Family Restaurant A/C — Restaurant in Tamil Nadu

My uncle and I visited Family restaurant at Pichavaram for the second time in November 2022. Sankara (Red snipper fish) fry is so crispy!! Tiger prawns tawa (cooked in 'dosa' frying pan) felt like a barbecue! They have used very less oil to cook fish. So healthy and delectable! The gravy of squid fry is delicious! We had the best crab fry of our lives at 'Family restaurant, Pichavaram'! So meaty and sweet! So good! The rice is provided with 3 types of currys (two varieties of fish curry, crab curry, dry fish curry) in addition to sambhar and rasam! The rice was also so good! The akkas at the restaurant are so helpful and congenial! Akkas explained us how they cooked these fish. Homely environment. Pichavaram is a very windy and cool place. So one doesn't require any air conditioning. We reached Pichavaram via bus from Chidambaram bus stand. There is a bus at 1.50PM and 3PM. (They have bus services in other times as well. This is the service we used in the last two times). Rs.14 per person. Government buses offers free ticket for women! We will highly recommend 'Family restaurant, Pichavaram'! We are looking forward to...

Just wondering how people giving 5 star to this place. As a family we visited this place for lunch and served meals. Except fish curry, everything was bummer. You can taste worst sandbar (99% watery) and rasam not doing any justice to the name. We need to pay 30 rs for curd which was very old and salty.

Coming back to appetizers, we ordered chicken fry, prawns and fish fry. Prawn n fish fry was good. But pricey for the quantity and place. For VEG people, I strongly recommend not to try this place and it’s not worth it. Also you better check the price before ordering it.

They need to improvise in serving customers. I personally get they are money minded as only items with INR 100 or 150+ Will be served. If you order omelette or egg, they say upfront big NO in front of your face. Many People eating here just because it’s close to pichavaram boat ride. But need genuine feedback on this one. I normally appreciate and recommend home foods. But this is too business minded and need to improve quality.

Problem is we have only limited food options there. So...

It's the very very worst restaurant I have seen in my life, one lady is found like the kunda of the restaurant talking very very rudely and she don't know to how to talk with the customers. The food menu is not satisfied, no side dish for non-veg meals, all are extra charge. I stayed 30mts in the meantime 3 customers are making a qural with the lady about Billings.

I ordered vanjeram fish and she surve the stating vanjeram but i idintifed this not the vanjeram fish and she told ok ok this not the one and taken away the dish and after 5 mts surved another fish and states that this is vanjeram and i know very well about all fishes and I say this not vanjeram but she supplied something different fish and states that this is vanjeram and cheting me. But I'm not arguing with her.

I attach her photo.

Pls don't go to this...