Restaurants in Orissa
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Peace Restaurant
‘Peace Restaurant world famous in Puri but never heard of anywhere else.’ So reads the menu, which features curries, macaroni, the best muesli in town and tasty fish dishes; the fish dopiaza is fab. This simple row of tables with thatch canopies is deservedly popular. Your food might take a while to arrive but it will be worth it, and you can enjoy a cold beer while you wait.
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Khana Khazana
A popular street stall with a few chairs and tables scattered outside. Alfresco diners savour tandoori chicken, chicken biryani or large serves of delicious chow mein featuring chicken, vegetables and prawns. Traditional Bengali hot rolls (try the tandoori chicken) are the cheapest and tastiest snack in town for Rs. 20.
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Tangerine 9
If you’re not ready to surrender to vegetarianism, step in to Tangerine 9 where there’s all the meat you can handle and all the dishes burst with the flavour of fresh herbs and spices. There’s a big range of Indian (especially tandoori) and Chinese, plus some nicely executed Thai dishes. Pan-Asian starters include momos (Tibetan dumplings) and salt-and-pepper prawns. Decor is blonde wood and signature tangerine.
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Hare Krishna Restaurant
The menu says ‘Surrender to the pleasure of being vegetarian’, and it’s not difficult at this excellent veg restaurant. In dimly lit, upmarket surrounds you can enjoy mainly Indian dishes, including a wide range of tasty biryanis and pilaus, along with a good selection of soups and desserts. The lassi is outstanding. It’s upstairs; enter through the shopping arcade.
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Bamboo
A traveller-oriented place with muesli, pancakes and other usual suspects, all in the open air with thatched umbrellas and friendly staff who’ll give you a game of chess when things are quiet. Ask the price of off-menu seafood suggestions before you order; they can cost three times more than anything on the menu.
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New Hong Kong Restaurant
For 18 years the Chen family has been providing authentic Chinese in Sambalpur; we met expats who’d driven 60km cross-country to eat here. The menu also includes several Thai dishes and some tasty Indian-Chinese fusion dishes like Sichuan paneer. Ultraviolet light and doof music at night give it a clubby feel.
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Maurya Gardens
A darkened restaurant where you may have trouble reading the menu of Indian, Chinese and continental dishes. The curries are nice and hot, but if you want a beer to cool it down you’ll have to eat (same menu) in the bar next door. Nearest to the train station, it’s suitable for pre- or post-travel drinks.
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Xanadu Restaurant
Another garden setting with a sandy floor, Xanadu is for the early riser - enjoy a breakfast fry-up or muesli from under the shade of coconut and banana palms. In the evening, over a cold beer and some crunchy pappadam, you can choose between prawns or fish curry or try one of numerous continental dishes.
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Dakshin
Standing out in CT Rd’s string of ageing sand-floor banana-pancake joints, this clean new place has a simple menu of well-prepared South Indian dishes. The excellent thali includes puri (flat dough that puffs up when deep fried) and dessert. There are nice touches like lime-scented finger bowls.
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Truptee Restaurant
This clean and cool basement restaurant has all the South Indian favourites (and it opens at 7.30am, so it’s ideal for an idli – spongy, round, fermented rice cake – and vada breakfast) plus a range of northern curries, including a few good paneer (unfermented cheese) dishes.
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Wildgrass Restaurant
With mismatched sculptures and precarious tree-huts scattered through its grounds, Wildgrass is a secret garden gone wild. The garden surrounds a small restaurant with an Indian and continental menu enlivened with excellent seafood dishes and Orissan specialties.
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Mithai Shop & AC Restaurant
In addition to its range of North and South Indian curries, this place is Jagannath's gift to thali lovers and connoisseurs of Indian sweets and ice cream. Cyclone-force fans make it difficult to hold the menu but are most refreshing when the heat strikes.
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Deep Down South
Here you'll find all the South Indian culprits expertly executed. First have a lassi, and then go for a masala dosa served on a plastic banana leaf, backed with an all-you-can-eat sambar. Room left over? There's a sweet shop attached.
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The Zaika
A clean, modern oasis on busy, dusty Lewis Rd. As well as excellent curries and tandoori there is an extensive Chinese menu but alas no beer. Fresh prawns and pomfret are ritually tandooried on Wednesday and Sunday.
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Honey Bee Bakery & Pizzeria
The pizzas aren’t bad, the pancakes are great, the real coffee, toasted sandwiches and fry-up brekkies (including bacon!) might be just what you’ve been craving, and the lassis are excellent.
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Achha
Another sand-floor garden restaurant, with lilting background sounds of Indian music. Sit under a thatched pavilion and choose seafood and veg dishes from the extensive Indian menu.
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Hotel Golden
Hotel Golden, on the main drag, does a limited selection of mainly veg Indian food, plus recommended local seafood; crab masala (Rs. 100) is the house speciality.
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Park Inn Bar & Restaurant
A cinema-dark bar with attentive waiters always ready to suggest another cold beer. Lots of nice cooking smells from the kitchen make you hungry for chicken, fish or prawn dishes.
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Chung Wah Restaurant
The Chung Wah is a first-rate Chinese restaurant serving the real thing. Favourites on the menu include spring rolls, sweet-and-sours and a commendable Sichuan chicken.
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Golden Green Restaurant
A cosy little restaurant where the best, freshest seafood is not on the printed menu.
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Harry's Cafe
Harry's serves tasty Marwadi basa, strictly vegetarian food without onions or garlic.
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