Reviews Ali's Restaurant

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Syed Sagheer
+3.5
It is a nice joint. Has a good Shawerma, so just based on that I would have given full marks. But the other stuff like fried rice and grilled chicken is average. Nothing great to break out of the clutter. I would prefer grilled chicken from Fatoosh or Arabian Hut anyday. But a good joint for once in a while fun. Prices and portions are good.
Feb 14, 2018
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Nazeer Ahamed
+4
Service was good... Ambiance was pleasant... Negative part is Foods were not that spicy,, especially chicken fried rice and Chicken alfaham and another thing was ice cream price is too heavy comparatively with other hotels
May 28, 2017
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Chef ASD
+4.5
some how it's very good food and very posh ambiance and comfortable seatings. but so many negative feed back's for this restaurant I don't know why.......management have to focus this issue and short it out as soon as earliest.....price will be not too expensive compare to this ambiance and food.....service fine 😀😀😀
Apr 19, 2017
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Abdul Adnan
+4
I had ordered only one chicken biryani which was so rich in flavours that I was full just with the smell of it....tgey have a very great service....however the prices are a little steep....but still worth going ocasionally
Mar 26, 2017
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Kishore
+3.5
This was our first visit to the place. We decided to try out the 50% off offer on Dineout's Great Indian Restaurant Festival. There are selected restaurants where such deals are available.

The ambience of the place was really great. The interiors looked posh and very serene. The customer service here is better than most places I've been in. They are quick, very responsive and they take care of your needs well.

What we ordered: Corn cheese balls, Masala Kulcha, Mix Veg. Curry, Schezwan Egg Fried Rice, Vanilla Single Sundae, Butterscotch Ice cream.

Complementary: Pomegranate juice as a welcome drink

The food quality, though not exceptional, was good enough for the pricing. I loved the corn cheese balls particularly. They were crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, fried to the perfect amount. The masala kulcha and the Mix veg curry were good too, although they didn't stand out as exceptional. The same goes for the Egg Schezwan fried rice. The butterscotch ice cream was delicious, with caramel frostings in it. The vanilla sundae however was just average. The vanilla tasted like one of those packed ice creams. Altogether, it was a good lunch, and the 50% off deal made it all the better. If it weren't for that deal, it would not have been such a great experience.

Deals availed: 50% off on the total bill amount using 'Dineout' app.

Bill amount: Rs. 720. After availing the deal, we paid Rs. 389

Ambience - 4/5

Price - 3.5/5

Food - 3/5

Service - 4/5
Feb 05, 2017
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Dεερακ Sμrεsh
+5
I should give 10/5 starts. Because I have ordered a Mutton biriyani @ 12:30 AM and it was in my hands @ 1 AM. Very fast delivery.

The packing was great and biriyani taste was also great.
Jan 05, 2017
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Deepak Kumar
+5
A nice arabian restaurant.. Ambience is great location is perfect!!.. special mention to the open kitchen they have..  Food was great . special mention to their signature Mandi Briyani very tasty .
Dec 31, 2016
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Peter S
+5
One of the best restaurant for BBQ Chicken and Mandhi Briyani. tried many of their Non Veg dishes like Gravy , Tandoor etc everything were excellent taste. very good service and the best thing is their pricing its very reasonable .
Dec 20, 2016
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Ilyas Mohamed
+5
Had wonderful experience dining at Ali's Restaurant. taste was great on Briyani and Grill. Service was great, would recommend this restaurant to everyone.
Dec 13, 2016
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Fathima Iqbal
+5
Nice restaurant with nice ambiance ... the service was great  pleasing and explained all the dishes to us... food taste was excellent and reasonable prices , easy to find location right opposite to Anna Arivalayam.
Dec 10, 2016
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Dayalan Pooja
+4.5
Went to Ali's based on friends recommendation must say this is a lovely place to dine beautifully decorated interior . service was friendly parking was valet and easy .

Parotta with chicken korma was awesome . Ordered many other items and everything taste nice .

Dec 08, 2016
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George Mano
+5
Nice dining experience at Ali's Restaurant . Briyani was delivered on time hot and well packaged. reasonable price and easy order through their call canter. hassle free payment by credit card. keep it up ali's
Dec 07, 2016
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Priya K
+5
been to Ali's yesterday . ordered whole Grilled Chiken it was very yummy. chicken currty with roti roti was remarkable taste. very pocket friendly . and preparation time was reasonable . nice ambiance and easy to find .
Dec 03, 2016
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Thiru Venket
+5
If you love biryani then you shoul have go to Ali's . had a very pleasant dining experiance .
decent ambience with good supportive staffs. great restaurant with greater value for money
Nov 30, 2016
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Samik Banu
+4.5
Ambiance - 5/5
Food Quality : 4.5/5
Value for money : 5/5

Had a satisfied meal at Ali's restaurant few day ago. would try their door delivery option soon.
Nov 29, 2016
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Satish Kumar
+5
Visited this place 3 days ago with my friends and ordered Mutton Mandhi Briyani . it was served hot and tasted very delicious. very reasonably priced with correct quantity worth for money . for less than 700 Rs all our stomachs were filled with great food.

