Lakshminarayanan Catering Service

Operating out of 120 Kovalam Road in Kittu Nagar is always an adventure. Kelambakkam is a busy area, and there is always someone needing food for a party or a small gathering at home. We spend a lot of our time over big pots of rice and sambar. It gets very hot in the kitchen, especially in the middle of the day. You can always hear the clatter of metal spoons against the big vats. We don't really have a fancy office. Most of the business happens right there among the vegetable crates and the smell of spices. Sometimes the delivery van gets stuck in traffic on the way to a function, and we all get a bit stressed out, but we always manage to get the food there. My cousins and a few local guys help me with the chopping and the cleaning. It is a lot of scrubbing pots late at night after everyone else has gone to sleep. We don't use any of those big words to describe what we do. We just cook food that tastes like what you'd get at home, hopefully. People in Kittu Nagar know where to find us if they have a wedding coming up. We write everything down in a big ledger book that is starting to fall apart at the edges. It’s hard work, standing on your feet all day, but it’s what keeps the lights on and the family fed.