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Restaurants · Chennai
Where to eat in Chennai — from market lunches to tasting menus
Chennai's eating-out scene, edited. Sit-down restaurants worth crossing the city for: regional kitchens, modern Indian, the legacy continental rooms, and the chef-led places opening this year. Long lunches and table-for-two dinners alike.
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No 6 Mayor Ramanathan Salai, Spur Tank road, Sulaiman Zackria Avenue, Egmore, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600031, India
First Floor, 37, Bheemanna Garden St, Sriram Colony, Alwarpet, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600018, India
ITC Grand Chola, Little Mount, Guindy, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600032, India
2/520, Sandeep Avenue, Sakthimoorthiamman Nagar, Neelankarai, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600115, India
102/82, Gopathy Narayana Rd, T. Nagar, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600017, India
65, Ormes Rd, Kilpauk, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600010, India
First Floor SEG-ANC-01, 379F+X4G CMRL Government Estate, Metro Station, Anna Salai, near Omandurar Hospital, Mount Road, Chintadripet, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600002, India
2, Bhagirathi Ammal St, Rama Kamath Puram, T. Nagar, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600017, India
New #40, Old #71-A, B Ramachandra Adithanar Road, flat 3a, 79, B Ramachandra Adithanar Rd, Gandhi Nagar, Adyar, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600020, India
101, 6th St, D Block, Annanagar East, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600102, India
Every city has its food clichés — and the gap between the tourist-trail restaurant and the place where chefs actually eat is wide. We've kept this list to the latter: restaurants we'd book for a birthday, recommend to a vegetarian guest, or send a client to between meetings.
Top restaurants in Chennai take reservations 2–4 weeks ahead for prime weekend slots. Lunch is almost always easier than dinner. Most kitchens close between 3 PM and 7 PM; the late-night exceptions are noted below.
Vegetarian and Jain options are widely available across Indian and pan-Asian menus in Chennai; vegan menus are reliable at modern places, less so at legacy restaurants. Allergens — gluten, nuts, shellfish — are best flagged at reservation time, not on arrival.
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