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Chief guest at Patrician college

Feeling honoured for being invited as the Chief Guest by the Patrician College, Chennai for the Fundraising event organized to support higher education of the Under-privileged students on the Eve of Christmas. Spent a valuable time with Rev.Joesph and Ms.Geetha, VP of the College and discussed a lot about how under-privileged children can be supported in their educational journey.

Review - Shanghai Annaachi, Chennai

I had ordered before from Shnaghai Annaachi. After being impressed with the food very much from the home deliveries, this time I wanted to check out their ambience and the service at their outlet @ KNK road.

The Veetu Kozhi kolambu & the steamed rice were the delicious ones from their menu. But this time I wanted to try something else.

I was in a mood to try something spicy but not a gravy nor a briyani, I after lots of thoughts I enquired the waiter for a spicy and saucy noodles. And I finally settled for the schezwan chicken noodles n roasted chilly chicken.

I was served a colorful and spicy looking noodles spiced up with tomatoes, green chillies and capsicum. I should say that they are the best noodles I had in my life. The noodles were awesome as it tasted like the home made noodles with a Chinese flavour to it.

Definitely worth the money

Here’s my rating

Overall       - 5/5
Ambience   - 5
Price           - 5
Waiting time - 5
Taste             - 5

SuperChef Chennai - Food Carnival

Being a foodie and part of the facebook group ‘Chennai Food Zone” I din’t wanna miss this international food carnival organized by the Madras Cosmopolitan Ladies Circle 38 & Round Table India - Area 2 

Initially I went around to check out all the stalls and you can get an idea on the number of stalls by imagining a picture of the sheer size of the Amir Mahal ground.

I paid for the tokens and started tasting different international cuisines from countries such as Britain, Belgium, Singapore, Burma and not to mention our own India.

Among the overall stalls, the stall that attracted the maximum crowd was that of the Waf O’bel. When I started looking around the stalls, it was empty. But when I was done with the stalls and came back to buy a waffle, all I could get was a long queue waiting to get the waffles.

Finally After an hours wait, I was lucky enough to lay my hands on the waffles. I should say its worth the wait.

And the next thing is the burmese delicacies by The Park. The burmese cuisine is always my big time favorite and when I saw it here, I couldn’t resist more. Ordered Khowsuey and was busy finding a place to sit and started tasting 

it that I totally forgot to take a picture of it.

After this, my stomach was totally stuffed, but on seeing the Chat items in the Stall of Uncle Sam’s kitchen, without any second thought I ordered for them.

Apart from the stalls, there were other activities happening around. The one that caught my eye was the ice-carving event and the guy was amazing. You can see it yourself here in this picture.

On the whole, it was a nice event.

Thanks to Madras Cosmopolitan Ladies Circle 38 & Round Table India - Area 2 for organising such a wonderful food fest carnival.

Sea Shell – Chennai food review

After a long week, and back to back travel wrt to my social media agency business in Chennai’s traffic, I decided to have a nice non-vegetarian lunch at Sea-Shell Anna Nagar.

It’s been a long time that I had been there. I ordered my usual favorite “BBQ Chicken Grilled” coupled with a butter naan and Kerala Paratha. Also ordered egg curry for the naan and paratha.

I will always rate the grilled chicken at SeaShell as the best against any restaurants in Chennai. The egg curry tasted awesome for the paratha and the butter naan.

The ambience was great and gave me a calm experience to my mind which was so busy for the whole week.

The service was awesome and everything was served in time.

The price was Just ₹.545/- for a lunch of two people. And I should say that’s pretty normal for a 2 people lunch in Chennai.

Ratings:

Ambience: 5/5

Serving time: 5/5

Food taste: 5/5

Pricing: 4.5/5

Sea Shell – Chennai food review

After a long week, and back to back travel wrt to my social media agency business in Chennai’s traffic, I decided to have a nice non-vegetarian lunch at Sea-Shell Anna Nagar.

