Malgudi - The Savera

A South Indian themed restaurant inside the iconic savera hotel.

Location - located in the ground floor of Savera hotel.

Ambience - the entire ambience resembles a south Indian traditional House. The wooden swings at the entrance proves to be a big attraction.
And there is a palmistry counter at entrance where we can freely check our future 😅

Parking - wide parking area is available with in the savera hotel premises.

Food - we visited here to during the nanjil naadu food festival. It's an ala Carte menu with delicacies from Nagercoil, kanyakumari, Marthandam and trivandrum regions.

Since it's a special food festival menu, chef was there to explain the dishes
Since it's a huge menu, am listing out my favourites in this spread.
We started with the traditional sarbath (made using a famous brand in South - Raja sarbath)
Also being a guy from South tamilnadu, I loved eating aviyal (mixed vegetable dish) and pazham pori (sweet banana fritters). 🍌🍌🍌
In main course, the seeraga samba biryani was so tasty.
One highlight dish I wanted to mention is the cheratta puttu (coconut shell puttu). Tasted
amazing.

In desserts, we tried paal kozhukattai the unique dish from kanyakumari. Those are Sweet balls of rice cooked in coconut milk.

Service - you can experience Fine dining here with people always ready to serve you.

Pricing - all items are priced at 5 star level. And so it's unaffordable to visit regularly. But can be experienced during special occasions.

Rating
Food - 4/5
Ambience - 5/5
Service - 5/5
Pricing - 3/5

It seems one of the oldest Hotel in Chennai but it's has got very good ambience a good designs and photos on wall and you will get all traditional South Indian Tamilian food here we enjoyed Appam with coconut milk and coconut milk based chutney

Malgudi has a clear South Indian character, down to the astrologer sitting cross legged at the entrance.

The furniture inside is Indian and a couple of large swings as soon as you enter gives people waiting the chance to sit and rock away gently.

Mirrors on all the walls add to the sense of space. It is almost octagonal, with large bright paintings of the folk arts distributed across the interior.

We settled in for a light dinner - Aapams and vegetarian stew with a round of Vazhapoo (banana flower florets) vadas. They taste a lot like the lentil vadas, with a slight difference in the flavor.

Waiters are dressed in traditional attire and service is unobtrusive. There is a wide variety of fish and chicken dishes on the menu.

Prices are on the higher side but they have a clientele of regulars who have their own set of favorites. The food is definitely spicy - that's almost a given at Indian restaurants and this one explores dishes from each of the South Indian states.

Malgudi is the mythical village from author RK Narayan's well-loved books. However, there's nothing rural about this place in the middle of the metropolis. Even if there are props to create the illusion.

Great venue, peaceful music and a perfect place for family dining. Thaali is a must try!

Excellent and authentic south indian food bringing great flavours from all the four states of south india. Very nice ambience too. I had vegetarian but my colleagues savoured the non-veg food as well. The halwa as a final dessert was finger licking tasty. If you need drinks, they had very limited options though.

This restaurant ambience is good and the set up starts with an astrologer at the entrance. Entire setup gives a ancient vibe with swings and bells hanging on the interiors. The serving team wears a ln authentic uniform.

Ambience here lives to its name. Food, one must go with good Appetite, to truly relish the delicacy. Service speaks homely. Better book if you are going in holidays. They are quite busy. This place was a swimming pool time visit property during my childhood. I am now 59. Now you know why you can visit such a restaurant. It is in the heart of the city. You have vallet parking. There were some deserts display, but we didn't try it out. The waiting area has swing to relax. Fresh and quality food served humbly. I wish I find one more chance to hop into this restaurant. As i stay about 50 km away, i need to plan to come here. But still worth it. One must be affordable as well to pay the bill. But worthy of it. Enjoy.

Try the Astrologer sitting Just outside the restaurant entrance. He says he is sitting there for 2 and half decades. His telling means business. It was 90 %true for us, especially saying the characters of our children. We didn't get to go further deep.

If you go to this restaurant make sure you take a table at the center part. We reserved a table by call and when we reached a corner table was given to us. Food was good in taste and quality as expected. The ambience was good with soothing mild instrumental music playing in the background. However, since we got the corner table, service was unresponsive and hard to reach. We ended up finishing lunch after the people who came around 1 hour after us and occupied the center table.