Very nice ambiance with comfortable seating , service was great. had wonderful time dining there . would often visit this restaurant.
Nov 28, 2016
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Adil Ashrat
+4.5
Ordered food home and it was delivered in 45mins. Ordered a Mandi mutton biriyani and Fish tawa fry which was really awesome and tastes great. The balance in the flavors was good not too spicy and not too blunt. Got 2 pieces of Gulab jamun with the order which was good too.
Nov 27, 2016
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Paras Jyothi
+5
Ordered Grilled chicken from Ali's for the first time , delivery was quick and easy. very well cooked and tastiest grilled chicken. price was reasonable .
Nov 26, 2016
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Lance Lewis
+5
Yummy Mandi Briyani ! I have been to this place couple of times to have their Briyani Of all I have had, my favourites are Mutton Mandhi Briyani and Alfaham Grilled Chicken . many other items on menu is also good.. the portions are in good size, you may end up over eating. The ambience is pleasant and neat. Service is also good. I will  surely recommend it to my friends
Oct 30, 2016
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Gokul Ram
+5
Been to this place several times in October. wanted to share my experience.  excellent location opposite to Anna Arivalayam . taste on almost eveything was superb . become a great fan of their signature Mandi Briyani which is not easy to find in Chennai . their Grilled Chicken is simply the best in town. cozy and very elegant decoration made my dining time a pleasurable all the time . service is also good . I heared they opened recently and they have only 1 branch ,  hope they would spread all over Chennai soon. all the best to Ali's Team.
Oct 24, 2016
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Abinash John
+3.5
Food was good. Non veg dishes had good quantity of meat. The biriyani had a nice flavor and tasted very good. The quantity of the combo biriyani was less.
Sep 20, 2016
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Syed Tanveer Ahmed.
+4
'Tanveer, your aunt said she's coming in the evening. Where shall we go for dinner?'

'Ma, we'll go to hyatt... '

*finish your sentence before I slap you look from mom*

' Ke opposite mein there's some new Arabian place'

😁😁

That was the actual conversation that happened, and I purposefully paused after 'hyatt' just for dramatic effect. 😄 worked well!

This new place, has been up for about a month or so I guess, but I've only managed to see it a week back. First things first, the place needs a new sign board. A neon sign board that would probably look passé on the Las Vegas strip. It needs to be that bright and big. Like, standing at teynampet signal, where the most underrated restaurant of Chennai, hotel ananda, is there, I should be able to see that there's a hotel here. People driving on Mount Road, often, pathu paisa kooda neram irukkadhu. If you need to get them inside, a new sign board is absolutely essential.

The place is pretty good. They have valet parking, or at least, they have people to take care of your car since you can only Park it on the side of the road.
The establishment has some sort of an open seating on the ground floor, with a lawn like carpet. While its a different move, I don't see it being very sensible because, 1. The roof is covered, so you aren't eating under the stars. 2. Chennai's weather needs no explanation.

Give off the space for parking if you ask me! The air-conditioned part of the establishment on the first floor is more than enough!

The place is well lit. No idea about natural lighting as I had gone for dinner and the windows were either covered or non existent. Couldn't tell. Chairs, were comfy, though they had some sofa seating as well, I preferred the chairs, like I always do.

The food. We didn't know what to expect and I hadn't tried the place beforehand, so for the first time in a long time, I was trying out a new place with family. Hence constant taunts of 'If the food sucks, Tanveer should only pay the bill' were increasing every minute. It was time we got down to business.

Food orders included, a veg and a non veg sizzler combo, a Mutton curry dosa, 4 wheat parottas, chicken hyderabadi gravy, a schezwan egg noodles and tandoori chicken.

The sizzler combos are a great idea for people with small appetites. They have a combo, of a soup, a rice/biryani, a side, and a dessert and a mini Pepsi can , at Rs 179 for the veg and 199 for the non veg combo. Damn good pricing if you ask me. The quantity of food served for each sizzler was also very good. The veg soup offered was a sweet corn soup and the non veg offering was a leg of lamb (aatu kaal) soup. Sweet corn soup was the usual fare, good quantity, tasted good, after dousing it with some pepper. The other soup was amazing! A nice strong peppery flavor and we all took to it! The problem though was that, the aatu kaal was not an aatu kaal at all. It was a nalli elumbu. For the vegetarians who are still reading this overly komattifying description, it's not a bone from the leg, but a regular bone. Lol. Sorry ya. 😄

The tandoori chicken was the dish of the day IMHO, and I genuinely feel it might as well be one of the best places to have tandoori chicken in Chennai, when compared to places which other mango people would visit. Of course, tandoori chicken at ITC would make you want to offer your hand in marriage to the Chef's daughter, but that isn't an aam admi place right! I was genuinely wondering if I should order another half chicken just for myself, and I would have if not for the truck load of food that was incoming.

