I was in the area for the weekend and was craving sweets, specifically milk kalakand type. This place came up on the top of the list of nearby stores. Reviews had me worried, but thought nobody could mess up kalakand, so gave this place a try. Not sure if it was because of my low expectations, but I was totally blown away by the quality of the sweets here. When I got there, I saw that they have bobbatlu, junnu, kova kajjikaayalu, 3 types of pootharekulu, ariselu, a variety of murukulu along with other sweets and savory items. The telugu "tindibothu" in me greedily wanted everything, but restrained myself to kova kajjikaayalu, bellam with nuts pootarekulu, bobbatlu and raagi murukulu. Ignored kalakand altogether, you can get that anywhere :) Everything tasted super fresh, definitely high quality. Each one of them melted in my mouth. What I really enjoyed was that all of them had balanced sweetness. Enjoyed every bite and I would recommend this place without hesitation. read more

This place is just okay. The customer service was excellent and the people working there were respectable but the food was not that great and it wasn't anything special. I found it to be overly pricy too. We got 4 things - jackfruit curry, potharekalu, gulab jamun and sambhar. The jackfruit curry was overly sour, the sambhar was plain tasting and the potharekalu hardly had any powdered sugar in between the thin stale paper. Only thing we liked was the taste of the gulab jamun we had. I would never recommend this place to anyone. read more

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Good for sweet and snack always get fresh samosas and choice of gravy and podi variety

They moved from Duluth to Cumming. Provide only takeout - snacks and curries . Quick customer service. read more

Maruthi Foods - Putharekhulu Chekodi Hareselu Chekkalu Murukulu Palakova - Indian Near Me - Cumming, Georgia

Your quality is going down, have to improve. Yesterday I bought "Mysore Pack" AND Jilebi..The person working there said its fresh but its very old and discussing taste. I will never go again there. When uncle was there it was amazing.. Not sure if he is still there or not. But quality went down badly. Its an honest feedback, I hope you will increase the quality... read more

Found this place is quite expensive for nothing. All Indian stores sell Samosa for $1 or less. Here, it is $1.50 for Samosa. Bought some Samosa's to see the difference. Pathetic quality. Samosa's are supposed to crispy, but here they are saggy like rubber. Never again. I guess they just charge more to cover their low volume sales. I go there only when I run out of all other options. read more

Other day I noticed this place when I was driving by and decided to give it a go. Maruthi is another vegetarian only south-Indian restaurant in Duluth area. In fact, it's close to one of my favorite south-Indian vegetarian restaurant, Udipi cafe. Maruthi is not exactly a new restaurant - they used to be located on the same peachtree industrial blvd not too far from the new location, in a shopping complex right across the street from Blue Fin(Japanese restaurant) and golf course. The new location is at the same strip mall as highly reviewed 'Flying roll' and Craze. The restaurant is open from 4 pm to 9.30 pm on tuesdays to sunday and they are closed on Monday. We went there around 5.30 pm, to see what the place like and also to pick up some food for dinner. The restaurant inside has simple decor with counter to order your food and some 8 tables to dine-in. You order, pay, dine-in or taking it togo. They also cater food and have a separate menu for that as well. In fact, that seem to be their primary business there. And they also sell Dosa batter, Indian desserts, Indian spicy mango pickles and other Indian food items - I was told that all of those were made in-house. When we entered, there were no customers inside the restaurant(which is expected considering it was just 5.30 pm) and we were greeted by a lady on the counter. She gave us the menu and offered us help choosing as well. The menu contains appetizers, Tiffins(Simple small portion food), Dosas, Rava(coarsely ground Semolina) Dosas, Moong(green gram) dosas, Variety of rice dishes, uthapams and desserts. We ordered the following items. 1) Spinach Onion Pakora 2) idli sambar 3) Chapati with mixed vegetarian Kurma The spinach onion pakora is like fritters made with Gram flour(or chickpeas flour), Onions, spinach and curry leaves, mixed together and deep fried. The pakora was crispy outside and bit soft inside(from the onion inside). It was also seasoned just right and portion was big for $4.99 appetizer/snack. It was a good snack. Idli Sambar : only difference between this and idly item in the menu is this - the idli item comes with sambar on the side and you have to dunk it down in Sambar yourself, whereas the 'idli sambar' item is idli soaked in lots of sambar. The idli was not the best I have tasted but it was decent. And Sambar was made in AndraPradesh(a southern state in India) style with more sourness than I generally like, but it was ok. (By the way, Idli is a steamed cake made with rice and lentil based batter. And Sambar is made with yellow pigeon peas, tamarind, tomato and spices. It usually goes well with Idli, Dosa and rice) Chapati was warm and soft, as it should be(thumb rule for how moist it should be is that you should be able to tear off a piece with just thumb, index and middle finger of one hand). Kurma is just a dish made with meat or assortment of vegetables in a spicy, yogurt or cashew nut based sauce. Again, not the best Kurma I have eaten but it wasn't bad. This was my partner's favorite dish of all. Overall, I still think Udipi is better vegetarian south-indian restaurant but Maruthi was holds its own. Especially considering that food at Maruthi is cheaper than Udipi. If they priced it same as Udipi, I would have given it just 3 stars but most of the items are between $4 to $7 and in fact the expensive dish in their menu was just $7.49. You get a lot for less bucks and for that it gets extra star. 4 stars. read more

