Ramesh Namkeen Bhandar - Food review

Name it as CFC - chaos, food and confusion. Chaos, as if all people have taken pledge to not to eat at home and come to this place. Food is good, and then comes the confusion. The front sales desk guy is so confused, that people who want to eat is getting their orders packed and the people who are for take away are getting served. However, is this CFC worth? May be yes or may be no.

Where it is? 2151/1A, Opposite Metro Pillar 244, Patel Rd, Ranjeet Nagar, Block B, New Patel Nagar, Khampur, New Delhi, Delhi 110008. Though easily accessible by Shadipur metro station, but one may struggle for parking. No arrangements for sitting and all eating has to be done standing. That is ok if you are here for a quick bite. However, the catch here is waiting time, 15-20 minutes of waiting is too much for a quick bite. Waiting time may shoot if your take away is served or vice versa and then you have to wait another couple of minutes to get it right.

Food is tasty and no second doubts about that. Eatery scores well on the scale of taste. Viands tried were chole bhature, naan chole and lassi. Other option available with naan is dal makhni, which had quite decent on looks. 

Naan and bhature were well dozed with paneer and clearly wins a Punjabi heart. Chole were tasty, not too spicy served with cooked tangy amla and flavorful pudina chutney. Will not say that Chole were out of the place as one can find such tasty chole served by innumerable eateries in Delhi. 

Lassi would have done the job better if had been more cold. However, it was well prepared, very creamy, but being not too cold made it a cold serving.

Hygiene was average and one can’t expect more from the store considering the working staff versus Customer ratio.

Enter the store, on the left pay for your food and collect the token. Now, on the right struggle starts. People are bumping into each other, trying hard to handle the token to the person on other side of the counter. This part of the story is chaos and mother of confusion. The man with so many shouting hands gets confused and forgets the order queue, mixes two orders, serves take away and, and, and. Confusion has taken birth.

Pricing is on a bit higher side when compared with established legacy eateries such as Sita ram in Paharganj, Nand Chole bhature wala in Sadar Bazar, and many more in the same price range. Chole bhature plate is priced for 70 and half for 50. Half plate is more appreciable at 40 or 45; Please do not typecast me as a stingy, this how the undocumented half plate rule is. Naan Plate priced at 80, is costly when compared with quantity and quality of Naan eateries in Paharganj.

So what is the USP? Paneer stuffed bhatura and Naan. Your Punjabi love for paneer is the only driving force and is not something that you are missing in life. Will I visit the place once again? I would never specially go for it, but also not against the visit. Place is worth of once a try.

Happy eating… J