The non veg sizzler combo had a biryani and some pepper chicken as a side to it. The biryani, just couldn't cut it, as per the unfairly high standards that my entire family has, only specific to biryani. Most other dishes we would gladly eat on the grounds of 'Saami soru podudhu' but biryani na one head weight, my entire family has, myself included. Guilty as charged. 😄 the pepper chicken side was cooked well, but they didn't add enough salt to it. While that was an error we corrected without much hassle, on our own, it could be avoided. Basic stuff after all.

The veg sizzler had a garlic fried rice and some crispy fried vegetables. My mother loved the fried rice as it wasn't aggressively spiced like usual fast food places. I on the other hand thought that the dish was a little too bland. Furthermore, they had used the usual sambar sadham rice to make the garlic fried rice. Dei, as a local fast food connoisseur myself, I can tell you, that even in ultra mokka places, inside Chennai, any type of fried rice is only made with basmati rice. It doesn't have to be of the best quality, but if it isn't basmati, even local fast food regulars would be irked. The chef has got to change this. No way you can serve any kind of fried rice, without using basmati rice as the base. Chance ey illa. Crisped vegetables were lovely, according to my mother and my cousins, but i just gave it a miss.

The Mutton curry dosa was damnnnn good! It was a nice thick dosa with loads of minced Mutton in it! I only wish they had given us some saalan (or salna as namma pasanga would say) as a side with the dosa. It would have elevated the dish to a whole new level!

The schezwan egg noodles, was okay. The noodles were a little over cooked, and so a little thick and sticky. Like pasta, noodles also need to be cooked, al-dente , and hence be firm to the bite. Missed that here. That's Chinese cooking #101. Idhu la sodhappina eppudi.

I was confused with what gravy I wanted so I just asked the gentleman waiting our table. He asked me if I would like the gravy to be spicy, and then suggested the chicken hyderabadi a lemon and green chilly based gravy.
'it's spicy sir, but it won't burn your mouth' was his description. Seri, let's try it.
The wheat parottas were good, nice and flaky, I just wished they were a little bit bigger. The gravy was wonderful and very polarising. 3 of the 6 people on the table didn't like it, and the other 3 of us, especially myself were raving about it. Looking at a few good pieces of chicken and a nightmare inducing amount of unseeded green chillies, my first impression was , 'Mavaney, piles than' 😂 😂 but thankfully it didn't happen. The gravy was super tangy and yes, slightly spicy but it wasn't like someone dropped a bhut jholakia in it. I loved the tangy-ness of the gravy more than anything. If you are looking to go beyond the usual kadai chicken or butter chicken, or if you're the kind of person who would squeeze every drop of lemon on your pav bhaji, or your tandoori chicken, then this is the dish for you.

Gulab jamun, 2 pieces in 2 bowls, arrived as a part of the sizzler combo. As my sister had been very persistent about going to Brownie heaven for dessert, even much before dinner time, we skipped buying any other desserts here and headed towards New college. Brownie heaven pathi pesa arambicha pesitey irukkalam. Please read my review of that place for further details. Also condone the shameless self advertising. 😄

Their service was a mixed bag. There was one gentleman, who either absolutely loved his job, or was on the brink of loosing it, and was asked to show some enthusiasm. Our plates were being cleared, seconds after we were done, and once after we had just got done with the exceptional tandoori chicken, he placed some after meal sweetener on the table and asked me if i want the bill. Dei. Enna da nee. His enthusiasm was at such a high level, barring a few more mistakes, for the rest of our service. Eventually we were all like, as vadivelu would say it, 'Ivan romba nallavan ah irukkan da 😄' and so we just let it go. He already seemed like he was having a bad day. There was one gentleman who seemed so smitten by a female entourage, so much that he didn't notice me frantically waving for water, when I accidentally bit into a green chilly. What da, bros before youknowwhatimsaying . 😄

After loosing the legendary Hotel deluxe to old age, sea shell to inefficiency and being left with Ozaann as the only non veg centric place in the pondy bazaar area, Ali's comes as a welcome change of scene. They also have a full non veg meal scene for lunch. Though I'm willing to bet a considerable amount of money that it's not going to be better than the full meals at hotel ananda nearby, (if you're reading this, you should make plans to go, like tomorrow itself for lunch at ananda) I'm quite intrigued by what they are offering. If their food for dinner service is anything to be judged by, I'm already having high expectations for the full meals for lunch. Now all I have to do, is find some time and the extraordinary courage required to go beyond hotel ananda that serves absolutely stellar food, to give this place a try. Fortune favors the brave though. 👍

Again, go to hotel ananda macha. Please. It's the absolute shizz. 😄

Cheers. : )

Sep 12, 2016
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Ram
+4.5
Decent restaurant in very convenient location right opposite to Anna Arivalayam .I'm a lover of their parrota, and nattu kozhi briyani . also their tawa friend variety of fishes.

