Gopi Dining Hall

Gopi Dining Hall is right across from Town Hall in Ellisbridge. It’s been at this spot for quite some time now. You can hear the traffic from the main road all day long. It's an old building, and you can tell by the way the doors creak sometimes. Inside, the air is thick with the smell of whatever is cooking in the big pots. We don't use fancy tablecloths or anything like that. The stainless steel tables are easier to wipe down when the lunch crowd leaves. During the peak hours, it gets very loud with people talking and the staff calling out orders to the kitchen. Sometimes the fans don't quite cut through the heat, but nobody seems to mind much. We just focus on getting the food out on the plates. Most of our regulars are people who work in the nearby offices or students who need a meal that doesn't cost too much. We don't have a lot of space, so you might end up sitting next to someone you don't know at the long tables. It's just how things work here in 380006. The floor gets a bit slippery if it rains outside, so we have to be careful with the mops. By three in the afternoon, things finally slow down and we get a chance to sit for a minute before the evening starts up. The sun hits the front window in a way that makes the room very bright.