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Restaurant Name: Dakshin – ITC Windsor
Phone: +918061401223
Address: ITC Windsor, 25, Windsor Square, Golf Course Road, Abshot Layout, Vasanth Nagar, Bangalore, Karnataka 560052 India
Time: 12:30 pm – 2:45 pm, 7:00 pm – 11:30 pm
Meals for two: Rs. 6,000
Cuisines: South Indian
Facilities: Home Delivery, Wheelchair Accessible, Full Bar Available, Table reservation required, Indoor Seating, Family Friendly, Romantic Dining, Wifi, 4/5 Star, Luxury Dining
Dakshin – ITC Windsor, Bangalore: About
To return to Dakshin – ITC Windsor after a long spell is to be reassured that some things do not change. You are greeted with a strand of jasmines and given a hairpin if you want to wear it in your hair. It’s a quiet, staid restaurant with Carnatic instrumental music playing in the background.
The meal begins with an array of chutneys placed on your plate, like little blobs of paint on a white palette. The dosa trolley has been a Dakshin fixture for many years now. The small sweet banana dosa arrived, followed by a mixed dal adai with raw mango in it. Then, masal vadai and vazhaikai shunti, a raw banana kofta.
I had the non-vegetarian thali, curated by the chefs. It has small, silver katoris of many dishes. The vegetarian items included a lovely, light keerai masiyal, a mash of greens and dal with the distinct aroma of fresh dill. There was a raw banana stir fry, simple and light, and gutti vankaya koora, the brinjal dish from Andhra.
The Karur mutton curry captured the flavours of the deep south of Tamil Nadu. The kozhi varutharacha curry was similarly flavourful. The prawn in the royal avepudu was a bit overdone for my taste. I ate the mutton and chicken curries with a parotta and an appam. The thali also comes with a kodi pulao, a mildly flavoured chicken pulao and raita. I wrapped up my meal with some steaming hot rice, small grain and perfectly cooked, with drumstick and shallot sambar and, later, a perfectly made rasam, and some papads from the complimentary basket. The elaneer payasam is a signature sweet here and lovely and cooling after the spice-rich meal. You can also have frothy filter coffee served in a dabara tumbler set.
The ITC hotels are committed to keeping Indian traditions alive and Dakshin is a shining example of that
