Since the 1990s
Traditional food, cooked the traditional way
Bati Vatika is a family establishment of desi tradition — a kitchen that has been cooking the food of our grandmothers for three decades.
The owner
Harendra Pratap Singh
Owner, Bati Vatika
“बाटी वाटिका के व्यंजन में दादी का दुलार है, नानी का प्यार है, माँ का मनुहार है।”
In the food of Bati Vatika there is a grandmother's affection, a grandmother's love and a mother's coaxing to eat one more. That line is printed on our menu, and it is the whole idea of the place.
Harendra Pratap Singh has been cooking Indian traditional food since the 1990s. Not restaurant food dressed up as tradition, but the dishes that were made in village kitchens — sattu baati, litti with ghee, chokha roasted on open fire, kadhi-badi, nimona and thekua sweetened with desi gur.
Bati Vatika exists to keep that food alive and to share it. Every dish on the menu is cooked to order, which is why we ask for fifteen to twenty minutes after you order.
How it grew
1990s
A family kitchen
Harendra Pratap Singh began cooking the traditional food of the region — baati, litti, chokha, dal and desi sweets — the way it was made at home, on slow fire and with desi ghee.
Weddings
Cooking for celebrations
Word spread from family tables to weddings and functions. The same kitchen began cooking for hundreds of guests, and a team grew around it to manage the whole event.
Today
Bati Vatika, Phaphamau
Bati Vatika — desi vyanjan griha — brings that cooking to everyone. A family establishment built on desi tradition, serving the food of our grandmothers to anyone who walks in.
Weddings & events
Our team manages your celebration
Alongside the restaurant, our event management team looks after weddings and events — the food, the arrangements and the guests — with guest-house style hospitality.
- Weddings
- Traditional menus for the wedding feast, from baati-chokha counters to full thalis, cooked fresh on site.
- Family functions
- Birthdays, anniversaries, tilak, mundan and every family gathering in between.
- Events & gatherings
- Planning, food and service for community and corporate events, large or small.
- Guest-house hospitality
- Guests looked after the way a family looks after its own — warmly, and with plenty to eat.
Desi parampara
Promoting Indian traditional food
- Baati & litti
- Stuffed with sattu, roasted over the fire and dipped in desi ghee.
- Chokha & bharta
- Vegetables roasted on open flame and mashed with mustard oil, garlic and green chilli.
- Village recipes
- Rikwachh, mungauri, nimona, dal pithauri — dishes that are disappearing from restaurant menus.
- Desi sweets
- Thekua, bakheer and malpua, sweetened with desi gur.
Come and taste the food of home.