My most favourite place is Thondil ❤️ I would heartfully suggest this place to anyone who asks. Fish and the Tiger prawns have a special place in my heart. The cooking style,the ambience and the service makes this place the best one to dine out.
Note: I have been there for four times🙈😃
We love a good tawa fish fry, and this is a good grilled chilli fish with lots of flavoured masala 🤤
Cost : 330
Taste : 3/5
Ambience: 4/5
We know that people everywhere crazy about Biryani, that too especially in Chennai. Today We are here with THOONDIL SPL FISH BIRYANI on @thoondil_ecr residing at Paniyur, and the most impressive things is got it for Rs.330/-
Especially rice, fish and masala blended at perfect proportion and cooked to get the most yummiest flavour 🤤
Taste : 4/5
Ambience: 4/5
Ambience is the highlight! All see foods were awesome. Hot and sour chicken soup is a must try.
Thoondil is so far the best restaurant in Chennai for sea food. The ambience was great with outdoor seating under a hip roof and swans roaming around you. Good for a group of friends and the service was quick enough. There are fishes and crabs for display that can be picked and will be prepared fresh. The dishes were all spicy and we loved the flavour. Must try items are crab soup, full fish with BBQ sauce, pepper squid and fish curry with rice. Not a budget one, but worth spending for the good sea-food.
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Thoondil is an offbeat place away from the city.
Location: Few kms away from sholinganallur-Ecr road towards Mahabalipuram
Ambience: Fantastic ambience with cool huts around with plenty of trees and fountains which added beauty to the place.
Parking: will have parking issues though as there is no big parking space outside the restaurant but like a normal space like anyother ECR restaurants
Food: the place is famous for sea foods and it has plenty of options for the same
We can choose the sea food option from the freezer and they can weigh and estimate the price for us.
Following are the food we tasted:
1. Tawa fish
We chose a fish koduva fish from the freezer waiter estimated it to be 800rs for a full medium sized fish weighing around 400grams
Taste: OMG the taste was just awesome🤩🤩😍 we loved it. Texture, masala taste and the decor was simply awesome. (Definitely go for it guys)
2. Special meal which had nethili fry, crab gravy, fish curry, paapad rasam, rice, curd costed to 380rs
Which we felt was okayish fish curry and rasam though was tasty (doubtful to order the same next time)
3. Chicken ghee roast
It had Tamilnadu Desi masala blended with ghee (not mangalorian type) but it worked well with us taste was awesome.
4. Mutton Biryani
Biryani's taste was very nice but not the mutton inside it which felt raw. (Will not order this next time may be a different Biryani definitely)
5. Egg fried rice
So Bland and didn't have a enough flavour of the other egg fried rice which I had tasted before. 190rs ( will not try the next time)
Total bill costed around 1960rs for these 5 dishes which was bit higher fur the dishes we ordered. But overall a very good dining experience. 🤩
Very nice food..nice ambience..you can select live fish n crab..kids enjoy seeing live fish, duck also roaming around...apart from ambience..food is equally tasty...try prawns ,fish finger etc.... really nice n fresh... go there with family . Definitely you are gonna like...
Starting with the Ambience, The place was pretty good, quiet and peaceful. I went there like 2pm and there were no much crowd. I had the squid masala fry and the prawn butter masala with butter naan and it was delicious. I would highly recommend this place if you wanna taste sea foods.
Excellent Ambience under haystack roof .... we ordered prawn fry fish fry Mutton Biryani and Fried rice good food
Perfect sea food experience!
I wanted to taste live sea food for a long time. I visited this place on a one fine festive day and it was open. I had a delicious experience!
Live full fish chettinadu style - pomfret was my choice and they deep fried a whole pomfret and tossed in a masala sauce. It was very delicious and amazing experience. It tasted so good.
Squid tawa fry, squid was deep roasted in tawa with more masalas. The taste was too good to handle.
Roti and fish curry was a usual experience. Fish curry was not so good. It was upto the level.
Ambience was chilling. Outskirts of city, peaceful and calm ambience and nice place to chill out too.
Overall a best sea food restaurant to try.
Being a sea food lover, Thoondil has always been among my favorites.
The restaurant is known for its ambience and it's flavours of uplifting the sea foods.
Review on the food we tasted:
The mixed veg fried rice was top notch and too heavy for a single person.
Kadamba fry was yum but it's kind of chewy which is tiresome.
Chilli fish is my favorite as we don't get the orthodox fish smell which isn't appetising.
I would always recommend thoondil when you are not worried about spending once in a while and this could be a Treat when you decide you go on a long drive after a tiring day 🙂
Stumbled upon this cute cafe and I was awestruck by the ambience. 💯💫 It was so cool and the Christmas decor made the spot look so lively. 🎄 The service was remarkable and I felt at ease. This spot is a must try for dessert lovers. They have really delicious desserts. I tried their Tres Leches and it still has my heart 🍰 I also had their pizza and apple mojito. It is definitely worth it. ❣️ Absolutely in love with this place 😍 The price was also quite reasonable compared to the spots with similar ambiance.
A good continental restaurant with a part of Desi flavours dishes also. Normally it takes 20 minutes wait and 20 wait for getting ordered dishes. It's worth to have a dinner here. Good professional staff.
Situated on the main road of ECR
The ambience is really nice. Must visit.
Customer service is really good. Staff are kind
Went for the coffee☕️ since I heard it's good here, but I was a bit disappointed when they said hot coffee items weren't available at that time.
Must try: Creamy tender Coconut mousse🥥 (coconut pudding), Nutella cheesecake,
Try Pizzas 🍕 too
I wouldn't recommend the milkshakes (wasn't up to my liking)
Parking is available
Have been here thrice . I’m actually from Purasaiwalkam, just travelled 25km to have the tender coconut mousse 🤌🏻❤️. Definitely a must try , all three times I tried only the mousse & its completely worth it . Also tried cheese cake last time was also good . Ambience of the place it amazing. One gram worthy place .
Visited it for the first time. The food is good and reasonably priced! The caramel custard was outstanding and the watermelon salad really delicious. The veg pie we tried was good too. A good dining experience!
The place is small but atmosphere is nice and the dishes are good and unique. The service is good. Desserts are my favourite.
I visited there around 8 pm on Monday. Even though the weekday, the restaurant was crowded. I understood this is a popular restaurant.
I ordered Grilled Beef Steak and Punpukin and Broccoli Soup.
Beef was so juicy, and I feel the quality of meat is the same level as the bangalore famous restaurant that I have visited. Soup is also very good and creamy.
Staff service was good. The restaurant was lively because it was crowded. (A little bit noisy for me...) but by considering food quality and the staff service, I can recommend you to visit.
Ordered below for one person it was enough. For your reference.
Grilled Beef Steak : 520inr
Punpukin and Broccoli Soup : 220inr
Decent place situated right on the roadside with space for parking.
It can get crowded . Food was good .
Can't really call it a dessert bar as the dessert options are limited but the dishes available are good .
Pastries like muffins are also available and are really good .
The service is also decent and food came in pretty quick .
Overall a good place .
A little overpriced but the ambience of the restaurant fills up for it. Tried Mutton Chukka and Chicken Pot Pie.
The Chicken Pot Pie was a little heavy for my liking but was delicious and filling. Mutton Chukka is a must try, it just melts into your mouth.
It is not wheelchair accessible. Muffins and cupcakes and other deserts also available.
Must visit place for their ambience and food...
Such a lovely and beautiful spot to spend time with your loved ones. Have a happy meal...!❣️
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