Mahendra Hotel
Summary: Good highway eating joint
Getting there: On the Pune-Bangalore Highway at just before Satara on the Pune side
Don't Miss: Mahendra Special Veg
Food Cost: 50-100
Drinks Cost: 50-100
Description:
One of the few decent eating joints in the stretch from Pune to Kolhapur on the Pune-Bangalore highway.
Standard multi-cuisine menus. The spicy dishes are really spicy since it's Satara. So Beware.
We had a Mahendra Special Veg which consists of one spicy and one non spicy dry veg gravy. I liked the spicy gravy.
On our first visit we had chapatis but the next visit they said they claimed not to serve chappatis and we had to remind them that they served us a couple of days ago. Then they cribbed about chappatis taking a long time to make before finally getting them.
The Dal Tadka, Rotis, etc were also good.
The service is a bit poor which is probably a result of them being the only decent restaurant around that area.
