Hotel Chaitanya, Malvan - Sindhudurg

Malvan food diaries - Hotel Chaitanya

Gastronomic funda:  A tiny restaurant serving authentic Malwani food and Maharashtrian non-vegetarian dishes.

Address & other details: Hotel Chaitanya  Malvan (Click for Google map Coordinates)

Cuisine: Non-Vegetarian & Vegetarian

Meal For two: 500

Gastronomers: Irish Pereira, Bhaskar & Bhageshree Sawant, Pradip Patil, Pranali & Shriansh Tamhanekar

Damages: Rs. 1943 (Including 5% GST)

Ambience: 3 out of 5

Food: 4 out of 5

Service: 4 out of 5

Hotel Chaitanya is one of the popular sea food destination in Malvan, Sindhudurg. Located in heart of Malvan town, this place provides food enthusiast's with most authentic Malvani food.

Prologue:

We had a chance to visit Malvan for our office trip and wherein Chaitanya was one of the hotels recommended by our tour operator for Lunch. It is just at a walking distance from Malvan jetty wherein to board the ferry for Sindhudurg fort. 

Our Team

After reaching there, the Hotel’s ambience was also good to begin with. We were 6 of us seated on table and we decided to taste most pf the menus and preferred to order for 4 different seafood menus. There was no regular menu card available and one has to refer menu board fixed on the wall for placing an order. Please refer there menu board below.

Menu Board

Some of their daily special dishes are listed below:

The food offerings are as per platewise. We had ordered in all 5 different menus namely. Surmai thali, Paplet thali, Khekda thali (crab), Bombil thali, and Chicken saguti.

All menus were awesome and catch were fresh. One can easily make out whether the fish used in the dish is fresh or not.

Surmai Thali

To begin with, i would like to start with Surmai thali. This thali comes with generous oversized Surmai piece with bowl of curry, sol kadhi, rasam, slice of onions coupled with Wheat chapatti. One can also go for rice bhakri instead of Chapatti. Surmai was fried with typical rava or semolina coating. The crust was very crispy outside and juicy and textured inside. The fish curry of small mackerel was tangy made out of kokam and coconut milk.

Pomfret Thali

Secondly coming to Pomfret (Paplet as it is locally known) we were somewhat disappointed seeing the pomfret serving size as compared to Surmai. On the lighter note the owners of hotel were perhaps injudiciously biased in favour of Surmai. It was again shallow fried in semolina and served on banana leaf. The taste however made up for its small size. The spicy and juicy textured crust had retained its flavours.

Khekda (Crab) Thali

Thirdly the crab dish was again made up with coconut milk and kokam gravy, but was tangy taste as compared regular mackerel curry which we had with other fish dishes. It was mid-sized crab drenched in the curry. One has to be careful with clothes when handling such shell fishes and crabs. The crab thali was just OK types as compared to fishes. 

Bombil Thali

Fourthly Bombil thali was ordered for our younger fellow who preferred bombil fry over other prized siblings. Again with same standard curry, rasam set up included shallow fried bombil. The semolina coated bombil were crispy and juicy.

Chicken Saguti with Vade

Lastly leaving fish section and coming to chicken was Chicken Saguti dish which was also really well made. Chicken saguti with vade happens to be one of the famous speciality of Malvan. There were two different chicken preparations in the dish; one was Saguti which was more spicy than the other. With judiciously used coconut based masala which was hot, spicy and with crispy vadas, it was one of dish to reckon at in Chaitanya.

After food we washed down our food pipes with Solkadi (drink made from kokum and coconut milk) which was complimentarily served again and again. Solkadi was kind of sour than regular one we have in Mumbai.

In all above dishes, we had ordered for wheat chapatti. However fish and rice bhakri make for an awesome combination. The chapatti was followed by regular rice which we had as per own appetite.

Epilogue : To sum up there are various choices for food enthusiasts in Malvan to drop by, but Hotel Chaitanya is the place a true sea food lover will not want to miss especially for those Maharashtrian sea food and non-vegetarian dishes which are quite affordable too.

Disclaimer: The above restaurant in review was personally visited by Irish Pereira wherein he has paid for the full bill & does not believe in featured / sponsored reviews. The reviewer believes in anonymously visiting a hotel to present an honest account of all the factors to you.

Happy Eating, Keep Exploring!!!!