It’s weekend and party time with friends and family. However, for those slogging it out at the workplace, organising the party is one big chore. The easy way out would be to look for a place serving nice hot food in large portions. Thankfully, the city has many such eateries, where grub is sold in kilos, gravies and curries are decanted in litres and carrying your own container can avail you of some discount.

Your first stop is Nammura Hotel, an eatery tucked in JP Nagar, quite close to Raghavendra Swamy Temple. This shop with its wide array of north and south Indian delights is a good option if you are planning a vegetarian spread. Pick up some hot and lip-smacking pathrode, crunchy chats, paneer pakodas as starters. Regale your guests with amazing drumstick biriyani, yummy bisibele bhath and spicy hot sambar.

Look out as second helpings of puliyogare, lemon rice and tomato rice with rajma masala and chutney and sinful kaju rice topped with kadhai paneer simply disappear off the plates. Dole out the delectable desserts like Horlicks-flavoured burfis, melt-in-the-mouth obattu and succulent hot gulab jamuns.

With high hygiene quotient and state-of-the-art infrastructure, this place enjoys a huge turnover throughout the year. Nammura Hotel also offers catering services and supplies food to offices.

Want to serve your guests some traditional south Indian fare? Head to Bhojana Gruha for its delicious spread of vartha kolambu, moru kolambu, poondu kolambu and ennai kathrika kolambu.

You can pick up some great Chettinad sweet delights, and the must tries are akkaravadisal, ukarai and sajjappam. Bhojana Gruha also serves Chinese cuisine and there are some great soups and starters to choose from. You get a discount if you carry your own containers to pack the food in.

Almost 8,000 kg of food is served daily and there is a separate menu for calorie watchers and diabetics. If you like the food, you could take back home some great spicy chutney powders and instant curry powders.

Treating guests has never been so easy.