
Which is the very best metropolis for meals in Tamil Nadu? This query will probably spark fierce debates and produce regional and city-based loyalties to the fore. Coimbatore is excessive up on the record. Throughout a latest go to to the town’s latest luxurious resort – O by Tamara, I checked out among the area’s well-known culinary specialities. Coimbatore is within the coronary heart of the erstwhile Kongunad area in Tamil Nadu’s south-western belt (that features areas like Coimbatore, Salem and Erode). O Cafe, the resort’s all-day diner affords an genuine Kongunad.
There’s extra to Coimbatore’s delicacies than simply Kongunad delicacies. Virtually each time I am within the metropolis, I make a cease at Annapoorna for his or her legendary ghee roast dosa and invigorating filter espresso. Town’s road meals and high-quality eating scene have additionally developed over the previous decade. From the town’s spin on mushroom to a novel crispy butter appam to a melt-in-your-mouth Mysore pak and a flavourful biryani crafted with small grain rice, we take you thru the town’s most buzzed culinary hotspots.
Regional specialities at O Cafe at O by Tamara:
The all-day diner at O by Tamara affords a wide selection of culinary choices. The restaurant additionally pays tribute to the Kongunad area and affords genuine variations of a rooster sukka and luxury meals choices just like the arisi paruppu sadham. Wrap up your meal with their widespread dessert – the kavunni arisi halwa, that’s crafted with black rice.
O by Tamara, Sakkarai Chettiyar Colony, Uppilipalayam
Dosa and filter espresso at Annapoorna:
This is likely one of the metropolis’s best-known homegrown restaurant manufacturers that has been round because the Sixties. Their ghee roast served with their trademark sambar is an area legend. It is one among their hottest dishes except for their Pongal vada and invigorating filter espresso.

Peelamedu-Padur Street (reverse KMCH Hospital)
Positioned on the town’s busy Avinashi Street, Covai Anganan has been round since 1926 and serves a scrumptious biryani crafted with small-grain rice. Additionally attempt their widespread signature dishes just like the Kongunad-style pichu potta kozhi varuval, their scrumptious spin on shredded rooster.

Avinashi Street
You are unlikely to search out Coimbatore’s distinctive model of the appam in another metropolis in Tamil Nadu. It is an appam after which it is not. It is a crusty, virtually crispy model of the traditional appam. Crispy on the skin, comfortable on the within and loaded with butter. Go away these calorie counters at house and dig in.

Sambandan Street E, RS Puram
Mushrooms (kaalan in Tamil) are an integral a part of Kongunad delicacies. It has sparked one of many metropolis’s hottest road meals developments and one that the majority Coimbatoreans are nostalgic about. Beautiful Mushroom stall is likely one of the many spots the place you’ll be able to attempt the town’s model of kaalan or mushroom. Batter fried mushroom tossed in a secret masala and likewise served with different accompaniments.

Raja Annamalai Street, Saibaba colony
Karandi is the Tamil phrase for ladle. That is an omelette that may be shortly put collectively in a big ladle (Thalippu Karandi in Tamil) that you simply sometimes use for tempering or ‘tadka’ and lends the karandi omelette its fluffy textures and layers. Haribhavanam is a well-liked chain that leans in direction of Tamil Nadu delicacies; you’ll be able to attempt their karandi omelette and native Kongunad specialities.
Goldwins, Avinashi Street.
Malli Pongal at Shree Anandhaas:
That is one among Coimbatore’s hottest vegetarian chain eating places. Search for the every day specials just like the Malli (Coriander) Pongal and several types of rava kesari (sheera) which are accessible on choose days of the week; the chikoo kesari is our favorite. The candy store affords a large alternative of sweets together with a scrumptious karupatti Mysore pak that is made with palm jaggery.
Lakshmi Mills Junction, Puliakulam Street.
This family-run restaurant is a well-liked native establishment and serves one of the crucial widespread dishes from Kongunad. Pallipalayam rooster are pan-fried nuggets of rooster flavoured with a zesty masala and completed with coconut slivers. The dish will get its distinctive flavours from a novel spice combine – the Pallipalayam rooster powder.
CSI Compound. Race Course
This native candy retailer chain sells millet-based snacks and sweets made with karupatti (palm jaggery). The elaneer halwa made with tender coconut water is one among their bestsellers.

Saibaba Colony
An amalgam of Kovai (or Coimbatore) and Love, KOVE is likely one of the metropolis’s latest fine-dining eating places with an accent on progressive delicacies. There is a personal eating room for unique Chef’s desk menus – a primary within the metropolis. The menu is a mixture of progressive signatures just like the curd rice arancini balls and luxury meals just like the yam galouti or baked brie.
E Arokiasamy Street, RS Puram
Most travellers to Chennai journey again house with a field of the melt-in-your-mouth mysurpa (the Krishna Sweets of ghee mysore pak). The mysurpa’s origin story started in Coimbatore and this candy store is a well-liked cease for locals and guests alike.
Cross Lower Street.
This elegant restaurant positioned in one of many metropolis’s trendiest retail and eating locations – the Lakshmi Mills compound, pays tribute to road meals from throughout South India. The menu has been put collectively after in depth travels throughout South India and the Rameshwaram-style potlam saadam, a one-pot meal wrapped in a banana leaf that mixes rice and meat is one among their signature dishes.
Lakshmi Mills Compound, Avinashi Street