Athiti

This is a Gujarathi veggie restaurant based in Glenferrie (near Glenferrie station, in Burwood road). You wouldnt want to go to Athithi expecting the ambience or the service to be very good.

You can papmer yourself with a gujju meal (unlimited) if you are really hungry. The menu consists of 3 side dishes, unlimited number of chappathis (you would like to call them rotis - these are very thin and tastes awesome), dhal, rice, a sweet, papad and Lassi. The meal is gonna cost u 15 dollars, but you can be sure that u will come out of the restaurant with ur stmach full and happy taste buds.

Chat items like sev puri, bhel puri, samosa chat & vada pav are a big hit here. If you are in a hurry, i wud recommend you to order one of these, coz they are served in no time. South indian items like dosas, idlis and sambar vadais are on the menu, dont even think about ordering them here.

The seating capacity would be around 22 and the crowd starts to come in (mostly uni students) after 8pm. Dont worry about carrying cash with you, they accept EFTPOS and credit cards. If you are lucky, you would be having ur food with ur favourite bollywood song in the background.

Gangothri

Gangothri is a chat corner .Its not like anything thats there in any street.Its been Rocking for years and I would say..chats in chennai goes synonymous with Gangothri.

They are in Cathedral Road just opposite to Stella Maris Womens College.I wouldnt say its a huge place but definitely a comfortable one.But dont take a too big crowd.This place is very crowded during weeknds.So avoid going on weeknds.

Name it the Bhelpuri or Papdi chats or their aloo tikkas name it its real yummy.Especially anything doing with dahi...they have got the best...Real yummy and creamy.

I also love their instantaneous Pani pooris.

Needles to mention their sweets and savouries.Real delicious.Kathlis are at the best.It might work to around Rs400 per Kg. Cutlets Kachoris and Dhoklas are also good.This is one place you could get a good Dhokla apart from Shri Mittai.

Their Chats arent that expensive and range between Rs 30 - Rs50.
You wanna catch a person for a short while with a decent apetite this place is good.
But You want to have a real good chat( i mean not the eating chat...:) ) avoid cos it is pretty small and you ll fell it gets bit clostrophobic.

Heard of their presence in Tnagar..though skeptical on the location.
But they have a branch in Besant nagar Plannet yumm and Tidel Plannet yumm!

Do check it out!Forget your calories but!