Popular Restaurants in Chennai

Chennai offers and array of eating establishments including a variety of popular restaurants, price ranges and ambience. They range from street stalls, tea kadais, fast food centers, western fast food centers, food courts, coffee shops, traditional vegetarian and non vegetarian restaurants, bakeries to exclusive specialty establishments. The popular restaurants in Chennai include a number of restaurants that serve a variety of Tamil, Andhra and Kerala vegetarian and non-vegetarian fare. Many of these restaurants have nowadays diversified and offer other Indian and Indianized Chinese dishes as well.

One could find popular restaurants in Chennai representing virtually every state of India in the Chennai restaurants. International tastes such as Continental, South Asian, Japanese, European and Persian are also available in select popular restaurants in Chennai. The wayside eateries and dhabas are another cheaper option. Almost all the main streets and market areas in the city have such wayside eateries. Dhabas are mostly concentrated along highways and major junctions. One more aspect; unlike in North India, dhabas are a bit costly in Chennai. Majority of the popular restaurants in Chennai caters to the South Indian palette. You can find native Tamil Nadu, Chettinad, Kerala, Andhra and Kannada cuisines here. A predominantly native Tamil population and those from the southern states, which outnumbers people from the other Indian states, may be the reason why there are so much of South Indian restaurants in the city. You can find a number of popular restaurants in Chennai offering North Indian dishes as well. There are many Punjabi dhabas, Gujarati restaurants, and exclusive Mughalai eat outs - that specialize in pure Persian and dishes of the princely era - in various parts of the city.

Continental, South Asian, and European delicacies are mostly available in the popular restaurants in Chennai or the top end hotels. A few Malaysian and Thai restaurants in some areas of the city are also available here.