What is beguiling about Annalakshmi is not the food, but the concept. The food is good—don’t get me wrong. It features a staple selection of Indian classics from basmati rice to vegetable curry that all taste well, albeit a little more sedate than usual.
Annalakshmi operates like a soup kitchen, where anyone can come in, grab a fairly large platter, and fill it up with the stuff you can find in their buffet tables. The price of the meal is relative not to what you get, but to what you can afford or what you think the quality they are worthy of. Much of that possibly owes itself to the fact that many of the employees are volunteers, and that the restaurant is run much like a charity for the Indian community in Perth.
People end up paying anywhere between A$10 and 20, roughly P400-800, pretty decent considering it’s hard to find a A$15 meal in Australia. Some patrons are more generous, and end up paying 30 to 50 per person, the average amount they would probably pay in a mid-level restaurant.
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