Hotel Desi Aahar

You can find us at Plot No 4711 in Laxmi Vihar, right near the Sainik School here in Bhubaneshwar. It’s a pretty quiet area compared to the main city center. We started this place because we wanted to serve simple food and have a few rooms for people visiting the school or the neighborhood. It’s not a big corporate hotel. It’s more like a family-run spot where we do a bit of everything ourselves. I usually handle the cooking in the morning while my nephew looks after the desk. We get a lot of parents coming to see their kids at the school. The building is just a normal plot, and we try to keep the garden out front looking okay, though the heat makes it tough sometimes. We don’t have a big menu or anything, just what we know how to cook well. It’s honest work. Most of our furniture is stuff we’ve had for a long time. We aren’t trying to be the most modern place in town. We just want to make sure people are fed and have a decent place to sit. It gets a bit busy around lunch, then quiets down in the afternoon. We don’t use any marketing agencies. If people like the food, they tell their friends, and that’s how we get by. It’s a simple life out here in Laxmi Vihar. We just take it one day at a time.