What is your favorite restaurant?
What is your favorite restaurant?
This question sounds simple… but trust me, it’s not 😄
Because I don’t really have a “favorite restaurant.”
My food choices depend entirely on my mood… and let’s be honest — mostly on my kids’ mood 🙈
So half the time, I’m not choosing the restaurant… I’m just approving it 😄
But… there is one place.
Not fancy. Not aesthetic. No Instagram vibes.
Yet somehow, it wins every time.
Subbayya Gari hotel, Vizag.
Now technically it’s a “thali”…
but calling it just a thali feels like calling a festival “just a day” 😄
You don’t get a plate — you get a banana leaf.
And before you even understand what’s happening,
people start serving you like you’ve been fasting for 3 days.
Chutneys… pappu… rasam… sambar… sabji… porial… podi (powder)…rice…gari (vada)…
papad, achar, chips… buttermilk, curd… sweets…
and everything keeps coming like there’s no full stop in this sentence 🤣
Your taste buds don’t get a break.
They go from “wow” to “what is this magic?” to “okay I’m full”…
and then suddenly —
“just one more bite” 😄
And the best part?
You sit there, eating with your hands, on a banana leaf…
and somehow it feels more satisfying than any fancy fine-dine place.
No overthinking. No menu confusion. No “what should we order?” stress.
Just sit… eat… and surrender 😄
So no, I don’t have a favorite restaurant.
But if happiness had a taste…
it would probably be served on a banana leaf at Subbayya Gari hotel 💛✨
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—Rajeshwari 🧿💕
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