Savya Rasa

Top choice in Pune


This modern, fiercely regional South Indian restaurant champions the best of India's bottom half and isn't afraid to tell you if you are ordering the wrong bread with the wrong curry. Listen to the staff and you'll have one of the region's best meals.

The Meen Manga Curry (seer fish and raw mango curry in coconut gravy) and tremendously fiery Guntur chilli chicken are flavour bombs, cooked to perfection and made magical when scooped up with the perfect Malabar parotta, a flaky, soft, crisp and layered flatbread that tastes like it's cooked in heaven.


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