ITC Grand Chola in Chennai is one helluva massive and magnificent hotel. We were in Chennai for one night and a day, and frankly, found the time to be too short to enjoy all the frills we were entitled to at the Chola. We couldn’t even make it to the […]
Why do they call the place T Nagar? They should call it Saree Nagar!!! With the number of saree shops that are there, and the number of buyers brimming over the shops and into the streets, T Nagar in Chennai truly deserves to be called Saree Nagar. Truly! Had been […]
For our trip to Pondicherry, we arrived in Chennai just in time for lunch. Had jotted down Ananda Bhavan, Saravana Bhavan in our list of must-eat places in Chennai. And since, post lunch, I wanted to go for my first round of saree shopping, we zeroed on in the Ananda […]
35 kms from Chennai, there is a famous Crocodile Farm on the East Coast Road (ECR. Read Drive from Chennai to Puducherry via ECR). It has one of the largest collections of crocodiles in Asia and also a huge collection of snake venom used for anti-venoms and medicines – must […]
Your Puducherry itinerary is incomplete if you have not allotted a detour for Mahabalipuram. It falls somewhere midway between the Chennai and Puducherry East Coast road, 60 kms from Chennai, to be precise. We turned towards Mahabalipuram on our way back from Puducherry. Reached the temple town at about 11am, […]
Dindigul Thalappakatti has been a popular chain of Chettinad Cuisine since 1957 with their Biryani, Mutton dishes (including Liver) a hit with locals and tourists alike. Since they had an outlet next to my hotel, it was a no brainer to have dinner there. A decent-sized clean restaurant, with basic […]
Speak of South Indian food and Saravana Bhavan comes to your mind immediately. “It’s as iconic a restaurant chain can ever become”, says my husband ( a to-the-core lover of non-vegetarian food) about this vegetarian place. Started in 1981, the chain now boasts on 29 outlets in India and about […]