T.K.'s Oriental Grill, Hyatt Regency: Delhi's Original Teppanyaki Table Is Still the Best One

Address: Ground Floor, Hyatt Regency Delhi, Ring Road, Bhikaji Cama Place, New Delhi 110066

Timing: Lunch 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Dinner 7:00 PM – 11:30 PM (All Days)

Cuisine: Japanese, Thai, Indonesian, Oriental

Average Cost: ₹5,500 approx for two

There are restaurants you try. And then there are restaurants you return to for thirty years. T.K.'s Oriental Grill at Hyatt Regency Delhi is firmly in the second category. It opened in 1995 — which means it has been doing teppanyaki in this city since before most of the people currently obsessing over Japanese food on Instagram were born. It is widely recognised as one of the first teppanyaki kitchen-style dining venues in Delhi, and certainly one of the oldest to serve authentic Far Eastern cuisine. In a city where restaurant lifespans can be measured in months, thirty years is not just impressive — it is a statement.

First, Let's Talk About What Teppanyaki Actually Is

If you have never done it, you need to know what you are walking into and why it is worth it.

Teppanyaki is a Japanese style of cooking on a large, flat iron griddle heated to high temperature. At T.K.'s, you sit around this hot plate and the chef cooks in front of you. From scratch. Your fish, your lamb, your prawns, your vegetables all of it lands on that iron surface and is cooked, cut, sauced, and plated while you watch.

T.K.'s stands for Teppanyaki Kitchen and the restaurant features seven hot grills. There is a separate dessert bar counter. The whole room has the energy of a kitchen and the elegance of a fine dining restaurant at the same time which is a genuinely difficult balance to strike, and T.K.'s has been striking it for three decades.

The Ambience: Part Theatre, Part Restaurant, Entirely Enjoyable

Walking into T.K.'s feels different from most restaurants in this city. You can choose to sit at the teppanyaki counter, directly in front of the chef and the heat, or at a regular table if you prefer a slightly more conventional dining arrangement.

Our advice: sit at the counter. Every single time. The experience of watching a skilled chef work a teppan in real time — is genuinely entertaining and genuinely educational. You do not just eat here. You watch, you smell, you understand the food in a way that a covered plate arriving from a kitchen never quite allows.

The Hyatt Regency itself lends this restaurant the kind of calm authority that only a well-run five-star hotel can provide. The service is unhurried, the setting is polished, and the whole experience has a sense of occasion to it — even on a weekday lunch.

The Food: Know What to Order

• Flambéed Imported Lamb Chops with Sliced Onion, Bean Sprouts, and Chilli Oyster Sauce: the dish that defines the T.K.'s experience. Lamb that is soft, juicy, and just right, with charred fat at the edges that bursts into flavour on the first bite. This is the dish you come for.
• Cochin Snapper Fillet Wrapped in Banana Leaf with Coriander, Chilli, and Kaffir Lime: one of those preparations that looks simple and turns out to be quietly exceptional. Rate this as one of T.K.'s most honest dishes.
• Prawns in Yellow Curry and Black Bean Chicken are longstanding favourites for good reason. The yellow curry is aromatic and balanced, not overpowering. 
• Sushi: T.K.'s also has a sushi counter. Fresh and properly handled. If raw fish is your preference over the grill, T.K.'s handles that too.
• Fish Balls and Lamb Black Pepper: A must-try dishes

The Honest Bit

 T.K.'s is the kind of place you go when the occasion deserves it. It is not a rushed meal. It is not a quick fix. It is the full experience, and the pricing reflects exactly that.

On very busy evenings, service can slow, the chef at the teppan may not run through the order confirmation as carefully as guests expect, and portion sizes particularly the prawns have occasionally disappointed. For a restaurant at this price point, these are fair observations and ones the kitchen should continue to address.

But here is the thing: people who have been going to T.K.'s for ten, twelve, fifteen years keep going back. 

The Verdict

T.K.'s Oriental Grill is not just a restaurant. It is a piece of South Delhi's dining history — one of the institutions that taught this city what Far Eastern food could actually taste like, what a live kitchen could feel like, what it means to sit around a fire and eat something cooked specifically for you by someone who knows what they are doing.

It has outlasted trends, outlasted dozens of flashier competitors, and outlasted the short attention spans of a city that is always chasing the next new thing. The reason is simple: the teppanyaki is spectacular, the lamb chops are extraordinary, the sushi is fresh, and the chefs are on most evenings genuinely wonderful company.

Go for the lamb. Stay for the snapper. Let the chef surprise you. And if you have never done teppanyaki before, T.K.'s is exactly the right place to start.

South Delhi approved — since 1995, and then some.