Guru Indian Restaurant is celebrating 9 wonderful years here in Clermont. Guru offers you a unique local experience in top-quality gourmet Indian dining. Guru Restaurant was founded by Master Chef Uday Kadam in Clermont as he felt it was the very best community in Central Florida for a fine quality destination Indian food emporium. Kadam offers an authentic gourmet restaurant, specializing in Northern Indian foods.
Started in September 2014, Kadam sincerely credits his many loyal clients. While he strives to best serve the local community; they have also had many local and regional celebrities, athletes and politicians as regular guests. Uday notes, “Many of our long-term guests claim they tried Indian cuisine here for their very first time and loved it … so they keep coming back!”
Guru Indian Restaurant proudly serves generous portions of fine quality fresh foods and ingredients available. Every Guru Indian Restaurant dine-in experience starts with a complimentary dish of Pappadam chips, served with onion and sweet mango chutney as a welcoming gift. Their unique appetizers as well as their cooked chicken, beef, lamb, seafood, vegetable and Biryani dishes are custom-cooked to perfection and to your taste. Each moderately priced dish is created any way you want from mild or normal, to medium or hot and spicy. They offer an assortment of different entrees; 17 of which are vegetable delights and 8 of which many are created as vegan dishes. Their 6 Biryani specialties are tender meat and basmati rice combinations made from Hyderabadi. They offer numerous side orders like Sweet Mango Chutney, Raita and Pappdam. For dessert, they offer homemade mango and pistachio ice creams, Rice Pudding, Gulab Jamun and Ras Malai. cold beer and a variety of wines are available to enhance any meal. All 10 varieties of naan breads are cooked fresh in clay ovens.
Guru Indian Restaurant was awarded ‘Best Indian Restaurant’ by the 2023 Orlando Sentinel People’s Choice Awards. Clermont’s Guru Indian Restaurant has proudly been awarded dozens of fine dining awards and prestigious honors from Style Magazine, the Orlando Sentinel, The Tampa Tribune, the South Lake Chamber of Commerce ‘Local Taste Awards’ and others for being ‘The Best Indian Restaurant in Central Florida.” Other recent honors include the ‘Best Entrée’ at the Taste of South Lake Festival and ‘Best Lunch Spot’ for 2023 by the South Lake Chamber of Commerce. Guru has been named one of the very Top Restaurants out of over 8000 eateries in Central Florida over the past 6 years by nationally respected Trip Advisor.
Uday Kadam is proudly from a small village 300 miles south of Mumbai, India. His father was a teacher; Kadam’s first ‘Guru.’ While Kadam was in college in Bombay, he worked at the famous Taj Mahal Hotel. He studied and worked under the talents of many respected gurus, who taught and encouraged him in what would become his life’s most desired profession. He soon thereafter started his professional career as a manager for Marriott Hotels in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt before coming to work in the United States in 1982. He has 30 years of experience in the professional restaurant business here in the Orlando area. Here, he was a food and beverage manager working at the Disney Polynesian. Kadam notes, “The word Guru means ‘Master’ and ‘A Sharing Teacher.’ Growing up, I was fortunate to work for and learn from the best of the best at Marriott and Disney!”
Guru’s Indian Restaurant in Clermont is a beautifully adorned environment with artwork, fresh flowers, artwork and aromatic scents. With plenty of additional outdoor seating, they have a staff ready to shower you with fabulous foods, tasty drinks, and personalized service. This is the perfect place to for meetings, girl’s night out, to celebrate date nights and for birthdays, anniversaries or any special event. They are now open from 11:30 AM 7 days a week for lunches and dinners with Monday through Saturday hours until 10 PM and until 7 PM on Sundays. Walk-ins and reservations are always welcome. They offer take-out, delivery and catering services. Located at 2400 US Highway 27, Suite 101 in Clermont, FL 34711. Call 352-241-9884 and visit: www.GuruRestaurantCatering.com. Follow them on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/gururestaurantclermont.
