More franchises coming to Odisha; Dalma from Odisha spreads its wing
Cuttack, Food joints, Khordha, Odia/Odisha cuisine, Puri September 17th. 2010, 9:12amVithal Kamats has opened three restaurants in Odisha in Puri, Cuttack and Dhauli (outskirts of Bhubaneswar). Several others are in the pipeline.
The one in Dhauli has the following whereabouts:
Location Address : Dhauli , Near Uttra Chowk Contact No./Email Id : 0909009351 / dhauli@vithalkamats.com Unit Manager Name : Mr. Srinivas Dalai Seating capacity : Non Ac-60 Meal Price : 160 INR for 02 persons Cuisine Served : North Indian, South Indian & snacks Other Facility offered : Huge parking, clean toilets for ladies & gents, Open from 7:00 AM to 11:00 PM
The one in Cuttack has the following details:
The 1,000 sq.ft restaurant at Buxi Bazar can seat 50-60 people and offers dosas, idlis, dahi vada, vada pav and the usual South and North Indian delicacies.
The one in Puri is at Mahodadhi.
Besides these new ones are scheduled to come up in Konark, Bhubaneswar and Satpada (Chilika).
Hyderabad House has outlets in XIMB sqaure and Surya Nagar Bhubaneswar. New ones are coming up in Cuttack and Bapjui Nagar, Bhubaneswar.
Dalma, restaurant with Odia cuisine started from Bhubaneswar. It now has spread its wings to Bangalore and this month it is supposed to open a branch in Rourkela. The address of its locations are:
DALMA – Bhubaneswar
157, Madhusudan Nagar
Sachivalaya marg
Unit-IV
Bhubaneswar-751001
DALMA – Bhubaneswar
Maruti Mall
KIIT Square
Chandrasekharpur
Bhubaneswar-751016
DALMA – Bangalore
37, 6th Block,
100ft Road, Kormangala,
Bengaluru.
Phone- 080-41660921.
DALMA – Rourkela
Shivani Complex
Panposh Main Road
Near Mayfair Hotel
Rourkela (To open in September 2010)
Its Bangalore location is getting rave reviews from Bangaloreans. See the reviews at http://food.sify.com/articles/Dalma-235061 and http://www.bangaloresrestaurants.com/2010/07/weekend-raid-4-dalma.html. Following is an excerpt from the later:
Dalma is an Odissa cuisine restaurant and part of a chain that is quite famous in Bhuvaneshwar. Its been open a relatively short time but has become a phenomenon of sorts. Come a little after 12.45 pm and you will end up waiting for place. The food is homely.
… The meal was brilliant …
Hope Dalma succeeds further and has locations all over India. Also, hope other Odia entrepreneurs come up with other concepts and spread it across India. Any thoughts on what those concepts could be?
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September 17th, 2010 at 2:31 pm
I would really like to see many more versions of Dalma coming up in the near future in cities across India (think of a restaurant that serves food that is close to prasad served in temples, think of a sweet shop that sells pithas which are not so sugary – have coconut filings to entice the south indian crowd, think of a specialty fish restaurant etc.). It’s time more people came to know about Oriya food in all its version whether vegetarian or non-vegetarian. The concepts will flow only when as a people we begin to respect entrepreneurs in our midst. This means talking about them proudly, encouraging risk taking from an early age, supporting personal initiative (lemonade at $1 anyone) and looking at failure as another milestone towards progress. Unfortunately as a society in Orissa we have failed big time on all these counts. We are taught the value of education which is very important, but at the same time there is a certain disdain on the part of the larger community towards any entrepreneurial venture.
We must learn from the Gujaratis and the Punjabis on how to respect personal initiative and the can do spirit. People are not born with an entrepreneur gene. At least it has not yet been discovered! It’s the society and the milieu that creates entrepreneurs and that’s what is so lacking amongst Oriyas. Personally I go out of my way every time I meet an Oriya entrepreneur. I would wish fellow Oriyas do the same abroad and in India.