Shiv Shankar Hindu Hotel

Shiv Shankar Hindu Hotel is situated over at Fatepura, right on the 7th Main Cross. It’s a very traditional kind of place. We don’t have any fancy menus or waiter uniforms. Most of our customers are workers from the area or people living in the nearby houses. The seating is just simple benches and long tables where everyone sits together. We serve the kind of food that you would eat at home. It’s all vegetarian and we make it fresh every day in the back kitchen. You can hear the clinking of plates and the sound of the pressure cooker throughout the afternoon. The building itself is quite old and has high ceilings which helps keep it a bit cooler. We have a small sink in the corner for washing up. It’s not the quietest place because the 7th Main Cross is always busy with scooters and carts passing by. We don’t use much for decorations, maybe just a calendar on the wall and a small shelf for the bills. I took over from my father, and not much has changed since his time. We focus on getting the food on the plate and making sure nobody leaves hungry. It’s a plain, honest business. We open early to get the rice started and we stay until the pots are empty. Most days we finish up by late afternoon and head home ourselves to rest before doing it all again tomorrow.