Balaji Mess - Fremont (CA)

5 /5 Vincent Gatdula: Join them on Whatsapp or IG for info on their events and promotions. Looks like they have a regular weekend breakfast (9-11AM) and lunch thali buffet. Food isnt too spicy but also full of flavor. Quiet atmosphere! Also has dosa and biryani happy hours ($7.99 dosas and $10.99 dine in biryanis from 3-10pm)

1 /5 Madan Jayaprakasam: I was extremely disappointed with the “Ambur Biryani” served here. It was nowhere close to Ambur Biryani in taste, style, or recipe. This wasn’t a small variation, it felt like a completely different biryani being passed off under the Ambur Biryani name. Just using Seeraga Samba rice does not make it Ambur Biryani. The style of cooking, spice balance, technique, and overall recipe are what define a regional dish, not just the rice. If a dish does not follow that style at all, it feels misleading to customers. More importantly, using a regional name without respecting the actual style and recipe feels like misrepresenting a culinary identity and passing off a false identity of the dish. Restaurants can create their own biryani and use creative names, and that’s completely fine. But when you use the name of a specific regional dish, there should be some honesty and responsibility in representing what it truly is. If you are looking for anything close to Ambur Biryani, this is not the place. On top of that, the biryani that was served was also below average in overall taste and quality. Their Chicken 65 was also so bad that we had to send it back to the kitchen for a replacement because it was under-seasoned and missing salt.

5 /5 Aravind Babu: This is recently opened and the food is amazing. The jackfruit biryani here is a must, tasted so well. The restaurant is kind enough to make alterations to our needs definitely well dine here more often.

5 /5 Shiby Surendranath: We had the unlimited breakfast today morning and the food was delicious. They served a lot of items pongal, upma, puri, dosa, idli, kesari. Good value for money and the food is fresh. Loved it. The staff was very pleasant. Definitely a go to spot for south Indian breakfast. For non veg palate they surprisingly they also served fish and chicken curry for breakfast. They have a lunch thali that I now look forward to after tasting their chicken curry. So more to come :)

1 /5 Dan McGee: I ordered takeout online and got a time to pick up. When I got to the restaurant, I was told that none of the items were available, and my order was cancelled, so instead I ordered lamb curry and waited. When I got home and opened it, there was hardly any meat in the curry, but I had to pick a lot of bones out. After removing the bones, I was left with a few meager pieces of lamb and mostly gravy. This was worth less than half the price. I will not be coming back.