Madurai Alagappar Chettinadu Restaurant, Ramapuram

This non - vegetarian, air - conditioned restaurant serves Chettinadu cuisine (cuisine from the South of Tamil Nadu - which is spicy and most of the dishes have significant amount of chili, onion, garlic and curry leaves).

The lighting was quite dim. The place can seat around 50 pax and is located on the Mount Poonamallee road.

It was pouring the Saturday morning, as we were approaching Chennai and decided to stop over here for food at around 11.30 for lunch.

Going For

+ Good food - The South Indian meals (rice + appalam + rasam + chicken gravy + mutton gravy + fish gravy + sambar + a cup of curds + 2 veg dry side dishes) was served hot and was quite tasty. We were given the non-veg gravies without asking for the same. In some restaurants this gravy is served only on request. The fish fry was a big piece of Seer fish smeared with chili, turmeric and garlic based paste and fried. The Mutton Sukka Varuval - a dry and spicy mutton preparation had good pieces of mutton.

Not Going For

- Service is a bit laid back

- The lighting was annoyingly dim.

Two meals + 1 fish fry + 1 mutton sukka masala cost around INR 290/-.

Reco - Definitely worth a pit stop if you are driving by Ramapuram.