Monday, December 15, 2008

Lovely Evening Snack Places of Chennai


  • I thought I will list out some of the good restaurents of Chennai which serve sumptuous snack / tiffen items for the evening… Evening means between 4pm to 7pm to me J
Try it out…. I recently visited these places so I can say the list is good – I think these items are best prepared in the following places than others !!!
  • New Woodlands, Cathedral Road – Mangalore Bonda, Uppuma
  • Gangotri, Cathedral Road – North Indian snack items, sweets
  • Sri Krishna Sweets, Pondy Bazaar – Masala Boli, Filter Coffee
  • Hotel Saravana Bhavan, Peters Road – Mini Tiffen, Rava Kesari, Medu Vadai, Raw banana Chips and Filter Coffee with more sugar
  • Sangeetha Hotel, Sterling Road – Vendhaya Dosai, Vada Kari, Filter Coffee
  • Raja Bhavan, Sterling Road – Dosa, Idly
  • Murugan Idly Kadai, GN Chetty Road – Dosa, Idly, Oothappam
  • Mansukh, T. Nagar – North Indian snack items
  • Hotel Saravana Bhavan, Mylapore – Adai Avial, Kaara Dosa, Rava Idly, Raw banana Chips & Filter Coffee
  • Adyar Anandha Bhavan, Adyar – Adai Avial, Kaara Kozhakattai, Filter Coffee
  • Palmgrove, Nungambakkam – Assorted Bajji, dosa varieties
  • Shree Mithai, Chetpet & Spencers – North Indian snack items with Badam Milk
  • MG Road, Nungambakkam – Near Citibank ATM – Paani Puri (road side)
  • Sangeetha Hotel, R A Puram – Dosa items, puri, Filter Coffee

  • Carnival - Cake Shop, C P Ramasamy Road – Sandwiches
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  • Beeda @ Calcutta paan shop – just before Ganpat hotel, Nungambakkam
Update Jan 2, 2010

  • Noodles Samosa at hotel saravana bhavan (Mylapore, Venkatnarayan road)
  • Hotel Sudha, Egmore - Old udipi hotel - all south indian breakfast items are very very good

14 comments:

  1. Kesari is not introduced by me.. It is not Ravi Kesari...It is Rava Kesari

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  2. Kesari is not introduced by me.. It is not Ravi Kesari...It is Rava Kesari

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  3. Am partial to chat parota and chikku shake from Nandinees at T Nagar Bus stand as well :) Well! used to about a decade back.

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  4. Welcome Laksh.... I hate venturing into usman road side. So no reaction from my side for your nandinees !

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  5. You must check this out! quite old bu interesting!

    http://kadapparai.blogspot.com/2006/11/blog-post.html

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  6. Hi Anonymous ! That was a good post. Ethanai sappattu ramargal indha ulagathile !

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  7. array wah i really wish that u ought to organize visits to all these places for people who come to chennai

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  8. Hi Vijay Ganesh,
    Lovely post on quick snack items and the restaurants which serve them best. We did try the masala boli in Krishnasweets Rk Salai. Yummy.. I loved the paruppu boli as well..
    Will try it out most probably this vacation..
    Liked your site. Bookmarked.
    Ananya Mahadevan
    Abudhabi.

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  9. Welcome Ananya, Thanx for the patronage.

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  10. update input from @shivakumar .try aappam and kadalai curry from "kalavara" velachery bypass road, parotta and pannerbutter masala,veg briyani tastes good too.

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  11. Point noted,my hunt begins :)

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  12. Hi i am kavin, its my first occasion to commenting anyplace, when i read this piece of writing i thought i could
    also create comment due to this brilliant paragraph.

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  13. Appreciate the recommendation. Will try it out.

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