I know it is been a long time, Curry House at Anna Nagar Chennai, is nice cozy place to be with your family. We tried the north Indian type dishes Butter Naan, Kadai Chicken and for starters Sweet Corn veg soup, Chicken Andhra Kabab.
Chicken Andhra Kabab is really hot and spicy, compliment it lot of water. The portion of Kadai Chicken was the just right for 3 sets of butter Naans.
What I liked about this place is, it has lots of space for kids to move around, does make kids to suffocate, so they are more relaxed. At least my younger son a year a half was more cool and composed. The sofa arrangement is really good you can put your kids to sleep, if needed. There is a separate room for kids to hang around you can browse the photos. They place is vandalized artistically by lovable kids.
The place is clean, ample lighting, service is good and the food taste good and Yeah, The food is moderately expensive.
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars.
Budget: 250/ Person approximately
tags: Curry House, Anna Nagar, Chennai, Restaurant, Photography, review
Thalassery Restaurant is a new entrant for Kerala type foods, houses the taste of Malabar. Thalassery can be located from the front entrance of Anna Tower, the next road to Connexions, which leads to the arch of the Anna Tower close to Hill Greens Restaurant, The restaurant can be found on the first floor on that same lane.
It is a small joint, Currently working on interiors and even on pricing and quantity of food. The place is neat, decently spacious, clean, service is good, Currently improving on all possible directions.
The starter was Chicken 65 ( with bone) the main course ordered was Parotta, Talasery special biriyani and gravy was Naadan Chicken curry.
Naadan Chicken curry has the same preparation of Egg curry except the difference is Chicken, the number of chicken pieces are quite less. It tastes good, the portion can be served for 4 parottas max.
The Chicken 65 is bad experience, I had been to a small road side hotel at Mallapuram once, and ordered for a half portion of Chicken 65 when served it was a full bowl with lots of pieces. At least 4 people will be happy. Considering the kerala tradition they are following it is big disappointment for me, The taste was OK, just that few tissues where gripping on the bones, out of 6 or 7 pieces served most pieces were mere bones. The price is quite high for the quantity served. Don’t try chicken 65 over here.
Parotta the usual ones as you can find on any good restaurant, and now to the Thalasery Special biriyani, what we ordered was little special it doesn’t have chicken or mutton pieces. Just plain Biriyani aka Kushka. The taste was good with variety of spices, still medium spicy. We all loved it.
3 stars of out of five.
Service courteous
Food quantity too less, pricey
Price: 150/Head approximately.
((tag: Restaurant, Chennai, India, Kerala, Kerala food, Photography, Photoblog, AnnaNagar))
Ummm…n Yummy That is how the whole family treated itself that evening.
The pastries live to the price, they just roll all over your mouth, didn’t want to swallow them at first. That is how I felt, When I was at Wings Cake shop of Taj, this place is next best pastries shop to La Boulangerie
Ambiance is good, spacious, neat, comfortable, service is self service which I hate for the price I pay and that too for a cake.
Rating 3 stars out of five stars
Price: 50/ head just for cake.
tag: Pastries, cake, Chennai, Anna Nagar, India, Wings, Cake shop of Taj
The canton is small and nice Chinese restaurant at Nungambakkam, just next to Ganpath and it is on the basement. I had been to this place last Sunday, but didn’t really enjoy my lunch. I ordered for Spicy Jade Veg soup, Dragon Chicken as a starter and for the main course West Lake Spicy Chicken and Veg Fried rice. Guess What?
The base preparation for Dragon Chicken and West Lake spicy Chicken was the same, stuffed in Maida, I guess it is common preparation, when guest order for any chicken item, the pull out few pieces and prepare it dry or gravy. The gravy item was little slimy, but didn’t taste bad. The dragon chicken was crispy some pieces were not properly cooked. I did feel the same at the Cascade, it was delicious.
This time I was bit cautious when ordering fried rice, I really took care in understanding the amount be served. Yeah, it serves 2 people.
