This is a restaurant located on junction of the 'bus stand' road and the road leading to the main shrine / church.
We'd been there for lunch. You are served a number of combos of meals. Plain vegetarian meals (not recommended as the sambar - a South Indian gravy made with pulses, vegetables, tamarind and a variety of spices - is quite insipid. ) The rasam - another typical South Indian gravy, more like a clear soup, literally means 'essence', made with a host of spices including coriander seeds and cumin seeds, with pulses and either tomato, tamarind or lime to give it the sour punch - is tasty with a garlic flavour. There is a pulse dish mixed with vegetables (dal / kootu), papad / appalam (a crispy fried snack made with black lentils - urud dal) and a dry vegetarian preparation that are served as accompaniments. There is also generous servings of very light butter milk (neer mor) but curds are served @ additional cost.
The other meals that are available are fish curry meals, mutton curry meals and chicken curry meals - the veg meals + a spicy gravy of the selected meat. There are a number of typical non-vegetarian chettinad dishes that are available - such as fish fry (seer fish fry), brain masala (made with goat / cattle brain), mutton chukka ( a dry mutton preperation), sora puttu (a dry flaky dish made with sharks), nandu masala (a semi gravy crab dish) and the list goes on.
We had ordered all three varieties of non-veg meals and I had a bit of all - the fish gravy meals was the best, although the other two were not bad either. The fish fry was a bit too well done and a bit dry. The sora puttu was good and so too was the mutton chukka.
The bill for 6 meals + 3 omelets + 1 mutton chukka + 1 sora puttu + 1 fish fry came to a bit less than INR 400/-. The interiors are very basic. The place is quite popular and at times one may have to wait to be seated. There is no air - conditioning and a place that could comfortably seat around 40 pax seats around 60+pax.
Reco - Must try - especially for lunch- and don't miss the fish curry meals.
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