All dishes are very reasonably prices , for door delivery they used to offer free gravy for their parota  which was awesome  but no more they want us to order gravy separately :( but still work the price and taste was simply delicious .

They're new and too much compeition in the market they must keep up their quality and maintain the hygenic level so they can be one of best restaurant in Chennai.

Everyone should try to dine here , all the best .
Aug 24, 2016
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Venket
+5
Moneyworthy!! went for dinner with my wife last week, food was amazing , lively ambiance and friendly staffs . price was unbelievable low compared to other restaurants.  my to try new place for non veg lovers in chennai
Aug 04, 2016
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KrI$h
+5
Perfect place to order for door delivery . ordered Chicken Briyani combo, had perfect amount of Briyani which taste mild and perfect aroma, chicken fry which was very juicy and well fried , gulab Jamun was soft and yummy , raita.  all were very decently packed in their combo box which was perfectly designed for home delivery . spend Rs 250 which was absolutely worth of money , would always order from them, haven;t had a chance to dine in there but I'm planning for it sometime during this week.
Aug 01, 2016
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Subarah
+5
didn't know about this place until 2 days ago , recommended by a friend who dined there . thought of trying it through door delivery at late evening , this is a great place to order food from at late night. The food is very tasty and delivery is also fast. This seems to be a new place but a great one.
Jul 29, 2016
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Jeyaganapathy
+3.5
Just now had food from Ali's delivered to our place and the food was awesome. However, they have missed 4 parotas that we have placed through zomoto. The person who have delivered the food told us that is the fault from zomoto side that they didn't receive the parota order. I thought that's strange, but anyway veg kottu parota, gobi manchurian and naan tasted good. If our order would have been taken right I think this is the right place to order food for the night. I didn't try their non veg which I will do soon, but the food was very good. 
If you are placing the food please call them and make sure they have taken the right order.
Jul 22, 2016
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Girish Kanagarajan
+4
They had started the restaurant only a week back so I had visited it to check out how it was.

Food:
Mutton briyani: 3.5/5
Egg kothu parota: 4/5
Parota: 4/5
Nethili fish fry: 4/5

Ambience: 4/5
The set up of the hotel is very good.

Service:4.5/5

Negatives: No Air conditioning but they said that they were planning to start that in a weeks time.

Overall rating: 4/5
Jun 19, 2016
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Sunanda
+4
The place was nice , it was small ,open,and breezy even on a summer night . I went with my family and my dad was really pleased , not just because of the food but also their service.
We got watermelon juice ,mutton briyani, egg dosa, parotta, egg kothu parotta and nethli meen fry ,everything was really yummy and the the service was quick
This place had an open kitchen , 4 to 5 tables and the floor was covered with grass which gave the feel of a perfect outdoor restaurant. We really liked everything here and will surely recommend it to my friends
Jun 17, 2016
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Heyman Yeah
+5
A beautiful place with especially a really really great outdoor shed like ambience which will be enjoyable spending your time in here while eating with friends and family. The food given are mostly sandwiches burgers and pizza but it is slightly expensive. But totally worth the expense. Service is decent. They also have a small cafe like bar at the side ( no drinks of course ). Wonderful place to be in.😊😊☺️
4
Varun S
+4
Loved their biryani. Mandi biryani was unheard of until they put it on their menu. Not much of an ambience, but still you can go there to enjoy their biryani
4
Amarendra Sahoo
+4
Sandwich grill pizza and barbecue
4
Krishna Sakharwade
+4
This restaurant serves only fast food. The food is costly compare to MacD but the food quality is good... restaurant staff is polite & professional
5
Durgalakshmi S
+5
Nice place to eat and best for couples. Price is also average and good service provided
4
vikram v
+4
I love this place it has some of best deals online with decent presentation of their food.
5
Ajith Alex Maloth
+5
Good food and nice ambiance..
4
Debojit Dhar
+4
A nice & cozy place to spend time with friends & munch
5
Neelima Makeup Artist
+5
Good
5
Sameer Khan
+5
Food was good
5
Mohanmed Shaik
+5
Superb burger!
5
KOMAL SINGH
+5
Worth dining in it....
4
Abinaya Sabarinath
+4
Excellent food
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