In spite of the place been small there is no comfort from the sofa and the chairs, Stern sofa which are erect at 90 degrees and it needs proper cleaning too. Ambiance is OK, properly lit apart from the Chinese dragon framed photos these is no Chinese from this place.
Service is good, you get proper answer on the quantity being served, the waiters are humble enough to extend their service when your plates are getting empty, they serve with a good smile.
I have tried the dragon chicken at these places too Shanshi @ AnnaNagar, Kim Ling @ AnnaNagar, The Cascade @ AnnaNagar and The Wangs @ AnnaNagar and @ Velachery. If it has to be dragon chicken it has either has to be The Cascade or The Wangs Kitchen @ Velachery.
Rating: 3 stars out of 5
Price: 250 / Head approximately
Yet to rate few other Chinese restaurants in Chennai, Keep an eye on this space. Please feel free share your comments or critics
tag: Chinese Restaurant, Restaurant, Chennai, India, Photography, Photoblog, The Canton
It was close 12:30 PM yesterday afternoon and in a moment there was once shade lighter in what ever you started seeing. The Eclipse had just started, some of my friends took an DSLR to mobile phones, to shoot the Eclipse, some even had a nice sheet of paper with just a pin hole and watching.
My friends and yours truly had just finished the lunch, it was our usual joint where we use to take rest with little chat. We noticed some thing strange in the light and the atmosphere, ended up watching the strange shadows from the Neem tree.
Just for fun.
((tag: Eclipse, Sun, Chennai, India, Shadow))
If it has to be Chinese food @ AnnaNagar you can count on "The Cascade" too, I will be posting on couple of Chinese restaurants review in the coming days.
Remember that crowded Saravana Bhavan at the 2nd Avenue, the road which leads to Pazumudir Cholai, just opposite you will find Arun Ice cream parlour at the top is our favourite Chinese Restaurant The Cascade.
Bit pricey at the same time you get good quality and quanity food. I was bit taken away when I ordered for fried rice and Malaysian Noodles, We were just four of us out of which one was toddler who is just a year and above. Just the fried rice was actually more than enough to serve 4 people, I ended up carrying the rest of the food to home.
Very important: So when you order, please ask them about the quantity they serve. They just take orders.
Ambience is really good, neat, spacious and good service, but you need a fat wallet. You can notice that I had very little trouble with my younger son. If the place is cramped, I wouldn’t have taken few Photos of the Restaurant. The sofa was cosy and comfortable, neat and odour less, that entertained him a lot.
My rating would be 4 stars out of 5.
300 INR/ Person average
As I said earlier look out for this blog, for more reviews on Chinese Restuarant at AnnaNagar, Chennai.
((tag: Photography, AnnaNagar, Chennai, India, Chinese, Chinese Restaurant))
These photos where taken in different location in Chennai. These are some of landscape of Chennai which I came across been converted to Tilt shift photography. All effects have been done through post processing AKA Photoshop.
I have been hearing about the water problem in Chennai for long time, almost for the past 2 decades, very recently I stumbled upon a video on the subject of water conservation in Rajasthan. Please do take a look at the two images, the lids of the under water table has been open by these people to wash their clothes which is almost fit for drinking. These people are really unaware about the situation of what is happening in Chennai.
I am sure these people don’t have water connection at their residence, So I wouldn’t stop them from using this water, but at the same time I don’t want them to contaminate the drinking water.
I seriously feel that Chennai people lack respect for water, and fall a prey during the summer days. Check out the video on how water is treated with respect and how people in Rajasthan preserve water even while they get the lowest rainfall in our Country India.
I am sure politicians also play a major role for the current state in TamilNadu.
Speaking of which TamilNadu needs to learn, respect and to conserve water.
This lamp is slightly fascinating one, truly electrifying. The lights dance to music on the car stereo. Yes, this one is must have accessories for your car.
Wishing you all a electrifying Happy New year 2010.
