Chennai Express

Stopped by for lunch today and had a vegetarian thali with chettinad chicken. The quality, authenticity, taste are all great and will bring me back (or to their new location in Fleet). The only caveat is that one item in the thali seemed like it has been sitting in the fridge for a while and was quite tough to eat, but yet tasted good. Everything else was good if not great. It is a relatively basic restaurant, so not somewhere I’d chose for a date night, but if you need a South Indian fix, this is the place to go!

I tried the dosa. It was amazing and the chutney with the dosa were good too. Sambar was fantastic as well. I tried the very reputed Gongura curry but unfortunately I was disappointed as it was not the best mutton curry or close to real gongura curry from Andhra. Otherwise the dosa was fab, good service, and ambience. I can tell it’s a busy place as was bustling. Overall, I enjoyed the place and food.

Honestly, the food did not taste great. It could be better. The oothappam was too soaked in ghee and smelled. For this price, it could have been better. But the service was very good. They were really helpful. They checked back for our feedback and reassured that they would do better next time. The ambience was also very good.

My husband and I ate here today and we had a 5 course tasting menu and it was fantastic, we were able to try a little of a lot of the dishes and really try the menu, it was so much fun and we really enjoyed every bite. Actually I'm actually upset I couldn't eat everything because it was just that good. The flavours were fantastic, the food was perfect and just amazing and the staff were friendly and attentive, they have such pride in their food, and were very friendly, I can't fault anything, I highly recommend everything, especially the tasting menu. It was a real treat for the taste buds. We will be back.