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Restaurants in Chennai

There are scores of eating places and restaurants in Chennai, with dining out being one of the major forms of entertainment for many families in Chennai. You will find an eating place in every street of Chennai, probably. While most of the restaurants in Chennai cater to the South Indian palate, most of these eating joints are actually cozy, little eating places, catering to the middle class bachelor who longs for home food. South Indian cuisine is popular in most parts of the country today, and now gaining popularity abroad as well. This is not only because of its distinct flavors, but also because the style of cooking is considered very healthy as well. Be it hot steaming idlis, crisp dosas made of lentil and rice powder, upma and utthapams, the list is quite endless.

While there is ample scope for vegetarian South Indian food, the non-vegetarian fare in South Indian cuisine too offers much scope to explore the same. No wonder then, there are thousands of restaurants in Chennai, offering range of vegetarian and non-vegetarian South Indian food in Chennai. However, some of the best food in Chennai is available not in upscale hotels, but in the roadside eateries on the Chennai streets. This food is prepared in hygienic conditions and the best part is they are probably the cheapest alternative for eating out in Chennai. Over the past few years, there has been a tremendous increase in the number of restaurants that have opened up in the city. One of the obvious reasons for the same is that people have more money to spend now! But Chennai is not restricted to South Indian cuisine only. There are some great restaurants in Chennai, offering range of other cuisines such as North Indian, Italian, Mughlai, South Asia, Mexican, Chinese and Continental, among others. Some of the best restaurants in Chennai offering excellent specialty cuisines include Pathankot Punjabi Restaurant, Marrybrown, Canton, Milkyway, Dhaba Express, L.G. Pan Plaza and Dahlia, among many others. One of the restaurant groups boasting of the best multi-cuisine food in Chennai is the Paramount Group, with some of the leading chain of restaurants such as Hotel Paramount, Paramount Restaurant and Hotel Paradise, among others.





Some of the other multi-cuisine restaurants in Chennai include Tulsi, Kafe 2000, Basera, Planet Yumm, The Cascade, Carnival Heights and Red E Food Court, among others. The popular South Indian restaurants in the city include Saravana Bhavan, Karaikudi, Komala's, Usilampatti Restaurant and Paramakudi restaurant, among others. There are host of five star restaurants offering some of the best cuisines, though in somewhat reasonable steep prices. Some of these are Great Kabab Factory in Hotel Radisson, Cedars, Dakshin, Peshawari, Raintree, Hip Asia and Taj Fisherman’s Cove, among others.

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