Patel Plaza — Attraction in Scottdale

How to Get there: You’ll definitely need to take a cab or a car. Since if you’re here you’ll end up buying a lot of stuff which would be difficult to carry if you’re taking the Train.

This place is famous for Indian store called Patel Bros. Which is a chain of stores where you can find everything which is required for cooking Indian food or following the Indian traditions. Every Indian would make at least one trip to this place every month. You’ll find almost everything there which you need in an Indian household. The people at the cash counter are Indians and they treat you in an Indian way with a lot of respect. They are humble and polite. They will also help you find stuff since this place is huge and it’s difficult to categorize some things. You just have to ask. You can even find Parle-G and Maggi. Which is something you want to have in your house. And for the people who don’t how to make roti or chappati. You can find half-cooked roti there which you can just flip over the pan a couple of times and they’ll be ready. Patel Bros. is a life saver for Indians here in Atlanta.

Also, this place has a restaurant called gokul. This is more of a sweet shop. They have rows of Indian sweets and they also have a kitchen which serves Indian street food. I had pani purri and pav bhaji. Both of them were amazing. Though the water for the pani purri was a bit cloudy which is not something I have ever seen but it’s not a deal breaker. You can make a trip out of this. Shop for food and then eat at gokul. A...

Patel brothers is the largest Indian departmental store in entire US. It offers wide variety of things from different parts on India. Mainly Gujarati, north & south Indian foods along with sweets. It also offers 16-20 different types of Gujarati snacks. You can also get puja related items. They also sell kitchen utensils. The only area where they lack is that they never offer any kind of discounts like other grocery chains offer namely Publix, Kroger, Walmart, Aldi etc... The only time they'll put anything on sale is on only Indian festivals or when something is running out of expiration date. One imp thing to be aware of is to make SURE that you check the expiration dates on all the items.. They usually put new labels over original labels with changed expiration dates. If you peel the sticker, you'll see the REAL expiration date. Please be aware & don't let them fool you into buying out dated...

A great marketplace for Indian grocery shopping, Indian restaurants and much more. It includes Patel Brothers which is an Indian grocery store where you can find Indian spices & sauces, fruits & vegetables, snacks & sweets wheat flour, rice, different types of vegetable oils, butter & ghee, utensils etc. Then there are few Indian restaurants where you can get Indian cuisines including South Indian cuisines like Dosa, Idli, Uttapam etc as well common snacks like chat papdi, gol-gappa, Chhole-Bhature and Shed & smoothies, Indian style tea & videos etc. There are other important businesses as well like jewelry shops, barber shops etc.

Just behind it (across the road), there is another Indian grocery...