Pure veg. Authentic taste. Perfectly managed. From 50-guest satsangs to 500-pax baraat dinners, Yatra Saathi cooks the kind of food your naani would approve of — and serves it like a five-star.
"स्वाद भी उत्तम · सेवा भी उत्तम — यात्रा साथी"
Trained at the Taj Group as a tandoor commis in 1998, Rakesh-ji spent two years cooking the daily 1,500-plate bhandara at a temple-trust kitchen in Banaras before founding Yatra Saathi in 2009. The discipline of feeding hungry pilgrims for free — the same dal, the same ghee, every morning — is what produces our famous tehri, kadhi-chawal, and Awadhi paneer pulao today.
"हमारी रसोई में एक भी चीज़ ऐसी नहीं पकती जो माँ-बहन के साथ बैठकर न खाई जा सके। यही हमारा फर्क है।"
Live counters are what turn a buffet into an experience. Our chefs cook hot — chaat, tandoor, dosa, manchurian, jalebi — at counter stations through the event, so the food is always fresh, always 100% pure-veg, and always Insta-worthy.
The dish that built Yatra Saathi.
Cooked dum-style in a sealed brass handi, 35 minutes from raw to plate. The crowd-favourite at every Yatra Saathi event since 2009 — and the recipe Rakesh-ji refused to write down for 14 years.
"एक चम्मच में पनीर, एक में काजू, एक में सिर्फ़ ज़ाफ़रान — और तीनों स्वाद अलग।"
Skip the back-and-forth WhatsApp threads. Build your full event on the Yatra Saathi web-app — menu, counters, guest-count, date, advance — and we lock the kitchen for you the moment you tap "Get Instant Quote".
"शुभ भोजन · मंगलमय आयोजन — आपके फ़ोन से एक tap में।"
Pick a base menu (Awadhi / Banarasi / Marwari / South / Bhog / Corporate). Add live counters, swap dishes, layer regional specialities — the per-plate price updates as you go.
50 to 2,000 guests — slide to your headcount and the quote auto-recalculates with bulk-discount tiers (50–100 / 100–250 / 250–500 / 500+).
Wedding-season dates (Nov–Feb) book out 3 months ahead. The picker shows real-time availability across all our Lucknow / Delhi-NCR / Banaras kitchens.
Browse 200+ past events by venue type (banquet hall · farmhouse · ghar-pe · open-tent · destination), guest count, and menu — see exactly what your event will look like.
One tap → PDF quote in your inbox + WhatsApp, valid for 7 days. Includes per-plate breakdown, taxes, transport, staff, and live-counter add-ons.
Secure your date with a 30% advance via UPI / cards / Razorpay. Balance on event day. NEFT and bank-cheque accepted for ₹2L+ events.
Real events, real venues, real guest counts. Every event is FSSAI-logged with cooking-time + serving-time + leftover-disposal records on file. Audit-ready.
Date · venue · guest count · style (wedding / corporate / festival / ghar-pe). Use the inquiry form below or WhatsApp the team.
You receive a per-plate-detailed PDF quote on email + WhatsApp within one working day. Includes menu options A / B / C, taxes, transport, staff, live-counter add-ons.
For events 100+ guests, free tasting of 4 hero dishes at our Lucknow / Delhi kitchen. Bring family. Tweak menu live with the chef.
UPI · Razorpay · NEFT · cheque accepted. Date is blocked the moment advance hits. Balance on the event day or end-of-month for corporate.
“Hum 480 logo ki baraat dinner karwa rahe the Country Inn Sahibabad mein, peak February wedding-season. Awadhi paneer pulao + live tandoor + chaat counter sab Yatra Saathi ne sambhala. Mehmaano ne 3 baar plate refill ki — ek auntyji ne to chef se recipe maangi! Pure-veg hone ke baad bhi har dish itni rich aur swaadisht thi ki kisi ko meat ki kami nahi lagi. Rakesh-ji aur unki team ki discipline dekh ke samajh aaya 850+ events ka matlab.”
“हमारी कंपनी का 180-pax offsite Welcomhotel Dwarka में था। GST-compliant invoicing, Hindi-MC ke saath dosa-live counter, sabh time pe ready. Veg-buffet ka taste itna achha tha ki HR team ne next quarter offsite bhi inhi se book kar diya. Corporate-grade discipline + ghar-jaisa khana — yeh combination dekhna mushkil hai.”
