Santosh Cooking & Catering

If you’ve spent any time around Birsa Chowk, you’ve probably seen us moving equipment around. Santosh Cooking & Catering is based right here, and it’s a busy spot to be in. We spend a lot of our mornings checking the vegetable markets nearby to see what's fresh for the day's orders. Our team is basically just local people who know how to cook for large crowds without making a fuss about it. We don't use those pre-made packets much; we prefer grinding our own masalas because that's how we were taught to do it. The kitchen is always noisy with the sound of knives on boards and the big burners going. Sometimes the traffic at Birsa Chowk makes it tricky to get our delivery vans out on time, so we’ve learned to start our prep work extra early. We handle everything from small birthday snacks to those huge wedding buffets where the line never seems to end. It’s a lot of lifting heavy containers and making sure the rice doesn’t get soggy in the steam. We don’t have a flashy website or a sales team. Usually, someone just calls us because they ate our food at a cousin’s place and liked the taste of the dal. We keep our notes in a stained diary and try to remember everyone's preferences from the last time they hired us. It’s just a normal business trying to do things right.