Balaji Restaurant

I tried daal makhani and rice which were good in taste but please don't ever try there sweets as they will give you a life long bad taste of that particular item. Average price for food. But very low in cleanliness.

We Eat Allo Prantha, Onion Masala Dosa & Hot Milk Coffee. Prantha Taste not good not bad but one side not properly baked. Dosa Was not serve good way & not tasty it’s Over Masala. Hot Coffee not Serve Coffee Glass, It’s Serve in Normal disposal glass.

This is on main mall road and they are literally considering them 5 star restaurant and charging like anything. Almost 3 time price in the menu. You get lemon soda 60₹ and paobhaji 120 where 2 tiny size pao will be served. Extremely poor taste and charges are high. Not just this but near buy aashiyana restaurant is also charging heavily.

Bad taste. Just trying to make fool to the customer. Limited options to travellers to eat.

Worst food ever. Tanduri is like Papad and Butter Naans are also very bad.when I told the owner they they are arguing with me.plz don't waste your money. Very poor.

Nothing much could be expected in atmosphere here as it is in crowded mall road market. Food is averageand simple especially khichdi:)

Hospitable place with tasty food. Decent place for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Opens early. Closed late. Value for money

We randomly stopped by this place as it had a queue and the food looked appetising. We tried the following,

Bread Pakora
Jalebi
Pav Bhaji

Overall, it all tasted good. The price was reasonable, a good experience.

Very poor food quality. Late service too. When complained to the manager, he rudely said hum to aisa hi banate hain. Just don't eat here

Food quality is very low, service is slow, and when complained to the manager he replied - "hum to aisa hi banate hai". Please just don't eat here because it is on the main road. Avoid this restaurant.

Everything here is pathetic.

I ordered idli and it was the saddest idli I've ever had

Find a different place and don't waste your money here.

Pathetic management

One of the worst dinning experience one can ever had,
Ordered a Punjabi thali of which every thing was bad paneer was like four days back roti was half cooked rice was round and looks like boiled egg, salad was hell

Worst food i ever had
Specially Punjabi thali.
Dnt waste your money
Labour class food.

I got an worst experience from this resturant services and it's staff also very ill mannered, We purchased a dish named "Chole" of rupees 50 and they served us amounted 10 rupees chole instead of it! Quantity, Quality And most importantantly staff behaviour are the worst! Except cash counter person.

Dined in yesterday. Had very good quality food
Prices are reasonable too. Service is great. Can be a little more spacious since customers keep coming in large numbers. Highly recommended if you looking for a Good vegetarian food!

They serve already prepared samosa and breadpakoda. Tasts is really bad.
Heights is jalebi is also not freshs.will not suggest anyone to go.

Food is no good

Ordered veg biryani

They tossed mix veg with plain rice

Food is pathetic

Horrible experience here. We ordered veg thali, rice is also worst along with the curries. By seeing somany people here we thought food will be good but its worst. It would be better if you dont opt this restaurant.

Taste was terrible. Everything we ordered from South Indian, North Indian and chat items tasted gross.

Food is not properly cooked. Prices are high as compared to other restaurants. Staff is not cooperative.

Ordered milk shake and it was worst i ever had.
It was only water mixed with milk in a diposable glass.
No ingredients nothing.
I was able to distract water and milk inside my mouth.
Seriously what is this?

Horrible place pathetic food arrogant staff. I wonder how can some one cook such horrible food.

Worst masala dosa I have ever had in my life, My stomach hurts and uncooperative staff, this is my first negative review.

Totally crowded food is tasty we had a dosa very good service is little hectic but still a good place to have your south indian food keep it up Balaji

Nice place for family to eat veg meals. It's at the beginning of Mall Road. They serve Punjabi, Gujarati, Jaini, North Indian, South Indian and Chinese food here. They also serve hot milk that is reduced via boiling milk. They also serve pav bhaji and gulab jamun. Food is 100%pure vegetarian. One can come here with family and friends. No recommend for non veg lovers and no liquor served here. Informal dining

Food is testy here. Not so costly too.
Service time is also good.
Clean and tidy area.
North Indian, South Indian, Gujarati, Bangali food items available.