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Heard a lot about this place so decided to give it a try. Customer service was absolutely inept. They didn't have half the items we needed and the attitude of the middle-aged billing person was terrible. His responses felt as if he was doing us a favor by giving us the food. In fact, we needed half a pound of Jalebi and he said he didn't have any despite his co-worker saying that they have more in the back. When I asked him about it, he went to the back of store, put a few pieces in the box, didn't even weigh it and gave it to us. Coming to the food, samosas were not great, Bellam Jilebi was terrible (Spice hut has much better Bellam Jilebi which is crispy and tasty), Jhangri/Imarti is absolutely terrible as its too hard to eat (literally my jaws became numb from chewing it). Only saving grace is their Badusha but again not sure if one needs to visit this poorly run place for this one item. read more

There is no dearth of Restaurants that serve Indian food in the Duluth-John's Creek-Alpharetta area, however, there are not many that actually serve good, authentic Indian Regional food. It is important to know that India is culturally diverse, language and dialects change every 50 miles. India has 29 states and 7 Union Territories and each state has it's own ethnic/religious communities. So cuisine varies state to state and within the state as well. To cut the long story short, there is nothing called "Indian Cuisine", most Indian restaurants serve popular dishes from a few different cuisines and that too with their own twist. So finding this place was fantastic. Their main business is that of catering so don't expect anything except a very clean and comfortable seating area. The food is vegetarian and if you ignore the "Chaat" section you get the authentic food from South India. While each state in South India has its own regional cuisines, there are a few dishes that are popular across all states like Dosa, Uttappa, Idli etc. The difference is in the Sambar and that recipe varies states to state. We ordered, Onion and Spinach Pakora, Medu Vada, Upma and Butter Mysore Masala Dosa. The best thing about the meal was that it was prepared fresh and was served hot as soon as it was done. Everything had flavor and was fresh. We were able to finish everything that we ordered except the Upma that we got it to-go. The Dosa was on a spicy side because of the dry chutney that is used in a Mysore Dosa but had some fantastic flavors. The service was great. Their card-swipe machine was giving a problem so the owner told us to come and pay later whenever we could as we did not have cash. We drove to the nearest ATM got cash and paid on our way. When you are there do not miss their Boondi Ladoos and Chakli. read more

I found Murathi Foods thanks to the Yelp app. This is my second visit. Upon entering I could see the staff hard at work in the kitchen preparing home cooking. I was treated with courtesy and provided with a delicious meal for my family. read more

