Muralidhar Shreedhaaran
+4
Heard so much about Viswanathan Chettinadu Hotel in food circles, never really had an opportunity to visit it. A friend and I happened to find ourselves in the vicinity of Chennai Citi Center around lunch time and I immediately decided this was where we were going to have lunch, glad we did!. There are two branches of the restaurant located diagonally opposite to each other. One was an AC restaurant, while the other one was a basic non-AC place. Assuming that the AC restaurant would be dimly lit, perhaps not good enough for clicking pictures, we stepped into the non-AC place. It was a simple no-frils place.
Taste was heaven.. Best fish dishes available here. And even cost effective
Had ordered
Fish curry, steam rice, and vanjaram fish fry
Must visit place in chennai
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Where📍: Viswanathan Chettinadu Hotel
What⁉️ : Non Veg Meals☘️Mutton Chukka (Fry)☘️Chicken 65 Boneless☘️Prawn Thokku (Fry)
Ambience:⭐️⭐️⭐️
The place has been renovated recently and is fully air conditioned now with adequate seating space. They serve only Lunch and Dinner here. Comfortable to dine in with family too. They have a Non-AC seating place opposite this hotel which serves Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. The staffs are pretty quick to respond to your neeeds and serve you with a happy smile😁
Food:⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Non Veg meals : The best non veg meals I’ve had with a wide variety of non veg gravies and two accompaniment that keeps changing everyday. The gravies were so full of flavour and the consistency wasn’t the watery kind you find in most places. Nattu Kozhi gravy🐓, Chicken gravy🍗 and rasam were my favourites here. The rice is served piping hot and is soo fluffy🍚which enhances the flavour of the gravies when mixed with it❤️🥰😍
Mutton Chukka : The texture of the meat was so spongy and the flavour of the spice was well immensed in the meat. Even after the dish got cold the meat remained to be soft. That shows the quality and experience of cooking the meat to perfection👍
Chicken 65 : This is one of the mandatory dish ordered wherever I go and I loved this to bits as it wasn’t oily and the chicken was soft and flavourful.
Prawn Thokku : The flavours were perfect though the consistency was a bit watery to be called a thokku. The prawns was tiny and cooked perfectly too👌
VFM: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
💰 Range : 100 - 350
Ps : Pocket friendly dishes to satisfy your Chettinadu food cravings🥰the quality and service has been consistent over the past years and keeps getting better eachday 👌They also do home delivery to nearby neighbourhoods🏘
Once a Biryani lover, always a Biryani lover. ❤️
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Mutton Biryani from Vishwanathan Miltary Hotel (Behind Citi Centre) 😋
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Authentic Chettinad Style Mutton Biryani with a lot of spices. This is a small mess that serves flavourful Chettinad food at reasonable price.
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Price: Rs. 200/-
very nice and fast delivery..
The best seeragasamba briyani hands down. Their gravies are also to die for. The meals was more than sufficient. The masalas and flavors in tact. This place is a blessing and super pocket friendly ❤️
Recently, we ordered 2chicken biryani and 1mutton biryani plus we ordered 3masala omelettes plus one slice fish, and one nattu kozhi gravy.
Mutton biryani was excellent. Chicken biryani was good when added with Salma.
The best was of course the fish fry.
The omlettes were good.
Nattukozhi gravy was o.k
Altogether a good experience.
Their Salma was excellent.
ordered mutton. biriyani it was made of seeraga samba rice and it's worth the cost .but the way of cooking the rice is not nice and this biriyani is not good as compared to thalapakati seeraga samba biriyani.Raitha is not nice no curd is there in raitha only onion and ginger is there.Instead of giving some birinjal chutney with biriyani they can give Kuruma or Dhalsa .
Ordered food through Zomato in this hotel,the ratings and photos tempted me to go with it.
Wowwwww is the expression that I'd give for the food.
Ordered chicken biryani,mutton biryani,fish fry and nattu kozhi chicken gravy..all of them were simply superb.
Mutton biryani was spicy and taste was typical south Indian.
Chicken biryani was slightly bland but the rice tasted fine.
Fish fry that was provided was big and well fried.it was shallow fried and tasted great.
Nattu kozhi gravy was perfectly spiced and masala mixed inside the pieces,the quantity was also quiet high.
Overall very much satisfied with the restaurant and the service provided by Zomato.
the quantity could have been more,but it tasted good!!!
For so many years i never tried eating Meals in a restaurant, no matter how fancy the restaurant is.. And yes i was wrong, my elder brother some how found the place and dragged me.. We as a family of 3 elders and two little ones visited the place for lunch.. There is always crowd in this place no matter what.. Restaurant is located behind City Center Mall..