It’s been a long time that I had been there. I ordered my usual favorite “BBQ Chicken Grilled” coupled with a butter naan and Kerala Paratha. Also ordered egg curry for the naan and paratha.

I will always rate the grilled chicken at SeaShell as the best against any restaurants in Chennai. The egg curry tasted awesome for the paratha and the butter naan.

The ambience was great and gave me a calm experience to my mind which was so busy for the whole week.

The service was awesome and everything was served in time.

The price was Just ₹.545/- for a lunch of two people. And I should say that’s pretty normal for a 2 people lunch in Chennai.

Ratings:

Ambience: 5/5

Serving time: 5/5

Food taste: 5/5

Pricing: 4.5/5

Review - Delhi Highway, Nungambakkam

The rain didn't stop and it was drizzling still. The Kenyan black coffee we had in the morning at Starbucks couldn't keep us energetic for long. It was after noon and we both started feeling hungry.

As we had ordered sandwiches and muffins earlier in the morning at starbucks, we were not extremely hungry. So we decided to go some place nearby. We started walking under the umbrella and we reached the Delhi Highway.

As we weren't totally hungry we decided to just go for a butter naan and a paneer butter masala.

And my partner went for Laccha, the wheat variant of the regular naan.

The order wasn't seeming to be arriving  soon and we both ended up finishing up the amla and the mango pickle that was kept on the table.

And finally the order was served. Nothing much to comment on the food here, as the naan was like that of the other decent restaurants in Chennai. I will be writing a detailed blog post on the menu some other day in near future.

As I was doubtful whether I would get hungry again, I ordered another butter naan, as I felt it's much economic than ordering a sandwich in the cafes.

But I should say that the paneer butter masala was the best of the things I ever had in Chennai.


So here goes my verdict
Price: 4 / 5
Quantity: 4 / 5
Quality: 5 / 5
Ambience: 4 / 5
Speed: 4 / 5

Coffee tasting - Kenya at Starbucks

It was raining so badly and heard that my office is totally surrounded by water like an island. So we decided to work from Starbucks.

I wrapped myself in raincoat and helmet and started riding to starbucks, as I couldn't book a Ola cab.

After reaching the starbucks, Nisha, who works there asked us if we can join them for a coffee tasting session. I learnt that they do the coffee tasting every morning and this time two more staff joined us in our second coffee tasting at Starbucks.

Elam who was supposed to take us through the coffee tasting process, initially seemed to be shy but as he started speaking about the coffee, I found his enthusiasm reach its height.

He started briefing us about the "Kenya" coffee at Starbucks.

I'm not going to bother you people with the coffee tasting process, as I have described it already in my previous blog post on coffee tasting at Star Bucks. You can read the old post here..

The coffee had a citrus taste to it. And it tasted excellent than the Sumatra.

Now back to the details about "Kenya" that was shared by Elam.

The beans are from Africa and they were medium roasted ones. It's a seasonal and aged bean. I came to know that Starbucks uses only Arabica beans.

Now the Gyan about Arabica and Robusta varieties. The arabica beans are cultivated at high altitude whereas the robusta beans are cultivated at low altitude. The beans goes through a stringent quality check by the GCQ team ie., the Green Coffee Quality team.

He also spoke about the different coffee making processes at Starbucks.

• Bun machine
• Espresso Machine
• Filtering process
• French Press method

The Kenya beans are the only Arabica beans that tastes good for a cold coffee too.

 We had a nice second coffee tasting session at Starbucks and we really enjoyed it.

Would love to go through more such sessions and get to upgrade myself both in coffee tasting and to become a knowledged and a master coffee story teller like Elam.

Review - Dhaba Express, Nungambakkam

Decided to go again for Little Italy. .But remembered a friend telling me about the lunch buffet costing around just Rs.150 at dhaba express. .since it was in same building..I decided to give it a try 

My partner who initially preferred ala carte later decided to go for the buffet after seeing the array of food kept for the buffet. .

