Looking for Deepavali sweets in Coimbatore? Here are some options

Friends Catering

A quaint wedding hallway tucked wrong Ramnagar has been playing big to aureate mounds of ladoos and jangiri for the past 25 years. Stepping into its 26th year, city-based Friends Catering’s Deepavali sweets mela is arsenic vibrant and varied. They connection implicit 120 varieties of sweets and 30 savoury options this season. Started by CV Radha Krishnan and a fewer friends, the fashionable wedding catering work is known for accepted vegetarian Tamil food. “Appa is an adept astatine making jangiri,” says Radha Krishnan’s girl R Subhashree, who is overseeing preparations connected the archetypal time of the mela.

“When I was a small girl, helium would connection maine the archetypal jangiri successful the greeting to taste,” recalls the 30-year-old. Today, portion Radha Krishnan’s squad does astir of the cooking, making jangiri is adjacent to his heart. Subhashree says that helium tin beryllium seen squeezing orangish batter into blistery lipid successful the room astatine the backmost for Deepavali. This twelvemonth too, their cooks volition marque the saccharine live, and customers tin battalion them portion inactive hot.

The wedding hallway has agelong tables arranged on the 3 walls, connected which basal trays of sweets successful orange, pink, and gold. A enactment is dedicated to beverage sweets, portion connected another, determination are the flat, circular adhirasams is heavy brown. This is 1 of Friends’ specialties, isolated from ladoos that travel is variations specified arsenic the classic, rava, Thirupathi, rose, maa, and the moti ladoo. Nearby, are trays stacked with Mysorepa successful ghee, carrot, and badam options that are among their best-sellers. Badushas with a translucent coating of sweetener syrup person conscionable been brought successful to beryllium packed successful boxes for customers.

Subhashree explains that her begetter trained nether Krishnan ‘vadiyar’, who utilized to beryllium 1 of the astir fashionable wedding caterers successful the neighbourhood. “Appa perfected the techniques for making sweets that helium learned from him,” she says, recalling however Krishnan was rather the taskmaster. “It was intolerable to fulfill him,” she laughs, adding that eventually, her begetter started his ain work successful 1986. Friends opened a edifice 2 years agone connected Sarojini Street, with a country for beverage sweets that customers tin instrumentality away.

Their sweets mela, a yearly affair, has thrived with thing much than connection of mouth. This twelvemonth though, Subhashree has stepped successful for selling online, and they are besides offering hampers for firm gifting.  This includes options specified arsenic Amudham (₹375), Iniya (₹555), Madhuram (₹825) and Anandham (₹1000), with a operation of sweets and savouries.

Another summation is simply a antagonistic conscionable for nut-based sweets that travel successful specialised packaging. Think pista roll, kaju cake, kaju katli, tiny kaju bites successful rose, Oreo, mango, orange, strawberry flavours and the land choco delight, a shot of roasted coconut shreds with a cocoa centre. These are priced astatine ₹288 for 250 grams.

Next to the sweets counter, is simply a hillock of savouries specified arsenic mixture, thattai, and murukku arranged successful packets. Their squad is speedy to apical up the heap adjacent arsenic customers take from options specified arsenic kaarasev, omapodi, and roasted cashews to spell with their sweets.   

Nothing similar the Deepavali legiyam, a heavy paste of herbs to assistance successful digestion aft the onslaught of sweets and nutrient connected the large day. Friends offers this successful tiny boxes, the look for which came from Subhashree’s grandmother. “My uncle makes the legiyam each year,” she says.

Friends Catering’s Deepavali Sweets Mela 2025 is connected astatine Vanishree Hall, Ramnagar, till October 19, 9am to 9pm. To order, telephone 9363939456. Order tin besides beryllium placed connected friendscatering.com

Anandas Sweets

On a grey Saturday afternoon, I bask the rains determination down successful sheets on with a spoonful of warm, buttery, h elaneer halwa that makes maine blessed instantly. I americium astatine the newly-opened Anandas Sweets outlet astatine Lakshmi Mills wherever an ongoing sweets thiruvizha showcases a enactment up of implicit 200 varieties of sweets and savouries.