So we went for 3 Non-Veg Unlimited Meals and three Vanjaram Fried Fish.. They serve the food in banana leaf.. To my surprise Once we ordered, the fried fish came first before the banana leaf.. unbelievably True..
So they serve Mutton Curry, Chicken Curry, Fish Curry, Prawn Thokku, White Rice, Vegetables, Butter Milk, Rasam, pap-pad.. Except the prawn thokku all are unlimited.. HEAVENLY FOOD.. Must try out place for meals.. And yes there are many extraordinary places who serve Meals...
Worth spending ur money..
After my first time i have been here 4 times..
Rating - 4.5
Fish kolambu taste is very nice, and egg kalakki is awesome with pepper.
Nice place to have non veg hotel in Mylapore .you get typical home made type non veg lunch and other side dishes here. Parking should be taken care as it is in crowded locality
Viswanathan Chettinad Hotel [No A/c] Opened a new branch just opposite to old one.
Its kinda mess. So don't expect any ambiance.
Full Meals (Unlimited) Just 80/-Rs
Prawn Thokku which was served with meals is extra ordinary( Must Try)
We ordered Chicken Fry (Average) & Crab Fry (Must Try - Excellent).
Side Dishes Each & Every items cost More than 150 /-.
They are accepting Debit / Credit Cards
-- Full Meals Lovers can try here --
Ohh u look 5 is too high but definitely no. Surely a great place to have lunch and dinner. Ambience is very average but food is very delicious and well cooked. U will feel home taste. All their non veg gravies are too good. Don miss their idli's
. Prawns dishes r really good. Chicken 65 and other chicken starters are also very good. One thing is they dont provide good drinks and dessert. Its near Citi center and its a place to visit definitely and its pocket friendly.
You want a fix of great Chettinadu food ,head here.Shark puttu,liver fry,prawn fry ,egg kalakki,omelette, naatu kozhi preparations,kingfish fry is all yummy .Do not miss the small dishes of nonveg gravies along with the meals .Wash it all down with the rasam they serve in the end and the foodie in you is fully satisfied . It is a small place .Just forget the ambience and dig into the sumptuous,wholesome food!
Guarantee for tummy full non veg meals. Prawn gravy and mutton gravy was good and spicy also.
Fish & chicken gravy - below avg 😳
Fish fry & prawn fry- superb
Mutton chops - just 1 piece for 180 rs....totally unacceptable 😡
Arun Ganesan Murukanantham
+4
I have been here for a lunch, i came to hear about this hotel from an youtube video, so wanted to check it once.
So, about the hotel,
Food: The food here was really good, they serve meals mainly followed with really good fish fry and an amazing prawn fry, i personally really loved the meen kuzhambu here, it was insanely good here - 4.5/5
Ambience: The ambience is very normal here and mostly the hotel is fully crowded, though being a small hotel, they could have maintained it more clean and regular table cleaning could have been trained - 3/5
Service: The service here is fast, but the people work here do not communicate properly - 3/5
Price: The price here is really high, for this standard of ambience and service, the price is high.
A must visit place for Non-veg peoples in chennai.
This one of the place where I have visited couple of times
It's recommended for non veg lunch along with their special gravies
Like their mutton chukka , Vanjaram fry , Prawn masala etc......
One of the good joints for chettinadu food
Slightly expensive when compared with the ambiance but service is very good except the waiting
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After hearing real good feedback for the place i wanted to try it what so ever. The place isnt great looks little shabby and cramped. Reaching here through car not a good idea, finding a near by parking slot is not very easy . But despite all this the food is good. They dont have any menu as such. For main course there is biryani ( not the best place for biryani) and meals.meals is real good they provide with a chicken gravy, prawn curry , fish kuzhambu and mutton gravy. There us nandu rasam available but which is offered only when asked for. Prawn cury and fish kuzhambu was very good.chicken and mutton gravy were kind of watery but the taste was good. Vanjaram fish fry was the best of all the starters. Nothing to complain aboutbthe startes as well mutton chukka, yeral thokku, chicken 65, omlette were the few tried and all were good.
This place is defenitly a no if you have your vegeterain friends joining you . coz they will end up with only sambar rasam and no starters.
To sum up the 140rs for a meal is worth every penny.
Been here few days back. First of the food was tasty especially the crab gravy and fish gravy. King fish fry was good. Everything is good. Only thing is I feel it's little costly when compared to similar kind of hotels.