Maruthi Foods - Entrance - Indian Near Me - Cumming, Georgia

Very flavourful and cheap vegetarian cusine. They only have vegetarian but it served with this huge and tasty crepe called dosa. The owner who makes the food also made food for the hindu temple, kind of a priest. Very cool. Highly recommended. Not at all bland. Want to try something different- this is it. read more

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Nice little place with Indian vegetarian food. Family run. Clean and quick service Decent list on the menu and priced lower than most Indian restaurants If you are looking for a no frills, authentic Indian experience, this is the place read more

I'm a big fan of Indian food, tho I'm definitely still learning about all the different dishes. Everything I know about Southern Indian cuisine, I pretty much learned from Praveen's review below. But I got the Groupon deal for Maruthi and tried it the other day. After admitting to the lady that I had no idea what to order, and seeing as the menu has no descriptions of anything, I asked her to suggest things. We decided on Spinach Onion Pakora, one of the Dosas but I'm not sure which, Mixed vegetable Uttapam, and Tamarind rice. This was a take-away order; Maruthi is clean but not long on ambiance so unless you're just grabbing a quick lunch, take-away is perfect. The food came out in a reasonable amount of time, a tower of styrofoam containers that made me think I'd ordered way too much food for two people, but Oh Well! Everything was really tasty, with just the right amount of spiciness, and not at all oily. The rice was just on the edge of being too spicy so we put some of it into the soup that came with the Dosas and that was terrific, although I'm sure it was some kind of blasphemy to do it! I will definitely go back and try more dishes at Maruthi. For just over $20 we had a huge dinner for two with enough leftover for an ample lunch the next day. read more

For anyone looking for traditional South Indian cuisine (esp Andhra tiffins) this is the place to go. It's almost impossible to find this place if your are not looking for it, may be they are trying to hide from the crowd. Great place to have a dosa or idly or any other Andhra specials. read more

Average tasting sweets, if they're ever available, that is. Poor service - manager (middle aged man) is quite rude. Multiple experiences so far. Won't come back. read more

Hands down, the most flavorful South Indian food in Atlanta. The ambiance is not too much to write about but for a foodie like me, this place rocks. I am hoping that they maintain the quality. read more

Loved the food the spice the taste. Everything is just perfect. I discovered this place recently enough, and visited them twice. They have South Indian tiffins, snacks, pickles actually everything about this place is South Indian and vegetarian. Totally tasty authentic South Indian food. I love it there, if ever I crave South Indian food, I know I am going back there again. read more

Fantastic food, very nice waitress was helpful assisting with choosing dishes, we had never had South Indian cuisine before. We ordered a sampling of everything and got way too much food for about $30. Everything we ordered was delicious. We will definitely be back. I liked the chaat samosa the best, but the soup that comes with the dosa is amazing, and of the desert treats that we sampled I liked the round ball things the best. Yum. read more

This was our first visit to this place and we are impressed. All the food items that we ordered were full of flavor and very close to taste of home cooked food. We recommend this place and a must visit for every South Indian food lover read more

Very good restaurant for vegetarians. Feels like home food. Cannot suggest anything, every item is a special. read more

I have been itching to visit this place for a long time. Yesterday I did. We ordered vadas and a couple of dosas. The taste was good. The place is clean and bright but not too jazzy. The prices are more competitive than many other Indian restaurants in Atlanta area. The flavor is like home-cooked meals. Good and clean affordable South Indian veg restaurant. It also serves chat items. read more

They are NOT open for lunch. At least not today at 12:45. Hope they can check their listing and change appropriately, as I certainly wasted 30 minutes of my time. read more

We have tried eating at the restaurant a few times and used their carry out orders at least on two occasions in less than a month to entertain guests at home. They took our suggestions to reduce salt in couple of items and hopefully this will become a good practice. Their recipes are excellent. Keep up the good work. read more