Friday, August 8, 2008

Food for Hyderabad's nocturnal

An exclusive edition for all those midnight vampires prowling in the city searching for food at midnights. There are quite a few restaurants offering midnight biryani and other eclectic varieties. Here is the list of a few that I know of.

Ameerpet - Begumpet - Panjagutta
  • ITC Kakatiya's Deccan Pavilion, Begumpet - It is actually a Coffee shop, A coffee shop with a difference serving "mood cuisine" for your every mood. However it has the best midnight buffet in town. Costs about 600Rs. Begins at around 12 midnight. Deccan Pavilion's midnight biryani, and their grand buffet with Indian, Oriental, Italian, Central European and American dishes make for unforgettable odd-hour delicacies.
  • Promenade, Aditya Park Inn, Ameerpet - Their midnight biryani is called Midnight Masala and hosts a wide variety of dishes on the menu. The buffet here should be costing around 500Rs though I am not very sure. This hotel is located on the road opposite Satyam theatre.
  • Tulips, Green Park, Begumpet - A relatively smaller and a cheaper version of the buffet mentioned prior to this. They have about 7-8 items with their main focus on Hyderabadi biryani. This would not hurt your pockets too much and costs about 225Rs. It is open till 3 in the night.

Banjara Hills - Jubilee Hills - Madhapur

  • Ohri's Banjara, Banjara hills Rd no 12 - This is the place I eat out midnights most frequently. The reason this place is so good is not just the food factor but the havmor ice cream parlor open till 3 PM. They have the best ice creams to choose from like Awful Awful, Bulls Eye muffin.. Oh and by the way, the buffet is decent (Read as nothing too great) and costs you about 250Rs.
  • Windows of the World, Hi-Tech city, Madhapur - Right in the heart of the Geek Kingdom, WoW serves good(read better than decent) midnight buffet. This should not cost you more than 250Rs. They also have an alacarte which is worth a visit.
  • The Square, Novotel, Madhapur - Another coffee shop turned midnight food spot. I am sure I need not talk about the pricing aspect. But that aside, the food is supposedly good (never tried) and is famous for its desserts and seafood.

Secunderabad - Tankbund
- Lakdikapul
  • The Pickels, Basera, Near clock tower - They have a good variety of fish and meat starters. The food tastes great and isnt too much on the expensive side. True value for money. Both the buffet and a-la-carte menu are worth giving a try.
  • Anmol International, Tankbund road - with an insipid menu this is one of the lesser known spots for midnight biryani. The food is bad and so is the variety. Costs about 200 bucks and is a strict No - No!
  • Salt and Pepper, The central court, Lakdikapul - This is a 24 hrs. cafe with midnight dinner. They have a unique round the clock alacarte snacks menu running. The midnight buffet comes at a price of 150Rs but is surprisingly good. Do try the snacks though!

There are certain other options available such as
  • The bread omlette guy near Himalaya book store, Nagarjuna Circle
  • The omni-present Kwality walls icecream guys
  • Hotel Mariotts midnight buffet (need to explore)
  • Taste of Hyderabad - Midnight biryani takeaway in Ameerpet
  • Midnight - Dial-A-Meal, Waiter on Wheels, offers home delivery at 66667788
If anyone knows of any other places, do leave a comment so that it can be added...

18 comments:

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Thanks man.. College habits haven't deserted me yet :)

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Anonymous said...

manam peddaga tirigindi ledu kani .. Ohrij Banjara I found good because of the same reason .. awful awful tasty .. ;) ..

and novatel is not that costly .. It was around 470 .. and food was not great .. yeah keema paratha was good there .. ;) ..
donno about rest ..

btw .. mee blog lo chala INFORMATION undi saar .. NNN style ..

--vinay

Swetha said...

hi sreeram,
ur blog is very informative...by d way u missed another interesting place i.e "Our place" & another one is "humpi".

Arvind said...

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Anonymous said...

thank you... I was searching for good places to surprise my husband with night out on his bday.. I found it thru your blog....

workhard said...

A must try at Havmor, Ohris is the Titanic ice cream.. its a slab of 7 different flavors and costs just 300/.... four of us could not finish it...

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sherry reddy said...

hey guys, Does westin have a midnight buffet??

Anonymous said...

Remove Waiter on Wheels from your list people. A displaced sounding response, 'Service nahiin hai...' met my hunger when I called them at 0128 in the night after reading your blog.

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Bharadhwaj said...

Thanks for the info... atleast this should keep the night time hunger pangs in check. The cafe behind Abids GPO also serves biryani till 3am.

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