Chaya Kada Restaurant Muntazah — Restaurant in Doha

Chaya kada its a well known restaurant for their taste but Terrible service the staff was rude and inattentive. We had to wait for ages to take even our order , even after we have been wait for long enough and they informed us the order is not available, the staff they don’t even know whats their menu and what is available or not like an irresponsible management. for us this is not the first time we face such an issue in the same restaurant , first time we haven’t say anything , And they are trying to upsale that something that we don’t really needed . After their dramatic 45 mnts discussion with kitchen they are finally ready to tell us its not available . Appreciated . They are just cancelling our order by themselves and forcing us to get something else that they got remaining .They don’t even have a guilt even we infromed to the supevisor i guess that moments they said wait they can prepare it for us . Howz that even possible the one item thst we ordered just a moment ago they says its not available and in few sec they can prepares that after they got the complaint. Its not happening for the first time for us. Nothing has less credibility than sitring over anplace like this even though we have a choice to eat something else or somewhere else , We are soo upset and just walk away from there. That was the worst experience ever that i had in our entire life never recommended this...

Staying true to its name, Chaya Kada is your Keraleean inspired restaurant vibing with posters, artwork, memorabilia from South Indian 80s and 90s filmography. Cozy interiors and typical Keraleean tea shop seating of table and benches that are named after the many districts of Kerala. Menu has your typical appam, porotta, iddiyappam and ghee rice with spicy chicken, beef and seafood curries. The other special items I would recommend are their Beef or chicken pothi, their version of Pothi chorru (takeaway meals, typically boiled red rice) and Chattin chorru (meals in a clay pot, red rice, assorted thoran, sambals, curries and a papad).

I still order their takeaway Samovar chai by litre and occasionally enjoy their small 2 rial sip cups in the evenings. A call ahead to their landline will help you pre-order their delicious evening snacks that vary each day in a week. Both savoury and sweet snacks are available at nominal pricing.

For all your deep diving into nostalgia from Kerala, order the afore mentioned dishes. Generally all their curries would be labeled as spicy. But then again, it's sometimes good to live a little. Is it one of the best? No, but they do a good job of dishing out consistently good tasting plates of their carefully curated short menu.

Great services whenever we dined in. Takeouts were always placed by order-thru-telephone and picked...

This was my first dine-in visit to this place. My this review is only going to be on the ambience and not the food.

I have to say I love the interior of this place. I’m not a Malayali, but this place does give you an insight of Kerala in a good way. Which is why a place like this should also take care of the background music if at all they are going to play it. Music has a huge impact on a person’s mood. Either play good music that creates a good vibe or don’t play anything at all that kills the vibe and expectations that the place sets. For me I wouldn’t call this place a regular restaurant when they have some valuable things on display like the old Indian currencies and postals and etc. So you see, when you’re looking around in awe, and then some sad Hindi songs from the 90s make you feel depressed, you don’t really want to enjoy the surrounding anymore. However, when addressed this to the staff, he did change it but while billing it was back to the similar old tracks 🥴

I cannot really write a review at this point about the food because when we went there, only chicken curry, paratha & dosas were available. Staffs were very courteous and...