway, is one of Mumbai's oldest and best known Udipi restaurants, established in 1942. Food is served on plantain leaves, eaten with bare hands, three servings of rice (with rassam, with dal and with dahi), the GSB (Gaud Saraswat Brahmin) special - avial, powder chutney with pure ghee, six payasams for six days, Mondays closed. Leave a Comment Theme: IndianPrice: less than US$10 » Currency ConverterComparison: less expensive than average
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