Previous Mahabalipuram Street, a late-night meals haven for the younger and previous

Lively at night time: The realm is residence to IT firms and start-ups. Lots of their workers step out for a snack at night time.
| Photograph Credit score: Sangeetha Kandavel

V.M. Meals Avenue on Previous Mahabalipuram Street (OMR) has emerged as a vibrant night time vacation spot for faculty college students, data expertise professionals, and meals lovers.

With an array of retailers opening by midday and providing a various menu till late at night time, this meals road is establishing itself because the premier vacation spot for these searching for to savour culinary delights.

The primary outlet on this road, which is at Kamaraj Nagar, Semmancheri, is Crispy Rooster World, operated by Udhayakumar A. It opened simply two weeks in the past. “Throughout my college and school years, I labored at McDonald’s — first part-time after which full-time. It was throughout this time that I found my ardour for the meals enterprise,” he says.

Udhayakumar notes that prospects at his outlet benefit from the bucket rooster and crispy rooster specifically. He emphasises that its distinctive ‘masala’ and reasonably priced costs swimsuit the scholars. The second outlet, The Burger Joint, opened 15 days in the past. Surya Prakash, the proprietor, says the presence of 4 schools on this locality is driving the footfall.

He says college students who stroll into his joint request pasta, burgers, and pizzas.

A number of metres away is Papino Ice, which began its operations a month in the past. This outlet presents a wide range of ice lotions, together with tender coconut, jackfruit, and dry fruits. In keeping with Sivamani R., the proprietor, the outlet is open from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. It closes an hour previous midnight at weekends.

One other engaging spot is Conical Gaufres specialising in waffles. The consultant at this outlet highlights its distinctive providing: “Now we have stick waffles, much like ice cream bars.”

These working out of this meals road say that the demand for meals is sort of excessive right here. The OMR space homes over 200 ladies’s hostels and paying visitor lodging. These aside, there are mansions that home males. All of these put up at hostels and mansions step out to eat, says Mr. Udhayakumar. The OMR belt is residence to quite a few data expertise firms and start-ups that present employment to hundreds of people, lots of whom work at night time. And these workers step out for a snack at night time.

On a Monday night time, Chandru, who works at a tech firm within the space, visited the meals road with buddies for dinner. He notes the meals on V.M. Meals Avenue is fairly priced, in contrast together with his firm’s cafeteria. Chandru additionally says folks usually collect to play carrom and chess at late hours.

One other entrepreneur says that after the Metro Rail building is accomplished, extra folks will flock to those meals courts. Presently, site visitors congestion as a result of Metro Rail undertaking is excessive. Therefore, many are unwilling to go to the world, he provides.