Swadesi-Dal Bati — Restaurant in Maharashtra

We visited this place today and trust me I have a lot to say about this place, the food, service and ambience and price. To begin with: Place: This place is quite decent with amazing ambience. The seating arrangments are eye catchy as it makes you feel at home experience while enjoying your food.

Food: They knock it out of the park when it comes to food, specially and specifically daal baati. The taste is definitely in comparison to the ones who are pros in serving daal baati in Pune from past many years (Sahare dining hall, Baba Ramdev's, Mayur dining hall, Paramhans, etc). Very authentic food and presentation is on the top note. Daal baati is a must eat.

Service: The owner herself is the one managing the entire show at the food joint. Very humble and on the tip of the toe service. They are very well aware of the business ethics and customer service norms, even being just a startup and new bees in the town.

Ambience: Very very comfortable and at home experience. Peaceful and quiet as it should be for a family and group of people. Just so you can focus on enjoying the food and not on wasteful talks of people around you, as generally you experience it at other food joints.

Price: Well, here is the important aspect of any business and any foodie. Pricing is economical coz if you desire good and authentic food with quality then you have to shellout from your pocket a bit extra. Sufficient for 2 people around 500 if ordering maharaja thali which does include daal baati as well. You can order daal baati separately as well. The thali is quite filling and sufficient for one person. So, price will never be a concern if you believe in quality, quantity and genuine food.

Thank you for serving us one of the best memories through food and we will always keep coming back to you people for the same food, service and customer service. We wish you all the best and pray that you grow slowly and steadily to become one of the biggest and best daal baati food joint in Pune. Thank you so much. My family and I really enjoyed our time, food and your company. God bless you all always.

Ajaz Shaikh and...

CHEAP MARATHI VERSION OF DAL BATI: Today I had THE WORST experience of dal bati in my whole life. Dal was 99% water and 1% spices and I was still searching for the dal in it. Dal resembles to the one prepared for the prisoners in a jail, even the jail would would've prepared much better than this. Now coming to BATI, the restaurant should change it's name to "mini bati" because its actual size is more than 50% less than the actual rajasthani bati. Therfore, this restaurant is demeaning the taste of actual Rajathani Dal Bati. I don't know why so many reviewers writing good about this dish. I am 200% sure they have never been to Rajasthan and just happy with cheap marathi version of dal bati.

CHEAP MARATHI VERSION OF GATTE KI SABJI: I have never seen such gatte ki sabji. When I saw this, I was laughing like hell because it was nowhere close to the actual Rajasthani gatte ki sabji (see the image with comarison). It seems they have taken normal panner's gravy and placed some GATTE in it. WOW!.. This is how they again ruined it.

Why I am still giving them the TWO stars, because: Litti chokha was good. Bharta was good.

Therefore, if you've been to rajasthan and love rajasthani food, then never go...

This place is very congested to seat.

The service is poor to taking to much time to get the ordered food on the table.

If you saw the menu on Zomato, the Soya chaap and Tandoori menu was not available here. They stopped serveing that.

Only limited menu is available.

We tried Simple Dal bati and Litti Chokha. The food was decent and you can try it. I never tried previously so can't say more.

Side chutney was very good There were 2 chutnies - Red and Green Red was garlic one little spicy and green was coriander and mint not spicy.

You might get the litti undercooked sometime.

The Chokha was made with mustard oil and you will get the taste of it, I loved it. But there were more potatoes in it.

Kadhi was good and you can get it separately if you want to try in the dal bati thali.

Overall my this was my first time ever litti chokha experience and you can try but not sure this was authentic taste.

If you are good with congested place then good for you. Otherwise get the order from Zomato.

This place doesn't accept NFC and card payment.

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