Sri Ruchi Restaurant — Restaurant in Bengaluru

Sri Ruchi Restaurant: They serve #vegetarian & #nonvegetarian food here. This location being on 1st floor of the building, found NO #wheelchairaccessible entrance here. Called at 7:30pm IST to confirm--they do serve Andhra-Meals in the evening. Call-receiving person sounded humble : "Sir! You can place any food-order via Swiggy or #ubereats or any other #delivery options". Told him like visiting the place. "Sure Sir! Meals is readily available." {Felt like they get better benefit or profit via food #delivery options}. Visited this place on 18-Mar-2019 evening around 8pm. For Two-Andhra-Meals! East-Indian-Looks-Guys (EILG) in South-Indian-food Restaurant. Anyways the waiter said: "Sir! Meals mein time lagega" (Meals will take more time compared to other dishes). We had decided totally on Meals, so waited. Within 10mins, another waiter served us with Green-Banana leaves. {So looks like in order to get other food-items sold, they intentionally side-line Meals-order}. First EILG served Dal-curry on the leaf, without Rice. Requested to pour the curry over Rice. Somehow they seemed bit ignorant about it. Here their Andhra-Meals consisted of Cooked-White-Rice, Dal-curry, Rasam, Curd, Gulab-Jamun (Sweet-dish) and oh! Sambhar-curry (Mind you! Its Sugary-or-Sweet rather than normal generic spicy Sambhar). Felt nobody guided Serving guys how-to serve south-indian food or even maybe dropping rice onto the Banana leaves. The serving part looked bit "dropping the items on the leaf" kind of arrangement then. And they ran out of cooked Rice as well. When enquired, got a response: "Sir! They're heating up the cold-rice". The Sambhar-curry totally changed my eating-experience from bland to worse. Cost:...

Food was just OK... Not like people have rated 5 star., however there plenty of other good restaurants serving similar cuisine with better ambience and better food. We had to ask everthing as we took meals The basic of Andra meals needs to have Andra pickle, pappu (Andra Dal), papad in a lunch He dint serve ghee, we asked He dint provide papad, we asked He dint provide spoons, we asked He dint provide pickle, we asked

We had ordered chilli gobi, I don't know why did he add a barbecue sauce and made that as a sweet gobi chilli... God knows what was running in chef's mind.

When we asked him for a forks or spoons they were not in shape pics attached. I think he uses the forks to open some tin cans I guess.

Overall experience not a great place to have lunch.

Dishes were not even tasty and not that great.

Guys think twice before...

Besides the andhra thali served on a banana leaf, for which i visit at least once a week (cant stay away from their fresh ground chutney) - the chef is pretty good at north indian and indian-chinese preparation as well. with the price of Dal gone up, their sambar has become watery! but they've kept the thali price the same at ~125. super value i would say. their mixed meat fried rice is very good and so is the butter chicken and naan/rotis. we've tried their sizzler once, but never ordered it again. the staff are smiling and attentive. over 5yrs, we are a regular at this place - they know what we would order :-) one of those few restaurants where most of the staff have stayed the same over all...