Searching for lip smacking, mouth watering ethnic Indian Cuisine at Arizona? Your search stops at Dawaat Indian Cuisine, 18635N. 35th Ave Suite, #107, Phoenix, AZ, 85027.

Daawat is a contemporary Indian fusion restaurant with an excellent ambiance and customer friendly service, that offers traditional north Indian, Moghali, South Indian, Hyderabadi and Indo-Chinese dishes. The traditional and ethnic preparation without compromising on the quality and taste, makes Daawat stand alone in the crowd.

Hyderabadi cuisine also known as Deccani cuisine, is the native cooking style of the Hyderabadies, that began to develop after the foundation of the Bahmani Sultanate and more drastically with the Qutb Shahi dynasty around the city of Hyderabad. It is an amalgamation of Mughal, Turkish and Arabic along with the influence of the native Telugu and Marathwada cuisines.

Hyderabadi cuisine comprises of a broad repertoire of rice, wheat and meat dishes and the extremely skilled use of various spices, herbs and natural edibles. The Hyderabadi cuisines features key flavours of coconut, tamarind, peanuts and sesame. The key spice is chilli, which is used in abundance and is the reason to describe Hyderabadi cuisine – " fiery!".

Hyderabadi cuisine draws its flavors from two rich legacies, the Deccani cuisine of Nizams with its delectable biryanis (rice flavored with meat and vegetables), haleem (pounded wheat and mutton dish) and kebabs and the spicy Andhra style of food, laced with mustard, garlic and chillies and eaten with doles of chutney and pickle.

Daawat is an ideal place to savour your favourites along with your friends and familly. The place is popular among the Indian community, but also a place for Arizonian to come and smack the mouth watering dishes. Daawat Indian cuisine brings the original taste from back India to Arizona without any loss of tradition and heritage.

By Premji