Orange Pekoe - Kotagiri

The place is located on the Kotagiri - Ooty road. The hotel is quite big with washroom. The view from the property is good. But found the food to be below average compared to hotels in ooty. But if you are travelling on Kotagiri to Ooty or vice versa, this is only the decent hotel to have food at .From my personal experience the place is great but food not up to the mark.

The only thing positive about this place is its location and accessiblity.Located on the ooty-kotagiri main road.The food here is bad.Tried the manchow soup which had no taste except pepper and was stale.The chicken pulao and ghee rice were bland.The service is pathetic.Nobody cares.Not worth the money.Avoid this place.

Orange Peekoe restaurant is on Kotagiri – Ooty Roda, about 3-4 Km from Kotagiri town.The place looks chirpy from outside, but looks very functional after you enter.There is a nice view of the tea gardens, if you get place to sit at the windows.Food itself is just about ok; Food was served with a lot of oil even though we had requested to avoid oil. So not really customer oriented.But then there is not much of choice in Kotagiri. So if you feel having a change, you can try this place. Do go with minimal expectation.

Visited with a Dutch visitor for dinner. Upstairs for bar and lower level (road level) for restaurant. Rooms are also there. The menu is exhaustive, but items are classified on making time, readily available, takes 20 minutes, takes more time etc. Except fish, all others were in ready category. Good food, quantities (portions) are large and sharable (Biriyani, Fried rice, Noodles), fried items or dry starters are spicy. Min serving time from order is 15 minutes. Courteous service. Both restaurant and bar floors have an excellent panoramic view of tea estates, forests, blue hills, road traffic, misty roads and mountain peaks. Good experience.

Waste water for hot water its fine…we had to waste 40+ buckets to manage hot water for 4 days with repeated calling of reception morning evening night…1/10 No view no window from bottom floor, any lower rates are put there, and no ventilation in rest room Room 4/10 Service was average, seems no one was trained and clue less on service 3/10 Food was ok, but when more people come forget orders 5/10.. Over all average experience no one seems to care..