{"id":173111,"date":"2026-04-22T19:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/173111\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T19:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:17:09","slug":"reading-town-centre-welcomes-indian-street-food-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/173111\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading town centre welcomes Indian Street Food truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  GARAM-Indian Street Food, founded by Avinash Dantuluri, 30, is now operating in front of Town Hall Square in Reading and offers a tasty selection of rolls, rice bowls and meal deals.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>GARAM-Indian Street Food truck in Town Hall Square (Image: Katie Worrell)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.readingchronicle.co.uk\/news\/26043422.new-sports-bar-open-site-closed-australian-chain\/?ref=ed_latest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New sports bar to open at site of closed Australian chain<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Dantuluri said: &#8220;We\u2019ve had a really nice response from the community so far.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;It\u2019s been great seeing regulars come back, and we\u2019ve also had some lovely reviews on Google.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The food truck is inspired by the busy streets of India, and aims to bring some of that spice, sound and soul to the UK.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Dantuluri said: &#8220;I come from a design background, but food has always been a big part of my life.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  More:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.readingchronicle.co.uk\/news\/26043002.update-waitrose-woodley-forced-temporarily-close\/?ref=ed_latest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Update after Waitrose, Woodley, forced to temporarily close<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Starting GARAM was about building something of my own and bringing authentic Indian street food into a quick, grab-and-go format here.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Garam means hot in Hindi, and that\u2019s exactly what we aim to serve.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Originally based in Coley Park, Mr Dantuluri relocated the business to the town centre in late summer 2025.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  GARAM is open from 12.30pm to 9pm, Monday to Saturday, with menu items priced between \u00a36.95 and \u00a310.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GARAM-Indian Street Food, founded by Avinash Dantuluri, 30, is now operating in front of Town Hall Square in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-173111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}