My Favorite (and Must-Try) here are Kola Urundai and All Kinds of Biryani. Everything is good here.
This place won my heart! A little expensive for a frugal person like me, but who doesn’t like a lil indulgence?
Located on Nungambakkam, Maplai is a fine dining restaurant with ample parking space and a pleasant ambience. The staff here is very courteous and helped us with the menu as it was our first visit. All the dishes we tried were good but the show stopper was Guntur Prawns! It was excellent! Highly recommend it!
Kudos to the management! Hope they maintain the taste; it was truly a delight to my taste buds🤡
PS: the biriyani here has won many awards! Just saying 🤓
The opening hours of the hotel are given as 12:00, they made us wait for 20 minutes outside the main gate. Wherein they could see that people are standing outside but still they behaved as if they did not see. Once we entered most of the items were missing. I would suggest either they should atleast mention it on Zomato or they should keep it shut.
The food was exceptionally good and Linga’s service was really great.
Food was spicy... But different taste.. and very decent price... Service was good.... And polite staff...
Overall good........................................
New place new verities of food,Maplai food was good except mutton Biryani all which r in pics it was good
Stopped in for lunch. Food was very good but a bit costly. Very good service. Enjoyed the meal. Worth the visit. Will surely recommend 😁😁😁
Heard about maplai restaurant through one of my friend & was told that it would be very busy during weekends. So planned for a weekday to visit and went on a Tuesday.
The food was cooked and served well. We ordered Mutton Chukka - spicy and cooked well, Prawn egg podimas - only egg was there with lots of onion & prawn was not visible or tastable (not happy with that, it costed 150), Ambur chicken briyani - taste was good it's a regular briyani, finally ordered Panagam & Rose Milk - that alone made me to write a review on them. Rose milk was at it's best. Panagam was equally good.
Initially, we asked for soup by reading to the zomato menu (menu here is not updated) they don't serve soup now. We were informed that soup is available only with thali.
Will definitely munch out their other dishes next time.
Tried maplai during Chennai visit . Quite a decent ambience coming to the food the food is tasty with exception to certain dishes . Tried the tomato jeeraga soup which is a tomato sauce soup with extra sugar added to it .. the kovai podi paniyaram was yummy as well as chicken ka thakali but again the set back came from another dish butter fried chicken which was bland ...🤨the kozhi chettinad as well as the Mutta kuzhambe went well with the soft tiny coin porotta . Did try the rose milk and panagam..... value for money and tasty food with some exceptional dishes 🤔
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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.
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!!!
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.
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)
Deepak Manoj Nanda Kumar
+4
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.
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Food and Flavour: 4.5/5
Service: 5/5
Ambience & Parking: 4/5
Have been hearing about this restaurant for a while, finally got a chance this weekend to taste it. It is on the corner of a junction, so it is really tricky, for the first timers, to get into it. A surprise to all of us was the name tags of the waiters. It was all named after blockbuster tamil movies. Our guy was named Pokkiri… :D
We started with Vazhapoo Kola Urundai. To be precise, I can eat that forever.
We then ordered Veg Thali and Veg Biryani Virundhu (Note: Both are unlimited). It was a hard choice, as both were extremely good. I have never seen a place serving unlimited biryani on a Thali.
The Veg Thali starts with
1. Soup, Panagam and Neer Moor
2. A traditional main course served with parotta and vadagam (Sambar was too good)
3. Payasam and Falooda ice cream
A special mention about the vadagam, it comes with mayonnaise. The combination was out of the world.
The Biryani Virundhu was a simple straight forward menu,
1. Gobi 65
2. Parotta & side dish
3. Thalassery Biryani & side dish
They could have added a dessert to this Thali, to make it complete. We still gave a try and asked them, and they were generous to serve us with Falooda ice cream.
I have never tasted this variety biryani till now, but I really enjoyed it (Note: You can mention the spice level so that the waiter would adjust the masala and the rice ratio).
On the whole, a truly Maplai experience and I would definitely go back .
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.
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