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This visit was pending for long time, finally visited here on past weekend. Restaurant was fully packed when we arrived, Luckily we got two seats at non ac section as soon as we entered.
No menu card here and everyone dining here seems to be a regular visitor of this place. I had an idea about what to have here Thanks to Zomato.
Food: we had meals, prawn fry and an omlet
Meals - we asked for fish curry with rice but the waiter suggested to try their prawn curry. White rice with thick prawn curry was excellent 👌👌 for the second round with rice I asked for chicken curry but it was average and my partner gone for fish curry this time and it was also very good 👍. Rasam, more (buttermilk) and the vegetable sides everything was great 👍
Prawn Fry - This took sometime to arrive but one of the best prawn fry I had in recent times 👌
Omlet - Took a long time to arrive but tasted good. May be I should have ordered something different like White omlet or Kalakki but no big deal will try it soon
Service - service was excellent 👍👍 Though the restaurant is very busy the Gentleman who was at cash counter (taking delivery orders and settling bills) frequently visits every table and asked what else we wanted and if he saw a banana leaf empty he made sure that it was filled ☺️
The restaurant was a bit untidy and the banana leafs from previous visitors in the table must be removed immediately. The tape was not working at the hand wash so they kept a bucket with water but it was bad quality of water.
Price - Once we complete our meal we just need to go to cash counter and tell them what we had and than they will calculate the bill. Overall it was 470 rupees for all of the above items. Prawn fry here in Zomato menu is 160 rupees but they charged 230 rupees and I think it was due to the seasonal price.
This is must visit place for a pure non vegetarian food lovers ☺️
If u r looking for good quality, value for money, moderately spicy, south indian, non veg food.. this is the place..
Tasty food served hot.. though the place is small and cramped nothing match the lovely food that serve, my personal favorite are vanjaram fry and prawn thokku
People who r looking for ambiance place do not go there.
If u enjoy good food despite minimal pleasing ambiance it's the place to go..
A very decent place to eat non-vegetarian food. The spices are just perfect. Neither like flaming hot in the stomach 🔥 nor tasteless to eat.
Loved the gravies especially chicken kurma 😘😘. They served us two more cups without charging for it. Staff was very polite and friendly.
Service was neat and quick.
Food is really great. Kal dosa with chicken Kurma is must try and the omlette was good.
Pricing was average.
And it is totally worth the money 💰
Loved this place. 💓
Amazing Thaali , never miss the Omelette . Highly recommend.
Tried out the non veg gravies and they r a notch above normal taste.
Small simple place.
Woah... how do i start? a small, decent hotel with south indian recipes.. very nearby to Inox theatre.. Whenever you watch a movie in Inox pls dont miss checking this out.. I tried, Idly, varieties of Dosa, varieties of egg, scrambled egg, biryani and believe me all of them tasted so good. The speciality is you get to taste all curries/masala (mutton, chicken, crab, etc..) for idly, dosa... on top of all the cost is very less.. we were 5 of us and the total bill was close to 600 only though we had tummy full.. must visit..
Amazing food! Must try the prawn gravy! Fresh seafood available here. Also tried the chicken 65 this time. Don't leave chennai without eating here.
Best restaurant in Chennai for Lunch. Meals with prawns and fish kulambu will give you pure bliss. You can eat 5 rounds with the same combo.
Mutton chukka ,liver both tasted yummy .
I recently spend some time food was excellent awesome service fish was nice taste all nonveg Curry's are homemade taste i like very much thank q.................................................
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A review was long over due as this is the place we visit always when we want to have South Indian meals for lunch, especially when parents are in Chennai. A small place on the lane near Citi center (car parking side).
Food 4.5/5
1) Meals + gravy - one of the best in Chennai. All gravies are excellent. The options are mutton gravy, mutton chops gravy, nandu gravy, prawn gravy, fish gravy, nattukozhi gravy
and whatever else - you just ask for it!!! All general chettinadu side dishes are available. I love their sura puttu. Chicken 65, Mutton chukka and liver are also good. Fish fry quality - we have had both good and bad experiences. Drink as much butter milk as you can.
2) Dinner - You dont need to get a separate side dish for gravy. You can get a dosa and they offer as much gravy as you want. Generally I see many bachelors coming in for dinner. Hot idli, if available with any gravy is superb. Surprisingly their fish gravy goes well with dosa. All items are good especially the parottas and dosa. Kalakki and omelette are perfect.
