Chowrastha - Indian Eatery austin cedar park

Obviously I'm not an expert on Indian food, but really liked their creamy chicken curry, their naan and the mango lassi.
The place is always busy and that called my attention. The staff is very friendly and I'll definitely go back to try other dishes.

I’ve taken out the vijayawada boneless biryani and guthi vankay biryani. Both tasted so good. I ordered chicken biryani spicy, and it did taste very spicy and i loved it. The medium spicy guthi vankay is also spicy. My go to biryani restaurant now. I hope the quality stays like this for long time to come.

Update: chicken fry biryani was good as well.
Update: Chicken dum biryani is great
Update: chef special pulau was amazing. Tried chicken tikka frankie and paneer tikka frankie both are great.. mirchi bajji and mysore bonda are authentic, irani chai is great as well
Update: tried their vegetarian biryani and I’m blown away by the quality and taste. Must have

Why low ratings? No idea honestly..

Updated Review : Updating my review from 2 to 3 for their Non Veg items. Their Non Veg biriyanis and gravies were good. Once in an event having biriyani was very good. So tried buying non veg items like Fish fry, chicken gravy , chicken biryani, shrimp biriyani , Guntur spicy gravy and they were really good. Tried Paneer Wrap and that was good too. Soo started getting only non veg food from here. The chicken gravy which they give along with the Poori is totally good. But still the poori is not upto the expectation. So it would be good they can do more improvements so that they can get 4 or 5 stars.

Old Review :

This is a new Restaurant which was recently opened. Heard it’s been an overcrowded place as it was newly launched. So tried my first time over there. We got a Paneer Fried rice and vegetable pulao but was disappointed as the pulao was not having good taste and the paneer fried rice was like a Paneer Biriyani. This made me think how come heavy crowd. But while waiting for the order I saw many people ordering the Karam Podi Dosa, Poori with chicken curry, paneer wrap and chat items.

With this bad experience I was curious how come so much of crowd. So next time ordered dosa and paneer wrap and they were better. May be that is why more gathering I felt.

When coming to cleanliness not much neatness or cleanliness. The starters were not even warm and crispy.

This is place has more parking as this is in Gas Station.

It’s a gas station eatery, don’t let that discourage you from trying it out!
We dined in Saturday evening. It was quite busy even around 8.30 PM, service time was consistent with the crowd. The staff certainly works hard fulfilling orders as fast as they can.
You order at the counter, pay and seat yourself. They call out your order as items come out of the kitchen.
In terms of the taste, 3/5 rating is ample. Not really bland or bad food, but nothing that we would go out of our way for.
We got Dahi Puri and Aloo Tikki chaat, both of which have ragda (a white pea curry) which is a deviation from North Indian chaat norm, but not at all out of place for Mumbai chaat.
The chicken Frankie and chicken sandwhich contained the same filling, which was a little funny because we specifically asked if they were different before ordering, and were told they are two distinct items.
The chana poori was spicy and the pooris (3 of them in an order) were large and well-fried.
Their Iranian chai was sweet and milky, a good way to end the meal.