If ur looking to have south indian food in manali mall road.this is the place.also u get good chaats and sweets

No best place in manali worthy of South Indian. Here they gave turmeric water and said sambar and tossed the halfcooked rice with chillipowder and placed some tomoto pieces and said tomoto rice

Worst taste. Ordered Onion Plain Dosa and it was horrible. Better to eat at Shan-E-Punjab which is nearby and serves South Indian.

Ok ok taste.diverse menu but worthy only if you want a quick bite and don't have time to browse around.

I ordered masala dosa, grilled sandwich and chole bhatura only the bhatura was good otherones were just ok

Food is very bed, service is also bed, I was ordered Gujarati thali but all food like mix I haven't gujarati test in gujrati thali plz do not select this hotel.plz

The quality of food is very unhealthy. I had ordered a masala dosa and couldn’t eat one bite as the batter tasted as it was prepared from very old rice and tasted really bad.

Just had Gulab Jamun from here. It’s worth tasting.

Note: - The rating is only for Gulab Jamun

I tried Punjabi Thali here @190, it had sufficcient quantity to fulfil 2 people! And the food was yum, bit spicy though. Ambience was worst though!

Very poor service.
Ordered 1 dosa. Very terrible sambar, even coconut chutney seems like paste, dosa was burnt. And 1 Punjabi thali ordered. Portions was too small, tandoori rotis seems like burnt paaper.

Staff is rude and unprofessional. Stale sweets were served. They don't know how to talk to the customers. Never try this restaurant.

Ordered masala dosa. Which i think was stale. My wife got stomache and helath issues after eating that dosa. They did not admit that food was not good

Food just ok. Ambience just ok.we dont have any other option to have south india/Andhra/telugu food.so, we have tried in this Restaurant.

Veg food only. Taste was good.

Rates are Reasonable.

Butter masala paneer curry was good.

Butter Naan and Tandoori roti also good. ️

-Ve: We have asked to replace plate more than 3 times. ️️️

Pathetic service and cleanliness. No basic courtesy from the staff. Not even a hand wash available.

The place is little dirty and unhygenic. It is good for snacks and hot sweets. However the north Indian food is way below average. The staff are also ignorant and do not bother about the food ordering and service too.

The place has very low cleanliness and seems to be cramped.
Ordered some masala dosas, but when served, we found that they were stale and had a bad smell. But still, they tried to convince us to eat that food. Later we ordered pav bhaji as an alternate option but that too was terrible. It was not stale but the taste and quality was poor. The curry was watery and tasteless while the bread was quite dry.

If you are from north india then please don't visit this place. Dont order north indian food and fried.

The staff is too rude and ignorant. They behave like they are giving us free food. Worst food I have ever tasted in Manali and everywhere. Kindly give training to your staff and manager regarding service. Pathetic service.

The floor was all dirty. The food that i ordered (pulao and veg fried rice) were bad. Pulao was too spicy

Food is pretty average. You won't find much similarity between standard food taste and what they serve there.

First of all, the kitchen and washing area (what little I was able to see from the sitting area) is incredibly dirty and ignorant of hygiene.
The food tastes awful. I ordered a masala dosa along with chutney and sambar. Sarbar was bearable in taste and the chatni was horrendous. Chutney was runny and taste. More or less every item on my plate lacked flavours. And adding to that, I found hair in my chutney. It's a bit costly but if the food had been good I wouldn't have bothered to give this restaurant 1 star.

So the gist is, if you want to waste money to eat dull food, it's your place.

Worst experience i had here
Food was not up to the mark
We ordered
1. Soup: worst taste only watery soup with unboiled vegetables
2. Veg kolhapuri: same thing no spices nothing in that, even no salt was there in that.
I told waiter about this, his reply "maine thodi banayi hai" (i havent made that dish) such a foolish peoples working.
3. Pav bhaji: same things.
We told owner, he dont care we were telling him, and he was ignoring and was talking on call.

Here i have attached images.

Good location. We as group of 9 had breakfast for twice in second week of January 2019.tried different items like channa batooran, cheese sandwich, paneer paratha. Everything was worth it.