Manikonda
Idly at forty rupees, dosa at fifty-five, filter coffee at twenty-five. Tiffins from seven, rice and Chinese from noon, straight through to half ten. Clean plates, honest prices, the same since day one.
4.3 / 5 from 1,993 diners on Justdial
7:00 am — 12:30 pm · 5:00 — 10:30 pm
Idly, vada and dosa from first light to half twelve — then the griddle comes back on at five and runs to closing. Filter coffee all day.
See the tiffins12:00 pm — 10:30 pm
From noon to close, without a break: biryani and rice plates, rotis with dal and curry, and the Indo-Chinese counter — Manchurian, fried rice, noodles.
See the evening menuThe full plate
Two rotis, or naan, or kulcha — with dal and curry alongside. It's the plate the lunch room plans its errands around, and the reason “generous portions” turns up in review after review. Butter or garlic naan is ₹120; paneer kulcha with raitha is ₹80.
House favourites
Some counters run all day; two of these you can only get in a narrow window.
Three idly, ghee and spiced podi pressed into every one.
From noon · ₹100The newest thing on the board, and already the one people ask for.
4:30 – 7 pm · ₹40Two and a half hours a day only — the Andhra tea-time classic.
All day · ₹60Set with jaggery. Rare enough that finding it is the reason to come.
Our kitchen
A seven o'clock idly means a four o'clock start — soaking, grinding, letting the batter come up in its own time, and scrubbing down a kitchen that diners keep noticing in their reviews. That's the whole method. There isn't a second one.
Read our story“[Pull quote from the owner — one warm sentence on why Taara Kitchen exists.]”
In diners’ own words
Quoted from public Justdial reviews — never written by us.
“Taara Kitchen is an absolute gem! The generous portion sizes are impressive, ensuring you leave feeling satisfied without breaking the bank.”
Hygiene is the single most repeated word in the reviews — the kitchen and the dining room both.
Veg and vegan options right across the menu. Nobody has to read the small print.
Friendly, helpful service that regulars mention almost as often as the food.
Generous portions without the bill climbing — a theme running through years of reviews.
Theme summaries above come from Justdial’s published “Key Insights” for this listing (Jul 2026) — for the owner to approve before launch.
Gallery
Every slot is reserved for a real photograph from the restaurant — no stock food photography, ever.
Good to know
Every day, 7:00 am – 10:30 pm, straight through — there's no afternoon closure. What changes is the counter: tiffins run 7:00 am – 12:30 pm and again 5:00 – 10:30 pm, rice, rotis and Chinese from noon to close, and evening snacks 4:30 – 7:00 pm. (From the restaurant's own menu board.)
Road No. 5, Sri Laxmi Nagar Colony, Manikonda, Hyderabad, Telangana 500089. Open in Google Maps.
Every item on the restaurant’s own menu board is vegetarian — there is no meat, fish or egg anywhere on it. [Owner to confirm pure-veg status before we state it as a claim.]
Delivery is listed as available. Call +91 92170 02598 or message on WhatsApp — every dish on the menu has an order button that writes the message for you. [Swiggy / Zomato links to be added once confirmed.]
Before 12:30, ghee karam idly (₹70) and a filter coffee (₹25). At noon, the veg biryani (₹100). Between 4:30 and 7, punugulu (₹40) — they only run for those two and a half hours.
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