Reviews and Guides on Restaurants, Vizag

Dusk can easily be mistaken for a contemporary meditation center at Beach Road in Vizag. We see a huge symbolic golden bronze logo of hands outstretched in repose over a circle, a cove kind of foyer that opens into artifacts, terracotta, potted palms and burnished wood; and an orange glow that seeps into almost everything...

As the curtain draws to a close on a turbulent, eventful, sometimes sad, sometimes jubilant and somewhat happening year 2008, MetroMela whizzes past all that was and all that could be as the last few pages of 2008 turn over and move into the New Year 2009...

The logo of Café Coffee Day is hard to miss, as we walk past the café at Waltair Uplands in Vizag. The attractive white-letter signage against the red backdrop, with a hint of green, says it all, as the café brings with it a relaxed ambience of chats over fabulous cups of exotic coffee...

As dusk creeps in with its misty blanket, Vizag goes aglitter with star lanterns and twinkling lights that glow from all corners of the city. The colors green and red seem to pop up almost everywhere - at shops, at bazaars, at hotels and at homes. Need we say more? Well, it’s time to pull out those weather-worn stockings; time to powder off the dust from the old fir tree; time to go shopping and time to either bake or buy the most wonderful cakes and desserts. It’s Christmas...

On the face of it, Southern Spice at the Green Park Hotel in Vizag appears to be the same as before. We see the brass urli at the foyer, a simplistic blue-white chaired décor and a buffet spread. But when we step in and place our order, we notice a change...

We take a turn at the left after the Asilmetta junction, just before Gothisons, and walk towards the attractive deli-style, new fast-food family restaurant Marrybrown in Vizag. The first-floor restaurant opens to the road and is designed in a stylish curvature, with Marrybrown’s trademark red and white signage...

Vizag, home to a unique cosmopolitan culture, celebrates almost every other festival that India celebrates all through the year. As the city prepares to rejoice in the Bakri-Id festival, MetroMela speaks with Shaheda Mehdi, a renowned aerobics instructor, to find out how she celebrates Bakri-Id (or Eid-ul-Zoha as it is also known) with her family in Vizag...

‘Winter foods are meant to generate heat in the body’. That’s what Executive Chef Sudhir Soloman of Palm Beach Hotel in Vizag professes. To go with his food philosophy, MetroMela gives you two of Soloman’s exclusive and favorite non-veg recipes – a chicken soup and a crab delicacy...

Sharing shop space with Marrybrown, Chokolade at Asilmetta is Vizag’s answer to a chocolate heaven! We see a delightful little chocolate store, wherein the L-counter's front walls carry cut out designs of ice cream toppings at the bottom and the backdrop...

The distant burst of firecrackers, which we associate with our most favorite festival Diwali, can be heard once again from the various corners of the city, as Vizag’s cosmopolitan crowd gears up to enjoy the most delightful, colorful, bright and noisy festival of lights. Spread over four days of gaiety...

No two biryanis ever taste the same and that’s because the art of making a robust biryani is a well-guarded secret. But no one’s complaining – so long as we get to eat that extra spicy and deliciously flavored biryani. So which one would you like to savor? Vizag, now a confluence of cultures, offers a melting pot of mixed biryanis...

MetroMela is taken in with the new-look simplistic and minimal decor of the foyer of the three-star Hotel Green Park, at the Waltair Main Road, in Vizag, and this look flows into its lobby-level, multi-cuisine restaurant Tulips. At a glance, this newly named restaurant shows a...

From the Old Norse word kaka came cake, a cooked and porous confection of flour, sugar, honey and eggs. Modern methods of baking converted this humble offering (often confused with bread earlier) into a divine delicacy called the cake, and its smaller cousin, the pastry! While chocolate ruled...

The most beautiful phase in India’s calendar life begins - the onset of the festive season. In Vizag, pandals are being raised, lights are being set up and preparations are on to receive the much-revered Lord Ganesha (and also, later in the week, to celebrate Onam the harvest festival of Kerela)...

The delightful aroma of freshly-baked breads and cakes assails our senses as we step into this small bakery, Tisona’s Cake House, at Dwarakanagar. With its floored teak wooden-casing shelves filled with puffs and cookies and glass counter-tops stacked with cakes...