Baithak Saoji Restaurant

Baithak Saoji Restaurant is in the Mahal area of Nagpur, specifically in the Manish Kritika Apartment. If you know the Jhenda Chowk or the Natraj Theatre, then you know exactly where we are. Nagpur is famous for Saoji food, which is really spicy, and that is what we do here every day. The restaurant is not very large, but we have enough space for people to sit down and eat. It gets very busy in the evenings, especially when a movie finishes at Natraj Theatre and people come over looking for a heavy meal. The kitchen is always a bit chaotic with the spices and the heat. I am usually at the front or helping out with the orders. It’s a lot of manual work, like chopping onions and cleaning the floors after the lunch crowd leaves. Mahal is an old part of the city, so the streets are narrow and it’s always crowded with shoppers and rickshaws. We have lived around here for a long time, so we know most of the people who come in. The apartment building itself is quite easy to spot once you get to Jhenda Chowk. We don’t have a website or anything like that, we just rely on people walking in from the street. Sometimes we run out of the main dishes by late night because the demand is high. It’s just a normal restaurant trying to serve the local taste of Nagpur without any fancy fuss.