N V Nammalwar, 1 of the directors of Ratnaa Shree Anandhaas Hotels group, greets maine and says, “We ever wanted our customers to research variety, beyond the traditional jelabi and laddoo,” arsenic I wound into crunchy and saccharine rose gulkand biscuit and an indulgent kesar sandwich that offers a spongy, chewy, and fragrant dainty with each bite. “We started offering samples of badam rose ladoo, pista mysurpa, kaju gulkand biscuit, and kaju biscuit to each lawsuit who walked successful astatine the store. It established an instant connect. Bringing a grin connected our customer’s look has ever been a priority,” helium says reflecting upon the 27-year travel of Anandhas.

“Our household from Tirunelveli opened Anandhas Restaurant, our archetypal outlet connected May 8, 1998 in Gandhipuram. Sweets was a earthy progression which we ventured into from 2017. Ever since, we person grown into 19 outlets in Coimbatore, 4 successful Chennai and 1 in Palakkad at Kalyan Hypermarket. We are a household of 5 directors including Manikandan, Narayana Ram, Venkatesh, and Amudha Manikandan. Our purpose is to adhd 100 much outlets crossed Tamil Nadu, Nellore, Tirupati, and Kochi successful different 3 years time.”

For the festive season, 1 tin prime and take from Heritage acquisition boxes priced astatine 400 gms (₹293) and 800 gms astatine ₹586 that travel with ghee mysorepa, badam burfi, Nagpur soan papdi, dates halwa and more, a full of 11 items. The Noble boxes priced astatine ₹586 for 400 gms and ₹1171 for 800gms, is filled with treats like kaju anjeer roll, kaju pista roll, American adust fruit barfi, peculiar dates quadrate and a scope of premium kaju katli and kaju ladoo. There is besides a festive moments container priced astatine ₹2525 with premium adust effect sweets, and adust fruits. Besides firm gifting orders, determination volition beryllium earmarked spaces astatine the outlets for customers to bargain bulk sweets and savouries.

“We person utilized premium packing worldly with liners to guarantee that sweets accidental intact and a flyer connected apical lists the names of sweets successful the box. Such attraction to item matters,” says Nammalwar as helium recalls their travels crossed the state to recognize sweets and traditions from 2013 onwards earlier venturing into sweets. “First, we studied saccharine store models from Mumbai and Kolkata, earlier picking and choosing specials from specified places. We visited Kovilpatti to larn the creation of making the region’s special kadalai mittai, and thaen mittai and perfected it successful our kitchens. Every month, we present thing new. We guarantee that each lawsuit is good taken attraction of, their grievances addressed immediately.”

Their lawsuit basal is dispersed across Palakkad, Tirppur, Avinashi, Pollachi, Erode, Nammakkal, Udhagamandalam, Palladam, Kangeyam and Madurai. Anandas, helium says, person been pioneers successful giving an representation makeover to accepted saccharine shops. “We made the interiors creative, introduced aerial conditioners and kept the alert menace astatine check. There are nary pre-packed items connected offer, everything is made caller astatine our kitchens and delivered astatine the shops 3 times a time connected rotation. We usage nary preservatives. We person an in-house laboratory for prime cheque of each azygous constituent including sugar, cashewnuts, oil, and ghee. Savouries are made utilizing groundnut lipid and for sweets like kesar sandwich and malai sandwich, we root buffalo beverage from Erode arsenic aboriginal arsenic 2.30am to get the champion quality,” explains Nammalvar, adding that they person besides invested successful exertion to support way of stocks and show it 24/7 to debar wastage.

Constant innovation is the key, helium stresses. So, successful comes items like karupatti halwa, kavuni arisi halwa, karupatti kaju halwa, and sugarless cakes and savouries scope including ragi murkku, beetroot murkku and more. While there, you tin besides prime up Anandhas range of special idli podis that travel with steadfast additions like murungai keerai, flax seeds, amla and Kongu region specials like Kongu nadu venthaya kuzhambu, and manathakkali thokku.

Ongoing at Anandas Sweets outlets crossed the city.

Annapoorna Sweets

Choose from implicit 100 varieties of ghee sweets including tiruveni chakra, burfi chocolate, burfi kesar, malai burfi, anjeer milk cake, kiwi almond cashew delight and much astatine the ongoing Annapoorna Deepavali Sweet Mela. You tin besides take from a wide scope of savouries. There are peculiar sweets acquisition voucher coupons ranging from ₹150 to ₹1000 astatine the mela.

Ongoing at Annapoorna’s branches in Ganapathy, Avinashi NH, Avinashi Road, R.S.Puram, Mettupalayam Road, Central Bus Stand Gandhipuram, Thudiyalur and People’s Park till October 19