Calfrost Sj'S Indian Kitchen

This kitchen is located in S.I.G Nagar, which is part of the Old Dairy Farm area in Visakhapatnam. The full address is Door-No: 5-536, and the business has been tied to the family for a long time, specifically under the name of late Y Rayappa’s son. It’s a local kitchen where the focus is just on the food we prepare every day. We start very early in the morning when the air is still a bit cool. There is a lot of chopping and grinding that goes on before the first orders even come in. The building is a simple one, nothing flashy or modern about it. It’s nestled in a neighborhood where everyone knows each other by name. You can hear the sounds of the neighborhood, like children playing or people talking in the lane, while we work in the back. The heat from the stoves is pretty constant, so we keep the windows open to catch any breeze we can from the coast. We handle everything ourselves, from buying the vegetables at the market to cleaning up the floors at the end of the shift. It’s hard work and our hands are usually busy with something. The Old Dairy Farm area has changed over the years with more houses coming up, but our spot remains pretty much the same. We don’t have a big team, just a few people who know how to run a kitchen properly. It’s an honest way to make a living, and we just keep at it day after day without much fuss.