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Having spent close to a year in the Land of Biryani, all types of food including chaat had taken a backseat but now that I am back in Chennai, my mind goes to my favorite joints like the Sandwich Shop in Egmore and Gangotree in Cathedral Road which rank on the top as far as hangouts and eatouts are concerned.

Anyways, today afternoon I was sitting at home, wanting to eat some chaat and decided that I wanted to eat samosas. Immediately, two places came to my mind - one is Grand Sweets and Snacks in Adyar and the other is a road side shop on R. K. Mutt Road, Mylapore. The samosas that are made in Grand Sweets is completely different from what is made in that road side shop and yet, both are good in their own ways.

Samosas at Grand Sweets: I guess all of you know where Grand Sweets is but assuming you don’t, enter Gandhi Nagar and take the road that leads to the Padmanabha Swamy temple and keep going straight for about 500m and you will find Grand Sweets on the left. It is very difficult to miss with a large number of vehicles parked around it. I’m not sure of the rates but I think it costs around Rs. 8, probably more than that, definitely not lesser. The samosa is big (trust me it really is), filled with cashews and is really tasty. I’m sure it is difficult to eat more than two though, more because of the size than anything else. Almost everyone in Chennai is familiar with the samosas from Grandsweets and if you are among the ones who still don’t know about Grand Sweets and their samosas, you are missing something great in life.

I must also mention here that quite a lot of people feel that Grand Sweets could do away with the cashews or atleast reduce the quantity of cashews in each samosa.

Samosas at Mylapore: I am going to have a difficult time trying to describe the location but here is my best try. When you are going from Mandaveli to Mylapore on R. K. Mutt Road, after you cross P. S. High School (on the left) and the Universal Temple (on the right), around 100m further down the road, keep looking out for a small shop with a green wooden gate. This place opens up early morning and serves breakfast for office and school goers. They close at around 10 in the morning and open again at 1 P.M. or so to serve lunch. But if you want to eat their delicious samosas, bajjis, vadas and other sweets and savories, you have to be there between 3.30 and 4.00 P.M., any later and they might run out of stock. These guys make all this right it front of your eyes and serve it hot and that’t why they have a fairly large clientile. The samosas are big but not as big as the ones in Grand Sweets and do not contain cashews but are very tasty nevertheless. They are reasonably priced at Rs. 3.50 so you can have twice the number of samosas when compared to Grand Sweets. I strongly recommend this place and if you either live in Chennai or if you do plan to visit Chennai, then do spare some time and check out this place.

BTW, this shop is closed on Sundays

If anyone else has eaten exceptionally good samosas elsewhere, do leave a comment and I shall add it to the post