Hotel Runs at Adyar

What to eat: South Indian Non Veg Cuisine

Where: Hotel Runs, Sardar Patel Road, Adyar, Chennai

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Verdict: After a tiresome beach visit, we were returning back home. And we wanted to have some dinner as it will be late to reach home. Parked the car below the flyover at the adyar signal. And walked over to "Runs". They only have space for two-wheeler parking. So park your car better like me.They have non-A/C resto at the ground floor and A/C resto at the first floor. We chose the family room in the ground floor. I have seen this family room concept in most of the non-veg restaurants in Madras in 1990's. But most of the restaurants have renovated and removed this concept.
Good to see "Runs" still maintain the same old concept.

Adyar is always close to my heart as it's where my kid was born. So I had used to visit most of the restaurants in the surrounding area for dine-in or take away before couple of years.

Hotel Runs is a hotel run by a Malayalee & is much famous for the grilled chicken. But the regular briyani is not that good as it used to be bland and plain. One should try their various curries with various breads like parotta, appam,..

Ordered for Runs Special Chicken Briyani, Runs Special Mutton Briyani and a King fish fry. Both type of briyani are just briyani rice fried along with eggs and also served with a boiled egg, onion raita and a not-so-tangy brinjal curry. Chicken briyani had 5-6 fried chicken pieces. Tawa fried king fish slice was brilliant. It too big...bit spicy with enough masala on the top. Two persons can easily share a single piece. Total bill was 590₹ with no tax as it's a non-A/C floor. Tips had to be paid in hand to the server.

If you love Keralese food, this is a must visit eatery in this part of city. Also try other Keralese eateries nearby like Topsee (L.B. Road) and Kuttanadhan.