For the 150 bucks I gotta get d following

• Kadi pakoda
• Dhal makani
• Crispy cabbage fry
• Sambar
• Rice
• Boondhi dahi
• Raddish
• Onion vinegar
• Jalebi
• Roti
• Curd rice
• Pasta
• Veg pulao 

Ambience resembles punjabi theme. .I would suggest this place far anyone who would like to have a quick lunch in this busy office days and when not in a mood to wait for the order to be served fast,

Finally, it's Worth the money

Ambience 4 / 5

Price 5 / 5

Quantity 5/5
Quality 4/5

Review - The Madaras Kafe

It was raining cats and dogs outside and it was an awesome sunday noon. Was busy discussing business with my partner at Cafe Coffee Day in Ispahani Centre, Nungambakkam.

Around 4 pm, started feeling hungry. We were discussing a wide range of options for 30 minutes, on where to go for eating.

We were in double thoughts as to go out in rain or not.. As we were standing on the corridors and chatting, this place "The Madara Kafe" caught our eyes. I wasn't sure whether they serve food. So i decided to go check out the menu before going there. And the man standing behind the counter said that food is available, I asked for the menu. I was expecting to see just sandwiches and coffees. But when I saw Parottas and Dosas on the menu, I decided to eat there.

We settled for Corn Kichadi, Tomato Ghee Roast and veg Kothu Parotta.

Initially I was disappointed at the quantity of food that was served. man, that was too less for the price.

But to my surprise, when i started eating the served food, my taste palettes were giving a thumbs up. yea, the taste was good and it was more like a home made one.

The spiciness was perfect and I decided to go for another Kothu Parotta, as it was not filling enough.

Though the place is small and houses only 5 to 6 tables, the ambience was quite good. With pictures of Old Madras hanging on the walls, to go with the name of the restaurant.

My verdict:
Price: 3 / 5
Quality: 4 / 5
Quantity: 3 / 5
Service: 4 / 5
Speed: 3.5 / 5

But its worth the money given its location at Ispahani centre and the quality they serve.

Date with Vedhalam & Little Italy

Surprised my gal who is a die-hard fan of Thala Ajith with tickets to his new flick “Vedhalam”.  Theatre was jam-packed with Ajith’s fan club. Thala was awesome and we had a great time with audience going gaga over every punch dialogue.

She decided to treat me back with lunch over at Little Italy, Nungambakkam. She’s been telling me great things about pasta served there. . Visiting Litlle Italy has been on our agenda for a long time. As we both are big fans of pasta, she always suggested me to taste pasta in Little Italy.

Though my tummy was already full with popcorns and coke, I decided to go along with her. I have to thank her for the awesome pasta I had. She ordered for both of us.

Zuppa di Pomodoro

Garlic breads

Alla Zingara

Risotto ai Funghi Porcini

Zuppa di Pomodoro was a simple tomato soup with crunchy croutons.

I should say, these garlic breads are the best I have ever tasted in my life.  Would rate 5 star for the garlic bread here.

We wanted a spicy pasta and we went along with the waiter’s suggestion of Alla Zingara. We got exactly what we wanted and the pasta was with aubergine capsicum, olive and cheese in a classic tomato sauce. The sauce was perfect and blended well with the spaghetti.

My gal went for Risotto Ai Funghi Porcini. The risotto was a brown rice with imported porcini mushrooms, cream and parmesan cheese. I loved the risotto’s tasty and aromatic flavor which was due to the presence of the king of mushrooms: porcini. 

One of the best places in the city to have authentic Italian food! The rates are a little on the higher end but the quantity was more than enough to fill the stomach. The ambience is awesome to have a quiet and intimate lunch.

I would suggest this place to people who want to try Italian food for the first time, italian food lovers like me. I also suggest this place as the goto restaurant when you are hungry!!!!