“Janmashtami pe Vrindavan ke Krishna Mandir ka 1,200-plate bhog Yatra Saathi ne pakaaya. Suddh ghee, satvik, no onion / no garlic — exactly mandir-grade discipline. Halwa-poori se le ke kheer tak, sab itna pavitra aur swaadisht tha ki bhakton ne chef-team ke pair chhuye. 15 saalo se mandir-trust kitchens mein kaam kiya hai inhone — woh sanskaar har thali mein dikhta hai.”
“Mom turned 70 and we wanted a Marwari Sattvik thali — Jain-friendly, no onion / no garlic, ghee-only — for 85 guests at home. Yatra Saathi cooked daal-baati-churma + ker-sangri + ghewar that tasted exactly like the village kitchen mom grew up in. Even the live jalebi counter was hot and crisp till the last guest. Mom cried. We have a new family caterer for life.”
“Our pre-school annual day for 420 (parents + kids) was catered by Yatra Saathi — South Indian + chaat + mocktails. Kids love the dosa-live counter (the chef made Mickey-Mouse dosas for them!). Parents loved the filter-coffee station. Zero leftover-anxiety, zero hygiene-anxiety — every chef wore gloves and cap. We re-booked them for graduation event already.”
The moment your family meets the chef and the date is sealed — that's when the wedding is really starting. We've sat across the table from 850+ families since 2009 and watched this smile every time.
"हर बुकिंग एक नया परिवार है — हम हर थाली ऐसे बनाते हैं जैसे अपने घर के लिए।"
We reply within one working day with a per-plate-detailed PDF. For weddings booking 4+ months out, free menu-tasting at our Lucknow / Delhi kitchen.
Yes. Our FSSAI license is vegetarian-only — that means our kitchen has never cooked meat, eggs, or fish, and is licensed not to. Every ingredient receipt, every supplier, every storage shelf is vegetarian-only. We can show you the FSSAI certificate (license number on every quote PDF).
Yes — separately cooked. For Jain events we eliminate root vegetables (potato / onion / garlic / radish / carrot / ginger). For sattvik / Swaminarayan / Vaishnav events we cook in ghee only and avoid onion / garlic / leeks. Tell us at the quote stage and we do a tasting first.
50 guests for a custom menu (full thali or buffet). Below 50, we do home delivery / hot-box service for the same menu. For Bhog Prasad we go down to 100 plates, for Bhandara as low as 200 plates.
FSSAI-licensed central kitchen · staff in chef-jacket + cap + gloves · cooking-time + serving-time logs per event · hot food kept ≥65 °C in chafing dishes · cold items below 5 °C · leftovers disposed within 4 hrs of last serve. Zero food-poisoning incidents in 850+ events.
Yes — we have catered in Jaipur, Udaipur, Banaras, Pushkar, Rishikesh, and as far as Goa. Travel-and-stay for the chef-team is added to the quote at actuals; usually adds ₹40k–₹1L for a 3-day destination wedding.
For wedding-season dates (Nov–Feb), we recommend 4–6 months. For corporate / festival events, 2–4 weeks. Same-week bookings for ≤100 guests are usually possible — call the team directly.
30% advance to lock the date (UPI / Razorpay / NEFT / cheque) · 50% one week before the event · 20% balance on event day or 7 days post-event for corporate. NEFT, RTGS, UPI, and bank cheques accepted. GST invoice included.
Yes — for events of 100+ guests, free tasting of 4 hero dishes at our Lucknow / Delhi-NCR kitchen. Bring family. The chef walks you through the menu and tweaks live.
Yes — full deployment. 1 waiter per 25 guests for buffet, 1 per 12 for sit-down. Chef-team for live counters. Captains for ≥250-guest events. All in proper uniform — black-bandhgala for premium events, white-shirt for daytime / corporate.
We are catering-only. We work hand-in-hand with decor partners and can recommend trusted ones in Delhi-NCR / Lucknow / Banaras. For full wedding-management, we partner with Ananya Weddings (also on apnisite.in/wedding).
Press / collaborations · banquet-hall partnerships · supplier tie-ups · careers · refer-a-friend · charity / bhandara enquiries.