Vimala's Curryblossom Cafe

431 W Franklin St #415, Chapel Hill
(919) 929-3833

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Customers' Favorites

Vegetable Curry and Rice
Lamb or Chicken Biryani
Tandoori Chicken Meal
Lunch Chicken Curry 9
Mysore Masala Dosa
Kerala Beef Curry
Lavender Lemonade
Vegetable Samosas
Vegetable Samosa
Cardamom Brownie

Menu

Hot Ready-to-Eat Take Out
Tandoori Chicken Meal
Boneless grilled chicken marinated in yogurt and spices. Served with rice, dal, salad, raita, and pickle.
Dosa
Gluten-free fermented crispy crepe served with chutneys and sambar. Gluten free.
Veggie Samosa
Savory pastries filled with potatoes and peas.
Uttapam
Gluten-free thick pancake, served with chutneys and sambar. Gluten free.
Samosa Chole Chaat
Two samosas in chickpea stew, topped with chutneys, cilantro, and yogurt.
Vegetable Curry Meal
Ivy gourd and chickpeas. Served with rice, dal, goan salad, raita, and pickle.
Appam
A vegan, gluten free, rice, and coconut milk pancake. Served alone or with curries.
Chole Meal
Chickpea stew. Served with rice, dal, raita, goan cabbage salad, and spicy pickle.
Crispy Okra

Ready-To-Heat Vegetarian Curries
Saag Paneer
Creamed spinach with farmer-cheese cubes. Curries are cooked, chilled, and ready for you to heat at home.
Chole
North Indian chickpea stew. Curries are cooked, chilled, and ready for you to heat at home.
Dal
Red lentil stew with garlic and cumin. Curries are cooked, chilled, and ready for you to heat at home.
Sambar
An opulent mixed vegetable stew. Curries are cooked, chilled, and ready for you to heat at home.

Ready-To-Heat Meat Curries
Kerala Beef
Local and grass fed beef beef sautéed in fennel, coconut, and black pepper. Curries are cooked, chilled, and ready for you to heat at home.

Ready-to-Heat Breads
Naan
North Carolina bread flour flatbread, made with yeast and yogurt. Breads and batters are ready to be reheated in an oven or a hot pan.
Chappati
Whole wheat flat bread.
Dosa Batter by the Quart
South Indian smooth rice-and-lentil batter to make your own dosas and uttapams (enough to pour 6-12 small uttapams or dosas). Comes complete with chutneys (coconut and gunpowder), sambar and cooking instructions.

Condiments & Sides
Rice
Basmati rice with turmeric.
Raita
Cucumber yogurt sauce.
Masala Peanuts
Spiced peanuts with Himalayan pink salt.
Goan Pink Salad
Vegan slaw with red and green cabbage and carrots.

Desserts
Kaju Katri
Diamond shaped cashew and sugar marzipan.
Motichoor Laddu
Soft chickpea flour pearls, blended with cardamom, nutmeg, sugar syrup, and shaped into balls.
Cardamom Brownie
Regular or gluten free.
Walnut-Date Brownie

Drinks
Mango Lassi
Prepared with house-made yogurt from local milk.
Iced Hibiscus Tea
Made with hibiscus blossoms. Dairy

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Recent Reviews

We went to Vimala's Curryblossom Cafe in Chapel hill today. I've been coming here for over 20 years. They struggle in the summer with no students so please order some takeout or dine in. While we waiting they chatted with my daughter, gave her a mango lassi and then when we were leaving, Vimala came up with some desserts too. These people love their community and people so much and I'm happy to support their mission! Also everything pictured is gluten free which...
June 2025
This is out third or fourth time in Vimala's but we were very disappointed at Vimala's .We had the veg thali and the Pawn curry thali .
The Veg thali had some squash in a broth with half cooked daal with no flavor .It seems the chef just boiled the daal and squash in added some garam masala .
Same with the prawn curry .No flavor no spices ..Same base curry .Not worth ordering the thali .
Do not recommend any thali as it seem to be missing any...
March 2025
Awesome place. Ambience is top notch. Service is good. Food is good too but a little on the sweeter side. I wish I had known a little more about banana fritters which are very sweet. Overall good place for a lunch or early dinner.

Vegetarian options: Vegetarian options are available.

Parking: Parking is on Franklin street or nearby places.

Kid-friendliness: Kid friendly for sure.
March 2025

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Vimala's Curryblossom Cafe

431 W Franklin St #415, Chapel Hill, NC 27516
(919) 929-3833