Ali Bhai's Thattakada

This might be the last restaurant which I guess I am visiting before leaving the campus but for sure not the last one in Calicut. After my friend insisted me to be part of the bike rally for Calicut marathon, we decided to go and try their famous fried ice-cream. It was around evening at 6 pm and the restaurant wasn’t crowded. Their AC section was closed and the ambiance on the ground floor didn’t seem as exciting as it seems in the picture. It was dark and the staff didn’t seem interested enough to even carefully listen to what we asked for. But no matter what, the ice-cream was great and worth the price of Rs 100. Comparing it with the cream stone ice-cream, I feel fried ice-cream finishes ahead in the race.

Dhe Puttu

A place I have been long trying to visit and finally did it just before leaving Calicut for good. Just as the name suggests, you see puttu all over once you enter this place. The wall has a nice painting of a train caring puttus and the ambiance is subtle but I felt the staff wasn’t that friendly or tired/bored, for the first time in a place like Calicut where everybody is very excited and sweet. The server didn’t even seem interested in answering questions which we had asked on the food items as we were unaware of many of the Malayalam words. The menu is something interesting with things such as Veg/Chicken/Mix Biryani puttu, chocolate puttu, and banana puttu. They serve masala tea (without milk) with every meal that can be refilled as many times you demand. Their staff t-shirts look similar to the designs IIM Kozhikode has for its sports event. I chose Keema puttu and egg curry, while my friend chose to have Chemba puttu with kadala curry. Both were really good and they serve it with some banana sliced with honey and the combination tastes brilliant.