Ambience: 3.5/5
Not that great but good enough. Have seen many families coming in for lunch. For NORMAL people who dont create a fuss for everything, pretty much sufficient :)
Service: 4/5
Very good. We have been only to the AC room which accommodates around 24 people. There might be a wait for seats in the AC Hall on weekends. Otherwise the person who manages the AC hall and the owner are very responsive.
Value for Money: 3.5/5
A little costly in my opinion. if you have a lunch with side dishes it will cost around Rs. 500 per head.
Overall a good place for Chettinadu lunch. Would prefer this anyday over the buffets or the high end Chettinadu brands. My parents and in laws, both from Nagercoil approve this place immediately for lunch, which itself is a huge credit for them n my opinion.
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Came across this restaurant on WCE and made a mental note to visit it. What I didn't know at that time was that, I'd be visiting it the very day!
N since then (July 2k16), I have become a regular here. A small place which can accommodate about 4 pax in the non ac seating n 5-6 pax inside A/c.
I have been here for breakfast, lunch n dinner and have tried all of their dishes.
Their Fish fry is the best of best! We don't come out without ordering at least 2 of those succulent slices.
Kalaki: again, a no fuss, simple form of kalaki with just salt n pepper for seasoning. Always Served super hot.
Chicken n mutton gravies: authentic tasting spicy, perfectly cooked meat :)
Mutton kothu parota: among the best that I have ever tasted. The portion is enough for 2 average eaters n absolutely drool worthy.
Prawn curry: spicy, tangy concoction of yumminess:D
Crab masala: the hotness of the pepper will punch ya right in the throat n the softness of the crab meat will make you yearn for more!!
Special mention for their Vada: the crispiest vada ever!
There are minor hiccups but Overall, a must try restaurant!
A great place to get nice quality non-vegetarian meals at very reasonable price 😊
The meals include rice, various curry gravies and some veggie side dishes like potato and spinach 🍗🍖😍 The meals as a whole cost ₹190 and without the rice it's ₹130☺️
Otherwise all the side dishes cost a bit high 🤔 The fish is real great, but then one piece is about ₹200+ 🙄 The pepper chicken was a very classy dish 😊🍗 simple but nice 👍
Overall really good food 😁
Healthy food ☺️
Value for money 💰
When it comes to food, though I don't mind trying various cuisines, my heart goes out for South Indian elai sappadu (meals served on banana leaves) whenever I need that ultimate satisfaction. On one such day, I decided to treat myself with good meals and we headed straight to Viswanathan Chettinadu Hotel. Located in the PV Koil street, the same lane of the car entrance for citi centre, this is a small hole in the wall kinda place. When we went by 1pm it was fully packed. Four 4 seater in the non-ac section and 5-6 4 seater in the ac section (yes they do have air conditioned space). We waited for 5-10 mins and got a table in the ac room.
For starters, you need to ignore the hygiene of the place. If you are picky on this part you may as well skip the place.
Quality Of food is excellent. Biryani is both spicy and with flavors. The fish fry is well done with prawns thokku as the side dish. The fish curry is simply the best of all the messes. A great place for good food
One of the must visit joint for Non Vegetarian meals in Chennai. Used to be a mess but has been recently renovated to a restaurant. Meals is brilliant and is served with multiple varieties of curry like Chicken, Mutton,Fish,Crab,Prawn etc. Fish fry is their specialty. Only issue with them is that they have hiked their rates and they cost a little higher and don't go in with any expectation w.r.to ambience.
Veey good food...prawn fry and mutton dry are signature dishes...awsome taste...very fast service...hotel area is small..but team is very good...
The mess is a very small place. A/c hall can dine only around twenty at a time and the non A/C does not have much space to. I think they concentrate much on take aways.
Every single dish we ordered tasted excellent. We ordered idiyappam, chicken gravy, egg dosai, prawn fry, fish fry, kalaki, mutton chukka, mutton gravy and idly.
Stand out was the fish gravy. To my surprise they gave crab, fish and chicken gravy as complimentary. Items were authentic, spicy and felt like home made ones .The every single dish was distinct with their own flavour . We were totally satisfied.
Its located near citi centre, mylapore. Parking car could be little tough on weekdays. So watch out. No restrooms as well. But definitely worth trying u will not regret. As I was devouring their food forgot totally about pictures. Excuse guys😃
Its a "mess". But what a Mess to eat at! Honestly service cant get any better than what u get there, typical south indian Hospitality and mouthwatering food.
This is what I called omale food. Mind blowing chettinadu fare these guys serve. Must visit if you are in chennai/mylappre. Try the following :
Era thokku
Egg/chicken biryani
Ceylone veechu
Special chicken gravy
Mutta dosai
Remember that six sachin blasted off shoaib akhtar at 2003 world cup ?? That's how good you will feel after eating here
Need I say more?
