Restaurants in Northern Tamil Nadu
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Coffee.Com
Puducherry's cosmopolitan vibe is typified by this hip little internet hang-out. It's a meeting place where you can go online, read magazines, drink espresso coffee and there's a widescreen TV and a selection of DVDs. The café also serves up great baguettes, pasta, pastries and milkshakes.
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Moonrakers
Like it or not, you’ll likely end up here at some stage; it’s the sort of place that magnetises travellers. Probably because it’s a three-storey resto-bar complex that dominates the backpacker-ghetto streetscape. Food is OK, ambience is better and beer is enjoyable from the top-floor verandah.
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Rendezvous
The steaks here are superb, but then again, so is just about anything at this suitably romantic restaurant, where diners can lounge in AC comfort or pick at their coq au vin under the stars on the lush garden terrace.
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Le Yogi
This is probably the best Western food in town. The steaks, pastas and pizzas are genuine and tasty (if small), service is stellar, and the airy dining area, with wooden accents, flickering candlelight and billowing fabrics, is romantic as all get out.
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Freshly ‘N Hot
Yes, the name makes no sense, and we’re not sure it’s some cute misspelling either, considering the guys who run this open-air cafe have so many other Western standards down. Especially the ice coffee: hands down the best in town.
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Siesta
On the shaded and breezy rooftop of Sri Murugan Guest House, this tapas restaurant offers - among other things - authentic Spanish omelette, patatas bravas (fried potatoes in a spicy sauce), garlic mushrooms and paella.
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Village Inn Restaurant
Tucked away off the main strip, there's cane furniture, a couple of tables on the veranda and Indian classical music playing in the background, with inexpensive seafood, steaks (order in advance) and, surprisingly, Scotch eggs.
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La Coromandale
Tasty South Indian thalis, rice, noodles and cold drinks and a relaxed atmosphere for meeting and chatting are the attractions of this open-fronted restaurant, situated on the promenade. Beware of eccentric opening hours.
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La Terrasse
This simple semi-open-air place near the southern end of the promenade has a wide menu but is best known for good pizzas and safe salads, as opposed to their Indian food (which is frankly wanting). No alcohol is served.
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Nautilus
The Nautilus seems perpetually buzzing with every traveller you’ve ever met talking about how much they loved/hated/got-ripped-off-in Goa/Varanasi/Hampi/Cochi while eating eggs on toast and drinking smoothies.
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Le Club
This club wraps three restaurants into one, with heavy French fare, a simple garden terrace and – unique to Pondy as of our writing – Vietnamese and Southeast Asian fare in the attached Indochine.
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Kasha ki aasha
You’ll get a great pancake breakfast, good lunches (try the European-style thali) and delicious cakes served on the pretty rooftop of this colonial-house-cum-craftshop-cum-cafe.
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Santana Beach Restaurant
If beachside ambience and the strains of Bob Marley are what you're after Santana Beach Restaurant is recommended for fresh seafood. It also makes a good setting for breakfast.
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Seashore Restaurant
If beachside ambience and the strains of Bob Marley are what you're after the Seashore Restaurant is recommended for fresh seafood. It also makes a good setting for breakfast.
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Bob Marley Café
If beachside ambience and the strains of Bob Marley are what you're after, Bob Marley Café is recommended for fresh seafood. It makes a good setting for breakfast too.
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Luna Magica
If beachside ambience and the strains of Bob Marley are what you're after, Luna Magica is recommended for fresh seafood. It's also a good setting for breakfast.
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Your Daily Bread
Neighbouring bakeries Your Daily Bread and Hot Breads are on Ambour Salai, selling terrific French bread, croissants and other baked goodies from 07:00 daily.
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Hot Breads
Neighbouring bakeries Your Daily Bread and Hot Breads are on Ambour Salai, selling terrific French bread, croissants and other baked goodies from 07:00 daily.
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Surguru
Simple South Indian served in a posh setting. Surguru is the fix for thali addicts who like their veg accompanied by the strongest AC this side of Chennai.
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Rose Garden
This is one of the better biryani shops in a town that’s surprisingly full of joints serving this tasty Muslim treat.
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Au Feu de Bois
Wood-fired pizza and only wood-fired pizza is the name of the game here, and it’s a damn decent game.
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Satsanga
This very popular backyard spot serves excellent continental cuisine and, like most places in this genre, a full Indian menu as well. The large variety of sausages and lovely homemade bread and butter goes down a particular treat, as do any of the steaks.
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Madame Shante’s
This rooftop option, which does its stock-in-trade in French, with a focus on seafood (try the garlic squid), isn’t quiete as polished-looking as the competition, but the food is still excellent and the ambience decidedly open-air and alluring.
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Palais Croisette
On the roof of Hotel Ramakrishna, the Palais manages very nice pasta (put it this way: it came recommended by an Italian traveller) and similarly good fresh seafood.
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