Driver's Paratha Combo
Two aloo parathas, white butter, dahi, achaar and a kadak chai. Served 6–10 AM to anyone who walks in — trucker, cyclist or sleepy family.
Murthal · NH-44 · Since 1978
Forty-seven years at kilometre 47. Iron-tawa parathas, dal makhani that has been on the coals since dawn, lassi in a steel glass — for truckers at six in the morning and families at midnight.
Two aloo parathas, white butter, dahi, achaar and a kadak chai. Served 6–10 AM to anyone who walks in — trucker, cyclist or sleepy family.
Dal makhani, kadhai paneer, butter chicken, rajma, 12 tandoori rotis, jeera rice, raita and gulab jamun. Feeds four on a road trip.
Order from this page instead of an app and we knock 10% off. Say the code on WhatsApp and we adjust it on confirmation.
Beyond the plate
Set meals for the way people actually eat at a dhaba — at dawn before a long drive, on a charpai after dark, or packed for the next 200 km.

A charpai in the back courtyard with a low table, lanterns and a set dhaba dinner — dal makhani, kadhai paneer or butter chicken, tandoori rotis, lassi and gajar halwa. Blankets in winter.

Two aloo parathas, a paneer paratha, white butter, dahi, achaar, a bowl of chole and a kulhad of kadak chai. The plate that has fed the Delhi–Amritsar route for forty years.

A steel thali of nine katoris — saag or dal, two sabzis, chole, raita, rice, unlimited rotis and parathas, kheer and a lassi. Kids under 8 eat free with a paying adult.

A sealed box for the next 200 km — four parathas, dry aloo gobi, pindi chole, achaar, two laddoos and four bottles of chaach. Ordered on WhatsApp, ready when your car pulls in.
Our story
In 1978 Sardar Gurbachan Singh set up a charpai, an iron tawa and a clay tandoor at kilometre 47 of the Grand Trunk Road, and started feeding the drivers who stopped for the night. Parathas at dawn, dal on the coals all day, no menu — you ate what was hot.
His son Balwinder still lights the tandoor at five every morning. The tawa is the same one. There is a menu now, a courtyard of charpais, parking for sixty trucks and a WhatsApp number — but the dal is still the dal, and the butter is still churned in the back.
Timings & getting here
Daily · 6:00 AM – 11:30 PM · chai counter till 1:00 AM
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Kitchen last order 11 PM. The chai-and-paratha counter stays open till 1 AM for highway traffic — walk in any time. No holidays, no closed days.
Within 8 km — Murthal, Sonipat city, Kundli, Rai, Bahalgarh and the NH-44 service roads. Highway boxes are packed for pickup in 15 minutes.
Sixty truck and bus bays behind the courtyard, car parking in front. Clean washrooms, a dhaba shower for drivers, and a small gurdwara-style prayer room.
Charpais and family cabins are first-come after 9 PM unless reserved. Wheelchair ramp at the front; high chairs on request.
Why drivers stop here
Six in the morning to one at night, every day of the year. Trucks don't take holidays and neither does the tandoor.
Wheat from Sonipat mandis, sarson from Ganaur fields, milk from Murthal dairies. Butter churned in the back every morning.
Sealed highway boxes, chaach in bottles, parathas that stay soft for six hours. Order ahead and pull in.
Ordering here means no 25% commission, so the paratha stays ₹149 and the butter stays white.
The tawa crew

Lights the tandoor at 5 AM as his father did. Knows every regular driver by truck number.

Rolls 1,800 parathas on a Sunday. The white butter recipe is hers and she is not sharing it.

Twenty-two years on the dal makhani and mutton curry. Stirs with a ladle as tall as he is.

Runs the WhatsApp counter and the delivery bikes. Will find your car in a parking of sixty trucks.
From the road
I have driven Delhi–Ludhiana for eleven years and this is where I stop. Parathas at 5:30 AM, hot dal, no waiting, parking is easy. The lassi in the steel glass is the whole reason.

We booked two charpais for my father's 70th. Lanterns, blankets, unlimited rotis and the gajar halwa came hot from the kadhai. The kids fell asleep on the charpai. Perfect.

Sent our order on WhatsApp from Panipat, pulled in 25 minutes later and the highway box was waiting at the counter. Parathas were still soft at Chandigarh.







Reservations
Tell us when and how many; we confirm on WhatsApp. Walk-ins are always welcome — but Sunday lunch and Saturday charpais fill up early.