Yesterday was my wedding anniversary. We happened to be at Chennai and my wife suggested that we try 'Manjal' at Poes garden for our dinner. Manjal has been making a noise in social media with visits by many film stars, cricketers and politicians...
From the moment we stepped in, we were welcomed with a smile and immediately guided to a seat. The ambience was very soothing and authentic... The ordering was unique here.. The staff present you with the entire platter of non vegetarian dishes that makes your selection easy. By the time you are done with the selection of dishes, they serve you the complementary mutton soup! The service here is what impressed me the most... extremely quick and prompt, always attentive and helpful. Everything we ordered came in a jiffy!
The food did not disappoint... it was moderately spicy and well cooked. But i will still rate the "messes" of Madurai far above in taste. Nonetheless we enjoyed the evening of good food and even better service.
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| Seafood platter |
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| The full mutton and chicken platter in display to select ! |
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| The complementary mutton boneless soup |
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| brain fry |
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| Seer fish puttu |
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| Crab lollipop |
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| Idiyappam and stew |
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| Elaneer payasam |
We started with Prawn lollipops as starter... followed with Brain fry and Seer fish puttu. I really loved the seer fish puttu. We wanted to keep the main course light and went with Idiyappam, idly and egg dosai. All of them were good. Unfortunately they did not have any choice of desserts. The elaneer payasam was totally watery and below average.
On the whole a very worthy place to eat. The pricing was very reasonable. Lot more to try hopefully in our next visit...
