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Chinese
No info on opening hours
$$$$
Price range per person INR 300
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This restaurant specializes in Chinese cuisine. You will be offered tasty biryani. Annachi is remarkable for its professional service.
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Chinese
No info on opening hours
$$$$
Price range per person INR 300
Address
70, Siva Elango Salai, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Features
Сredit cards accepted
This new-in-town Chettinad (and multi-cuisine) restaurant offers a middling experience - interesting interiors, confounding menu, and average food and service.
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It was amusing to learn that Bengaluru first got to taste this Chettinad restaurant before Chennai did. The decor is an inventive interpretation of elements from Chettinad-style houses, interestingly adapting Chinese lanterns too, probably to indicate the presence of these foreign cuisines on their menu too. The seating is either on stone or wooden chairs, so don't expect the comfort of cushions.
The menu is vast and therefore very confusing. In addition, it is frustrating to discover the item(s) you want are not available, only after evening, etc. Service is average; we asked for recommendations and got very disinterested responses.
The Kaadai Biriyani (₹205) was average at best. Nothing exciting about the pieces of quail in it either. The Yera 65 (₹210) and Annachi Spl Kozhi (₹150) were prawns and chicken fried in a similar way - called by different names; good but nothing 'special' about the 'Annachi Special'. The Annachi Spl Meen Tava Varuthathu (₹250) was pretty bland. I wish I could say something different about the Spl Erachi Melagu Chukka (Mutton Pepper Fry; ₹180).
At about ₹1000 for 2 people, this new restaurant poses no danger to its more established Chettinad predecessors.