This place is Temporarily Closed now.

One of the best restaurants to get authentic south Indian food. Great ambience!

Restaurant now shutdown or permanently closed.

Amazing food. Service was a little lax (they actually forgot my order) but the taste of the food more than made up for it. One of the very few places that believes in not having aerated drinks on its menu and provides a variety of healthy juice choices instead. A "Must visit" if you are in Chennai for a visit.

A place with a good ambience and good food. Firstly they have a valet parking here and the staff here are quite courteous. The food is of great taste & variety and quality is top notch. Its a must try experience. Next is the ambience which is quite simple still elegant. The table decorations as cutlery placements as elegant too. This is my experience, actually my friend had to wait for me for some time, on seeing they also provided her a papad snack, which may be simple but shows their care towards their customers. (For Veg ) : The only draw back is the Veg biriyani was a quite sweet and gravy component is little less. Otherwise if you are a chettiand cuisine lover, this is a must try place. My Picks : 1. Must try : Vazha poo kozhai urundai and Panagam. 2. Starter : Crispy Guntur corn. 3. Mains : Any Biryani on the carte.

Nice food !! Ambiance super !! Customer friendly !!

Tried chicken 65, mutton muphuza with coin parota. Delicious and nice serving. They gave us complimentary papads with Mexican sauce.

There is no operation at this place. It's permanently closed.Please don't come here and waste your time better check for any other restaurant near by. For your information

Reaching there: Sterling road is one the busiest roads in Chennai, and a restaurant like this will not go unnoticed. This is a one way and you might want to slow down your vehicle in the beginning of the road. Very close to Loyola college and easy to find on google maps. Ambience: As soon as I entered all I noticed was the interiors. They have good wood work done. The restaurant is spacious and has two floors, the ground and the first. The tables are well apart from each other, so won't feel that the place is cluttered. The AC is really good which is important in a city like chennai and when you are going to be eating spicy food. Service: The people at the restaurant are friendly and ask for suggestions as to what can be improved. With a really long menu like theirs, they help out people chose their dishes according to the liking, taste and spice level Food: Best South Indian dishes filled with flavours. The restaurant sources their meat and seafood from vendors to make sure the meat the customers eat is healthy. You will also not find seafood priced as low as theirs anywhere in the city. Forget fish, but the minute you think of prawns of crab, it would be priced anywhere between Rs 300 to Rs 600. What I loved about the restaurant was they said "We won't feed the customers what we wouldn't feed our family". Every single item on their menu is customized according to the customers even when it is extremely crowded.

Food was typical Chennai style. Very good service and attention to customer questions. Was worth the wait and people can try once. Not a huge seating area so waiting time can be more during busy days.

We had our friends meet here... They were able to accommodate us immediately... The ambience was good initially and we were seated in the front area... We had Nandu Rasam and it was spicy for our palate.. The starters were all extremely good... The Scotch eggs and Chicken ka thakkali were the crowd favourite... With such high expectations we went on to our main course.. The Mutton chukka dosai and coin barotta were really good... The chicken dosai and biriyani was okay... My friend wanted to try the Kal dosai and it was excellent... Then we thought we would try the desert sampler... The coconut souffle and the Jack fruit desert were really good... Others were good too... All the servers were given aliases and they were courteous and helpful... The only thing which was uncomfortable was that there weren't any AC units in the front area and halfway through out meal were sweating... The small ones started getting uncomfortable too... This probably was an issue with only the front area but this needs to be addressed too as it completely spoils the dining experience for anyone seated there... The bottom line is that they serve good food and is definitely a must try for Chennaites...

Absolutely loved my experience here. They serve amazing authentic south Indian food. Every dish that I tried was absolutely delicious and honestly I could'nt find any fault with it. Must try dishes are - mutton kair katti kola which is basically mutton mince and variety of spices made into a ball and deep fried. Prawns, vanjaram fish fry were also really good. Service and cost is also good and reasonable.

the food sered here was really good and authentic. we tried : **karuveppillai chicken (this was like a semi shredded chicken with very unique flavours) **naatu kozhi fry **chicken thalassery biryani (biryani was good) **rice **chettinad chicken gravy(i have had a better chicken then this, this could have been a bit better) **chicken kothu parotha (i really liked it as it was my first time trying a kotthu parotha , its like a shredded parota with chicken and egg stir-fried in it)

Good. All the dishes were delicious except few. Mutton kola was so good. Both chicken and Mutton Briyani was good. The unlimited non veg thali was okayish coz it's too costly. Prawn we ordered was not nice, it was half cooked. Drinkshakes were so yummy. Gulkand shake was awesome.They have changed the menu. Many Dishes were not there in the menu like before. The service was excellent. Overall a good place to have a South Indian cuisine.

