SV Andhra Mess

SV Andhra Mess is an Andhra-style restaurant on Chapel Hill Road in Morrisville, in a shopping center along NC 54. It cooks the food of Andhra Pradesh, the spicy southeastern Indian state known for gongura leaf and Guntur chili.

The main event is the unlimited thali, a single plate with more than 15 preparations that the staff keep refilling: rice, dal, sambar, rasam, curries that change with the season, pickle and a sweet. The rest of the menu runs to dum biryanis, Andhra-style chicken and mutton curries, pepper fries and tiffins such as dosa, idli and ragi sangati. Everything is cooked to order.

What to know

• The weekday thali costs $14.99 vegetarian or $18.99 with meat; weekend prices are a few dollars higher.
• Biryani choices include chicken roast dum, mutton roast dum, kingfish fry dum and shrimp dum, $13.99 to $17.99.
• Gongura chicken wings and vanjaram fish fry sit on the fry menu, $14.99 to $18.99.
• The restaurant mentions a membership program on its site but has not published the details.
• Online ordering runs through Toast, and DoorDash and Grubhub both deliver.