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5 Pocket Friendly Places in Mylapore to Grab a Quick Bite

Mylapore Food Walk Sridhar Venkatraman , a long time resident of Mylapore, had called out people for a  Food Walk  in Mylapore   last week, on the 8th and 9th of January. He had also shared a handy map for the joints (Which can be found as the Featured image in this post), thus giving us the freedom to explore the places on our own. I went for the food walk with some of my friends, on the 9th and here I am, writing about my experience, and listing out the places I tried out. 1. Rayar’s mess : I tried out these items: Bonda – Pretty good, and the traditional South Indian touch was there, making it taste great, without that oily, sticky feel one usually gets at tea shop bondas. Gulab Jamun – Yummy ! Coffee – Wow! One of the simplistically good coffees I’ve tasted in recent times. Kudos to Rayar’s Mess ! Onion Rava Dosai – My friends tried out an Onion Rava Dosai in addition, and their reviews were quite positive Overall, for the 4 of us, the bill worked out to be Rs. 260 in total, which,

Foodie 2015 - Year in Review

Foodie 2015 A fellow foodie buddy of mine Rajiv Shankar started a discussion on reviewing last year from our foodie perspective. The idea sounded good, and I right away started planning for this post 😛 After taking a considerably long break from food blogging/reviewing for almost a year (Oct 2014 – Jul 2015), I resumed my food blogging while I was on an official trip in South Africa  (The link has my reviews from the trip) But ofc, the break was only for food blogging and not my food journey itself. I’ve tried out on average 8 – 10 restaurants a month in 2015, some of them repeats, some of them new. I’ve not blogged/reviewed all of them yet, and I’ve decided not to, for a quite a few, where the experience was unmemorable (brrrr…) With that, here’s my review of my ‘Foodie’ 2015: Best restaurant/cafe you visited in 2015? Out of all the restaurants I had visiting in 2015, I loved Little Italy the most, thanks for their excellent Cheese Fondue and Canneloni Alla Florentina. An Indianized