The food is so good here. If you want to try authentic south indian food this place can be the best one. Of all the dishes we have ordered Karuvae Pillai milagu chicken dry was an awesome one it was so spicy but still the best dish we had there. Briyani is also good but not that great. Nice restaurant!!!

Delayed service and not worth for cost

Improve vennum

Hyped for ordinary food and very pricey for nothing.

Not bad

Ok

Nothing special...

Hoŕrible

Worst hotel.. Does not looks like professional

Delicious food...

So expensive worst service nothing matched with menu card

food is tasty.value for money

We ordered koi chettinad chicken and rice ... It was damn tasty. Chicken lovers MUST TRY. ?

Maplai is good theme based Restaurant with unconventional presentation yet sticking to your roots kind of food places I’ve visited, The Restaurant itself is well situated and the decor is not what you would expect before you enter it, it’s abstract and I like it. We ordered (I) Madurai Mutton Biriyani, It was dry and seemed old food, not worth the 320 price tag if came with, was totally turned off by its taste (II) Ambur Chicken Biriyani Classic Ambur Style and was good as I concur which is 269.00 (III) Malabar Karimeen pollichattu, Its the saviour of our order, Tangy and right amount of spiced fried fish and worth of its 400.00 bucks (IV)Maplai Mutton chukka Chuck was good and we would have liked it if it was served hot and in the beginning (you call them starters for a reason) and the Mapalai’s Jigarthanda This thing was heaven, Takes you to the dreamy world when you are sweating like a steam cooker at around 40 degrees heat of Tamil Nadu Our bill was around ₹1700 Service was good, But food itself took pretty long to come and there is no attention to the customer once it’s placed at table I guess we had to serve the dishes our selves, not that we couldn’t but we expected it’s a service restaurant. A bit vague in maintaining order/staff decorum. Overall I would come back if the food is ‘Served’ in proper intervals, not just the presentation even taste/Quality is important and keep company to your customers needs please

I would say a 'must try' place. A decent restuarant with nice south indian and a light kerala touch in some dishes. Nanari sarbath, maplai chicken 65, nandu rasam were awesome. Nice ambient and at a very prime location, just front gate junction of Loyolla college. You will have vallet parking for easy convenience.

You get extremely flavorful, delicious food here - hands down one of the best thaali's I've had in the city. Non veg options are a plenty, so if you're really confused just get the biriyani or the thaali. Super reasonably priced too.

Try this who likes spicy foods. Great choice

Yummy food..good flavour. must taste karuppatti tiramisu...

One of the best Restaurants around. Quantity Food,Pricing is also decent. But need to wait for long in prime timings

Go for the kola urundai, yummy and try all dishes except fish fry(pomfret) which I ordered, I think that particularly was waste of money

Taste is awesome but rate is slightly higher

Great place for foodie . Try their Andhra chicken for spicy lovers .

Food is great, service not so good

Waste of money.biriyani not that much taste.They used not fresh chicken.may be very old chicken.smell very bad when we chewing.over priced.not at all worth.today we have taken biriyani virundu and veg thali.both are waste.pl.don't go there after reading these fake reviews.

South Indian varieties properly covered in their menu. Very tempting

Good

Taste is good

closed under renovation - should have mentioned in website

Expensive and average food

Yummy food

Costly

Tasty food

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Average

Let me put it this way, the ambience is phenomenal but the food is mediocre, especially for the price. This was a pure case of judging a book by the cover and then regretting it. Food was OK, many items were unavailable even at 730PM. But the portions were generous but nothing was exceptional or viable at the price point.

Great

Good food, clean, hygienic and not to heavy on the wallet... Would highly recommend the non-veg food hear!

Not tasty foods

Good ambience and good food