An epic hangout to this very place after a delayed start,Which was a blessing in itself ! If one does not care about the look ,Feel and things like that ,Then You are in for a cracker here! That's what i felt in only my 2nd visit to this spot in 5 years !......Will look to do my best to make it wheelchair accessible by requesting a removal of the existing 3 stairs ! I saw someone walking with elbow crutch into the place just before i went in
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Viswanathan Chettinadu Hotel, Mylapore:
If all you want, is just good South Indian food, and the ambience of the place doesn't matter much to you, then this place is surely for you.
The Order:
Meals: You are served unlimited Rice and 3 types of Non-Vegetarian Gravies - Chicken Gravy, Fish Curry and Prawns Thokku - Spinach Kootu, Poriyal, Rasam, Buttermilk and Pickle. No pieces of Chicken or Fish in the Gravy.
I think, the server could read my mind and that's why I was not served anything from the Vegetarian sides 😛. Not that I'm a great fan of Vegetarian fare when I'm in a mood to kill Non-Vegetarian. Everything that was served to me was extremely tasty.
Chicken Biryani: Tasted similar to a home-made Biryani. If you like Medium Grained Rice in your Biryani (Like Seeraga Samba), then you'll love this Biryani. Interestingly, a Chicken Gravy and Raita is the accompaniment.
Fish Fry: One of the best Fish Fry that I've ever had. The fish was fresh. As I've mentioned in my previous write-ups, I'm very sensitive to the smell of food, particularly to the smell of Fish/Seafood. This place sure gets listed in my Seafood Trail - Recommended for Seafood lovers.
Pepper Chicken: True to the name, it was only Pepper and Chicken. No other overpowering spices. Very well made. Chicken was soft and the spice hits you at correct notes.
Overall Experience: Service was super fast. The place was jam packed with people. After your meal, you go to the billing counter and tell the Cashier what you had and pay the bill. The waiters don't accompany you or get the bill, nor does the cashier cross-check with the waiter. I requested an itemised bill, to which the cashier obliged. Otherwise, it's not itemised, just the number of items and the total amount.
The restaurant can pass off as any road side eatery but the food definitely speaks for itself ! The idlis were really soft , please try the idiappams and parothas which are ideal to go with the prawn thokku , mutton sukka and crab masala .. The chicken , mutton , fish and prawn gravies are the icing on the cake ! And yes , not to forget the fish fry .. One of the best places for authentic South Indian food if not the best ! Forget the ambience as the food makes you forget everything else ! A must visit restaurant if you are a non veg buff , and the pricing is very economical considering the quality and taste ..
Taste is super, typical south Indian like food
Ambience is like ordinary hotel
Less waiting time
Fish fry is a bit costly, but tastes good..
Food was good but.. If ambience matters a lot to you then this is not the place. they need to improvise on that. Didn't expect this taste in Chennai...
The best Madurai Chettinad food I have had... They have 6 or 7 types of gravies, each testing different.. Try mutton chukka, crab masala, prawn thooke... All super yummm !!
I have always felt very satisfied and the food does not sit in your stomach till night... A must go for authentic Chettinad food !!
If your mom out of station, for sure you can prefer this hotel..
I have tasted chicken, fish and mutton kolambu with meals.. everything tastes great.. prices are affordable... Weekly twice means "IT'S A GREAT HOTEL TO CHARGE YOUR TASTE BUDS"..
Few cons are
1. Need kolambu parcel for cheaper price where chicken kolambu charged rs160/- which serves only 2 in that box..
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this is my 2nd time to this venue. What i like about this place is the simple menu and the rightly spiced meat. Ordered meals with mutton sukka and Vanjaram tava fry (seer fish fry). Looking at the pics you can find that the fish was just fresh out from the water, rightly coated with right amount of masala and pan fried to perfection. The mutton sukka was just soft. Mutton cooked well with good amount of spice and drizzled with fried curry leaves. The accompaniments for the meals were also simple and good. The first to come was the crab curry. Awesome is the only word. I could feel the taste of crab in the tingy tangy curry. Then came the prawns thokku gravy. Garlicy tomatoey style curry correctly spiced. Then followed by meen kuzhambu (fish gravy). which w as also perfectly cooked. Finished with a portion of rasam rice and curd rice. Damage all together came to 500 bucks which I felt was quite reasonable. Seer fish the main damager for rs.190. All know the market rate of seer fish so can't do much about it. But i really felt the 500 bucks was worth spending.
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