Top end
Mainland China
Yellow chilly iscon mall, little italy platinum plaza, athwa lines, taste of india ring road are likely to fall under this category.
Kandeel Revolving Restaurant
(http://www.texpalazzohote...) it is famously known, is located right in the heart of the textile market area and gives a spectacular view of the city any part of the day. they have a fixed buffet system and cater to both vegetarian and non-vegetarian dishes.
Sugar n' Spice at Bhattar near Raj Empire and at Parle Point.
Piplod, a happening place, has joints like Happineess, Crazy Bite offers a wide range of cuisine including Italian and Mexican.
Besides many Multiplexes like Valentine, City Plus, Raj Empire have various different food joints.
Some special and unique dishes of Surat include Locho, Surti Undhiyu, Rasawala Khaman, Cold coco and Surti Ghari. Many of the popular types of food of the state of Gujarat originated in this region. Contrary to popular belief, Surti cuisine is not as sweet as the stereotypical Gujarati food, but rather quite on the spicier side.
Come winter and Suratis will emerge at river Tapi's banks to eat Ponk. Ponk is a Roasted Millet variety that is available only in this part of the world.
Surat is also well known for its celebrations of Chandi Padvo usually which usually comes around October. This is the biggest full moon day of the Hindu calendar year. On this day, Surtis buy almost 100 tons of Ghari and other Surati delicacies, then head to Dumas where they have dinner/late night snack under full moon.
There is a popular adage in India which translated means if Kasi is a stairway to heaven, Surat is the place for food. The variety of cuisines is quite large, varying from the local Gujarati Thalis to South Indian food. There are a lot of nice eateries like Indian Curry, Klassic,Deewan-e-Khaas which will give you the flavour of a traditional indian food and for South Indians Mysore Cafe, Vishnu's,and the Mallu Restaurant provide a good eat-out. The road side stalls laari in local parlance provide some really tasty and inexpensive food. You can find people parking luxury cars and eating in these laaris.
Budget
You can fill your stomach on almost any budget in Surat.
You can take food in the laaris if less on budget. There are Laaris for Dhosa, Sandwich, Pizza, Wada-Pav, Pav-Bhaji, Pani-Puri, etc throughout the city. You can easily find one at any corners of the city.
Though the non veg variety is less but the Inda/Beda egg laris spread all across the city are very famous. Some popular names are bhai-bhainanpura, raju adajan, amthabhai piplod, ganesh moti talkies, a few in Zampa Bazaar and Rander area are also good.
talking bout nonveg food. for laari stuff zampa bazaar, rander, chowk are eally good. U can try the Nan-chaaps at zampa bazaar, seekh paratha at chowk. and irani paratha/egg roti stuffed with keema at rander especially during the month of Ramazan.n by the way if u havent tried early morning baara12 handis pots breakfast at zampa bazaar then u dont know what a really heavy breakfast is. though hygienic is not the word you can use. but its really wonderful and follow it up with sweet malpua.hmmmm
Also the normal tandoori chicken at all of these places is good. And in ramazan one can try the machchi fish masal chicken at rander, the silver chickenactually its green masala chicken but wrapped in silver foil. Also the Khausakind of noodle and soup is good.
On Sunday morning one can find youngsters and families alike crowding the dumas area for various kinds of bhajiyas. Try tomato,rataalu,mirch for some variety.
Also famous is the kulfi and hand made ice creams of surat. some very different kind of flovours like mirchchilly,coriander,ginger,etc can be founf at Janta icecream outlets. Also famous is the kishore ice cream.
If u wanna try goood hand made kulfi/icecream go to Badshah,Tajmahal,king,hajoori at zampa bazaar.
Also there are scores of laris outside the SV-NITSVR college for non veg stuff.
Good nonveg restaurants are few like Sugar n Spicering road, Center Courtathwa lines, Kandil, Savera, etc.VS dosa and sai dosa are most popular for dosa and south indian dishes.
Midrange
Surat has very good food and restaurant chains. It includes all major brands. Pizza Hut, McDonald's, Subway etc. Besides Chinese Room Nanpura and Sugar n Spice Ring Road offer good food at a decent cost.FOR GUJARATI FOOD: one may visit SASUMA, SWASTIK, KANSAR, SABRUS, Sab Food Express AND MANY MORE.RAJASTHANI FOOD WITH FOOD PLACES: 1) CHOWKITHANI 2) bHATWARI, THESE TWO ARE BEST MODERN TRADITIONAL RESTAURANTS IN SURAT PROVIDES JAYPURI AND GUJARATI FOOD ALONG WITH PUNJABI FOOD. PEOPLE MAY VISIT WITH FAMILIES AND CHILDREN AS WELL AS WITH FRIENDS TO CELEBRATE PARTY.