The Right Place — Restaurant in Tamil Nadu

Located ideally on the busy intersection of G N Chetty road and Dr Nair rd, The Residency offer the locals and visitors to Chennai, an escape from the hustle and bustle of the city with multiple restaurants on premises. I visited the right place for lunch with some of my school mates of 86 batch.

The restaurant is small and can seat in total about 30 guests. We were a group of 10 with 5 stand ups and were seated right near the entrance. There's no restrooms inside the restaurant but there's one in the lobby of the hotel. The RR is clean and well maintained though there's only one toilet stall and a few urinals.

The restaurant is both vegetarian and non-vegetarian with more options for the latter. However their vegetarian fare is great. We had different soups, starters, main course and desserts. The tomato soup was good though I didn't get a taste of freshness and great flavors of the ingredients. The platter is good though almost every item like cauliflower, veggies kebab roll, paneer tikka tasted a bit saltier, except of course for the button mushrooms. We had to order 4 platters as it was not enough for 10 people. We had bisibelebath, veggie pulao, rumali roti with aloo gobi and everything was good. The BBB was pretty nicely done and we ordered a second helping. We finished it off with some shakes and ice cream and pistachios ice cream is great. We also had a cake to celebrate the January borns in the group.

The waiters are exceptionally well behaved, courteous and well mannered though these youngsters could smile more. They put up with all the requests and idiosyncrasies of the motley crowd.

The prices seemed reasonable given its location at the 3 star hotel in the center of the city with parking...

It is on the left side of the main entrance of the Residency hotel. It is a compact restaurant with few tables and I recommend you to book prior, if you are planning to visit. The hotel had valet parking and we entered the Right place. The ambience was pleasant with dull lights. Service was amicable but it took a long time even for simple things. Podi Idli was amazing along with honey chilli vegetables. Lime juice was bitter but the podi onion uthappam was too large in size and exceeded our expectations. They had a variety of vegetarian and non vegetarian items, pasta and noodles, fried rice to Biriyani. They also serve liquor on order. We had a wonderful time and it ended with...

I am a regular guest to this place since 1993... Yes, you read it right.. since 3+ decades.. And been visiting on Aug 20 (my wedding anniversary), every year, since 1993. Peter, the Manager, who is also a veteran staff in this Hotel is someone who makes sure the guests are taken care of really, really well.

If you haven't been to this 30+ seat super coffee shop, it's high time you drop by and experience that absolute blend of homely+professional ambience, food and hospitality. Triple cheers to Peter...