Spice Route

Area Served

About Spice Route

Spice Route specializes in cuisine that is primarily from the Southern states of India, which include Tamil Nadu (where most of our chefs are from), Karnataka, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh. The South is inhabited by about 300 million people with an unofficial count that is probably much higher. People of South Indian descent are found all over South Asia including Sri Lanka and Malaysia Geographically, South India’s coastal plains are backed by a ridge of low mountains, called the Western and Eastern Ghats that in turn lead to the Deccan Plateau, which occupies much of the central Southern peninsula. The similarities in the four states’ cuisines are the presence of rice as a staple food, the use of lentils and spices, the use of dried red chillies and fresh green chillies, coconut and native fruits and vegetables like tamarind, plantain, snake gourd, garlic, ginger, etc.