Hotel Junior Kuppanna

I have been visiting Junior Kuppanna (ECR branch) ever since it opened at the end of January this year. I thought it is time for me to share my thoughts. Junior Kuppanna is located at a very accessible place - on the main ECR in Neelankarai, next to Cream Stone. The cuisine is Tamil Erode style and Junior Kuppanna brings authentic Tamil non-vegetarian food with a fine dining experience. Probably 60-70% of the menu is non-vegetarian and the rest is vegetarian. The food is served like a traditional Tamil feast - on a banana leaf. Now on the food itself. I have the vegetarian meals here regularly. The regular vegetarian lunch comprises sambar, tamarind kozhambu, rasam, two vegetable dishes, two types of dhals, curd and sweet and appalam. All these are unlimited. The sambar has a lot of dhal and it is delicious. It is way better than the sambar offered at other restaurants by a mile - it is my favourite sambar. All the other dishes in the lunch are excellent - I look forward to the cabbage poriyal, the potato poriyal and the avial. The thing I love about all the items in lunch is that the spice level is perfect - it is neither too spicy, nor is it bland. In many restaurants, they just overdo the spices that the taste of the chillies overpowers the taste of the vegetables and the sambar. But the spice level is so perfect here that they enhance the taste. I normally have lunch with an omelette, which is wonderfully made, with onion, chillies, and tomato. There are other kinds of egg preparations in the menu, if you like other preparations more. In the non-vegetarian lunch, we get non-vegetarian gravy (chicken / mutton) and a full-boiled egg. I haven't tried that yet, but it is quite popular among customers. Out of the other items in the menu I have tried, I love the two kinds of dosa - wheat dosa and Erode dosa. The Erode dosa looks like an Oothappam, but is light and fluffy. I normally pair them with sambar (am so addicted to the delicious sambar), coconut chutney and tomato thokku. The tomato thokku is divine and amazing and wonderfully delicious. I also love the Kothu parotta - it is delicious and taste wonderfully well with the onion raitha. You can try it with gravy too, if you like. The regular parotta or the veechu parotta with chukka tastes wonderful. There is mushroom chukka and mutton chukka, which is quite popular. The chicken and mutton biriyanis are also quite popular. There are also Chinese style items in the menu, like Gobi Manchurian, Gobi 65, Chicken 65 etc. I haven't tried the fish dishes yet, but I have heard that the Vanjiram fish tawa fry is amazing. The dessert menu has sweets - the carrot halwa is amazing - and icecreams and milkshakes. The icecreams and milkshakes are wonderful and delicious and the black currant icecream is divine. The Falooda is wonderful too. There is also coffee and tea, if you prefer a hot beverage after a meal, and buttermilk if you want to quench your thirst. The staff is very friendly and warm and the customer service is wonderful. Vignesh who is part of the managerial team is one of the finest managers I have met, and other members of his team like Sahaya Mary, Kumaran, Balamurugan, Gunasekaran, Chandru and others are warm and friendly and efficient with their service and make the customers happy. There is ample parking space for patrons - that is one more wonderful thing about the restaurant. The restaurant is crowded on Sunday afternoons as people from all over Chennai come here for a sumptuous Sunday lunch. If you want to try delicious Tamil regional cuisine, especially non-vegetarian cuisine, do give Junior Kuppanna a try.

Well readers, recently I have visited this Chettinad restaurant called Junior Kuppanna in ECR. For someone who has a taste for spicy and tasty food, this is the right place to eat

The restaurant is on the ECR, so easy to find. Parking is available. The staff were courteous. Only one concern was that the vegetarian and non vegetarian sections were not clearly marked. I started with Mutton Paya soup which was light and full of flavor. 
For starters we ordered Naadu  Kozi Fry, Pepper chicken fry, Prawn fry, Kaadai roast and Mutton pepper fry.  Among all the dishes, I must mention chicken pepper fry and mutton soup which were exceptional in taste. Also the team should look into how to reduce odor of the fish preparations as after first time due to strong smell of raw fish I couldn't bear it.For the main dish since we had gone there in group we could taste many varieties. The rice was good in texture and taste. So were the naans and mutton dosa. Only thing is that there was no forks or knives on the table for us to use. Every time we had to ask for it. Overall a good experience for us and would recommend a visit to taste the coastal dishes.

Probably one among the very few pure vegetarians who tried out the Junior Kuppanna branch in ECR. The menu had its share of vegetarian items including Veg soup, Gobi 65, Chilli Paneer, Butter and Garlic Naan and Paneer side dish and a couple of juices&sodas. The food was decent and the starters in particular was very nice. My favourite was the Chilli Paneer.
The Naan was soft and went well with the Gobi Masala. Compared to the non veg items, the Veg portion was probably 5%,so if they can add few more items to the list, it can make a big difference to the experience as well.

it is a very underrated place but provided great service and the food was really tasty and appetizing.looking forward to visiting this place again

Not value for money. Biriyani tastes very good. Starters quantity is too less.
Service is decent enough. Ambience needs to be maintained better.

I give it a 5 star though it's a little bit pricy because of the taste just like home. The biryani which I had reminded me of my mother. The serva /gravy given tasted just like my home chicken curry and was amazing. The quality is at it's best.

Visited several branches and felt the taste was good comparitively. Ambience and food was good . Attentive to customers . But dint have any fresh juice in afternoon (extremely hot weather) which made us very disappointed.

Good food along with food ambience. Service by Mr. Sathyamoorthy was very courteous. Loved it

Was reluctant to visit this restaurant as first, but boy, oh boy, they didn't disappoint - not one but. Madurai Mutton Dry is some serious flagship stuff - Order it ASAP if you're reading this. Pair it with Parottas - Normal/Ghee/Bun/whatever variety you prefer. Also, this restaurant also had relatively better interiors and a cool store-front. Carrot Halwa was so soothing.

nice experience and foods was good Indian style taste and quite disappointed with the person who took our order they didn't mention the food which order is not in stock and he added himself with alternative without asking us.

There is no fault to find with this restaurant. Tops on quality, taste and freshness, superb preparations, one and all. There is no dish they make that one can criticize or dislike. It's a winner in ECR. Their sea food menu is stunning!!