ANKAPUR VILLAGE A MILITARY HOTEL — Restaurant in Hyderabad

One of the best places serving authentic Indonesian food in Madhapur is sambal. This restaurant is located on the roadside attracting people passing by the road. The place had both outdoor and indoor seating.

The ambience of this place is classic and the Indonesian paintings on the walls make the place look even more cool and will surly capture your attention as soon as you enter the place.

The outdoor seating had beautiful lights all over the place making it a perfect place to sit and eat for couples. This place has a soothing music playing in the background. The staff here are friendly .

I’ve been to this place with a group of foodie friends of mine for dinner.

Food :

Welcome drinks: Es kelapa muda - It was a coconut water based drink. It was served chill and a had a good taste.

MMM- This drink is a combination of mango juice ,watermelon juice and mint leaves. This drink was refreshing but a bit spicy.

We also tried soups: laksa sayuran, sup jamur Sup kambing Soto banjara All the soups had good taste.

Starters: Bakwan goreng bala- It is basically an Indonesian vegetable fritter. It was a simple dish presented in a really appealing way and tasted really good.

Kulit lumpia goreng sayuran-

Lumpia means spring rolls in Indonesia. These were cigar shaped,crispy outside and had flavourful veggies inside. I personally loved this dish.

Terong goreng -

This is made of egg plant.It had a good flavour and satisfied my taste buds with its taste.

Tumis bok choy tahu Pachimirapa paneer vepudu were the other starters we tried. They had average taste.

Ghee roast prawns-

This was the best starter amongst all. This dish had good aroma of ghee and was flavourful. This is a must try dish at this place.

Satay ayam saus kacang- This was chicken satay with delicious peanut sauce over it. This dish had an amazing presentation and looked mouthwatering. This sauce was rich in flavour and overall the dish tasted great.

Main course: Mie goreng sayuran- This is a noodles dish.It was spicy and had good amount of veggies . This dish looked colourful and tempting.

Clay pot gongura pulao- Gongura being one of the famous leafy vegetable is used to make chutney In Andhra. The combination of gongura and steam rice had a delightful taste.

Live natukodi pulusu- This was a combo of natukodi pulusu ,steam rice ,fried rice and pachi pulusu. The natukodi pulusu had a great blend of flavours. It tasted good with steam rice and fried rice. The pachi pulusu was tangy and tasty.

Dessert : We had chocolava and brownie sundae . Both of them tasted the great. These deserts were the perfect ones to end a great meal.

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If you're considering visiting this place, let me save you the trouble: don’t bother. Sure, the food might taste good, but trust me, that is the only thing this establishment has going for it. Unfortunately, the issues with staff, service, and hygiene are so shockingly bad that no amount of flavor can redeem this disaster.

Staff? If you like rude, uninterested people who seem to despise their job and you as a customer, then this is your spot. They audibly sigh while taking orders, make zero effort to engage, and spend more time chatting amongst themselves than actually working. God forbid you need anything extra—catching their attention is like chasing after the wind, and they actively avoid eye contact. They're clearly here to get a paycheck, and it shows.

Service? Calling it 'service' is generous. Be prepared to wait forever, and even then, your food might be wrong. They purposely leave your dishes sitting on a communal table for ridiculous amounts of time instead of bringing them to you. It’s almost as if they go out of their way to make the dining experience miserable. No effort, no care—just lazy and negligent.

Hygiene? Where do I even begin? This place is a health hazard. Cockroaches roam freely, and dirty food is stuck in the edges of tables like it’s part of the decor. The water bottles they give you are scratched and crumbled like they’ve been fished out of a trash can. The plates? Filthy. They “attempt” to class it up by putting a leaf on the plate, but even that is disgusting—soaked in water that looks like it came straight from a sewer. It’s revolting.

I've been coming here for five years, and it’s been on a steady downhill spiral. This place has become an absolute joke. The managers are just as uninterested and inept as their staff, doing nothing to improve the experience. It’s beyond disappointing—it's downright infuriating. This place has gone from a solid choice to a MASSIVE NO in every...

Sambal is a one of a kind of restaurant which serves authentic indonesian cuisine, located at a very popular locality of madhapur and exactly adjacent to the very popular durgam chervu. The restaurant is a multileveled place with a varied sections of seating , the ambience is simple yet comforting . On my visit , we were served Es Kelapa muda which is an indonesian welcome drink in which tendercoconut is fused with Jaggery and lemon . Then comes the food , i have been very inquisitive about the indonesian cuisine , but this place has come up on my expectations , the food at this place is delicious ,every dish which was served was unique in its own . never tasted such dishes in hyderabad , they also serve some.of the most iconic dishes here that no one serves , one of them is a Nila Goreng .according to me.the place has a promising if they continue the same.kind of consistency and quality . The service was decent and the staff was humble and took utmost care of our needs . I surely suggest you guys to visit this place and you wont be disappointed . will surely be coming to this place to try out their more dishes soon. the place has to work on their indonesian desserts .

On our visit we had a various variety of items the list is as follows • Es Kelapa Muda • Virgin Mojito • MMM • Soto Banjar • Sup Kambing • Sup Jamur • Laksa Sayuran • Bakwan Goreng Bala • Tumis Bak Choi Tahu • Ghee CB Roast Prawns • Kulit Lumpia Goreng Sayuran • Pachimirapa Paneer Vepadu • Satay Ayam Saus Kacang • Terong Goreng • Potongan kambing saus rica rica • Nila Goreng • Live Natukodi Pulusu • Kakap Bakar Saus Dabu Dabu • Mie Goreng Sayuran • Nasi Goreng Kuning • Terong Balado • Claypot Gongura Pulao • Brownie Sundae • Pisang Goreng Ketan Hitam • Choco Lava

Food-4/5 Service-5/5 Ambience-5/5 Value...