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Vandanam
A South Indian spread on a banana leaf: rolled crisp dosas, soft idlis, medu vadas, sambar, coconut and tomato chutney, and filter coffee

South Indian Food JointSouth Bopal, Ahmedabad

Crisp dosa. Soft idli. Sambar, poured hot.

Vandanam is Sanskrit for a respectful greeting. Here, it arrives on a banana leaf.

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Come in. The leaf is set.

4.7 on Google from 2,081 reviews

वन्दनम्

Vandanam: a respectful greeting

A South Indian table on Sun South Street.

Vandanam is a South Indian food joint in South Bopal, near Safal Parisar 1. The kitchen keeps to the classics: idli steamed soft, vada fried crisp, dosa spread thin on hot iron, sambar and rasam, coconut and tomato chutney.

Order from the menu card, or settle in for the unlimited buffet, with dosa and uttapam brought hot to your table.

  • À la carte, or the unlimited buffet at lunch and dinner
  • Jain and Swaminarayan options, marked on the menu
  • Outdoor catering for your occasions
A freshly spread dosa turning golden and crisp on a hot cast-iron tawa
Batter on hot iron, minutes from the table.
A brass davara and tumbler of frothy South Indian filter coffee on a banana leaf

The menu card

Idli, vada, dosa, rava dosa, rice and the premium buffet. Prices in Indian rupees.

  • Chef's special
  • Jain option available
  • Swaminarayan option available

From the kitchen, one dish at a time.

Idli in its steam, a dosa off the iron, sambar from the ladle, and then the whole leaf.

Soft steamed idlis and crisp medu vadas on a banana leaf, steam rising, with chutneys and sambar
Close-up of a torn idli showing its soft, porous crumb beside the crisp crust of a medu vada

Idli, steamed soft.

Rice and urad dal, steamed until the crumb is light enough to drink up sambar.

Medu vada, fried crisp.

A crackling ring outside, fluffy inside. Served with rasam or sambar and two chutneys.

A giant paper-thin golden dosa laid open across a banana leaf, with chutneys and sambar
Macro close-up of the lacy, crisp, golden surface of a dosa

Spread thin on hot iron.

The batter goes onto the tawa in a spiral and comes off as one golden, crackling sheet.

Paper, masala, Mysore, rava.

Pick your crunch from the dosa card. Every one comes with sambar and two chutneys.

Hot sambar poured from a brass ladle into a hammered brass bowl on a banana leaf

Straight from the ladle.

Sambar of lentils, tamarind and vegetables, simmered slow and poured hot into the bowl.

Rasam of the week, beside it.

On the buffet, the ladle keeps coming back.

A complete South Indian buffet meal on a banana leaf: rice, sambhar, rasam, korma, poriyal, salad, chutneys, idli, medu vada, dosa, Malabari paratha, appalam and kesari
A complete South Indian buffet meal on a banana leaf: rice, sambhar, rasam, korma, poriyal, salad, chutneys, idli, medu vada, dosa, Malabari paratha, appalam and kesari

Now, the whole leaf.

From the pots

  • Steamed rice
  • Sambar
  • Rasam
  • Mix veg korma

Sides and chutneys

  • Beans poriyal
  • Potato poriyal
  • Salad
  • Coconut chutney
  • Tomato chutney

Off the tawa, then dessert

  • Steamed idli
  • Medu vada
  • Dosa
  • Malabari paratha
  • Appalam
  • Kesari

This is the Vandanam buffet.

Unlimited at lunch and dinner, with dosa and uttapam brought hot to your table.

See buffet prices

Find us on Sun South Street.

Shop A 15, 16-17, Sun South StreetNear Safal Parisar 1, South BopalBopal, Ahmedabad, Gujarat 380057
Get directions+91 99782 20159

Call ahead for today's timings and table availability.

4.7out of 5 on Google

From 2,081 Google reviews.

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