"ITC's progressive South Indian table arrives in Delhi: a tasting-menu journey through the southern coast that opens on a 24-hour tomato rasam and reads like fine dining, not a thali."
Avartana opened at ITC Maurya in 2023, the fifth of ITC Hotels' progressive South Indian restaurants after the original in Chennai. It reworks the flavours and ingredients of the southern peninsula into a contemporary tasting-menu format, plated and paced like fine dining rather than served as a traditional thali.
It sits inside ITC Maurya on Sardar Patel Marg in the Chanakyapuri diplomatic enclave. For the wider field see the New Delhi dining guide.
The kitchen, run by ITC Hotels' Avartana team, builds several tasting menus of escalating length, from the seven-course Maya to the thirteen-course Anika and the coastal Tara. The meal opens on a French-pressed tomato rasam, a clear broth brewed over 24 hours, runs through a shrimp dumpling that reimagines the southern dumpling tradition, and ends on a fennel panna cotta finished with angel-hair caramel.
See more of the city's fine-dining tables in the New Delhi guide.
The dining room is dark, contemporary and low-lit, designed for a long, paced tasting menu rather than a quick meal, with cocktails crafted to match each course. It suits a couple or a small group settling in for an evening, and the mood is calm and modern. As a hotel fine-dining room inside ITC Maurya, it is best booked ahead.
The format is a set tasting menu, so the route is chosen for you: start with the nine-course menu at around 3,750 rupees plus tax for a first visit, which takes in the 24-hour tomato rasam, the shrimp dumpling and the fennel panna cotta. Longer menus run to eleven and thirteen courses. For other options, see the fine-dining picks across New Delhi.
Avartana suits a first date or a milestone dinner: a dark, modern tasting-menu room where the pacing and the paired cocktails carry the evening. See more first-date tables and the New Delhi dining guide.
Not for a quick lunch or anyone after a traditional South Indian thali: Avartana is a long, paced tasting menu in a hotel fine-dining room, built for an unhurried evening rather than a fast, familiar meal.
Avartana is a progressive South Indian restaurant operated by ITC Hotels, which opened at ITC Maurya in New Delhi in 2023 as the fifth in the brand after the original in Chennai. It reworks the flavours of the southern peninsula into a contemporary tasting-menu format, plated and paced like fine dining rather than served as a traditional thali, with cocktails matched to each course.
Avartana is inside ITC Maurya on Sardar Patel Marg, in the Chanakyapuri diplomatic enclave of New Delhi, Delhi 110021. It is a dark, contemporary hotel fine-dining room designed around a long tasting menu. As one of several signature restaurants at ITC Maurya, alongside Bukhara and Dum Pukht, it is best booked in advance, particularly for weekend evenings.
Avartana offers several tasting menus of escalating length, from the seven-course Maya to the thirteen-course Anika and the coastal Tara. A nine-course menu runs about 3,750 rupees plus taxes per person, which is a sensible first visit. The meal opens on a 24-hour French-pressed tomato rasam, runs through a shrimp dumpling, and ends on a fennel panna cotta with angel-hair caramel.
The menu is a set tasting progression, so the courses are chosen for you. The nine-course menu is the natural starting point, taking in the signature French-pressed tomato rasam brewed over 24 hours, a shrimp dumpling that reimagines the southern dumpling tradition, and a fennel panna cotta to finish. Pair it with the spiced cocktails the kitchen builds to match each course.
Via itchotels.com - ITC Maurya
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