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Restaurant in Nungambakkam
Rated: Excellent
based on 4 reviews
Sigree
Hotel Quality Inn Aruna, 5th Floor, 144/145 Sterling Road, Nungambakkam, Chennai
42664222, 9380569973
- place added by krishashok
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| Locality | Nungambakkam |
|---|---|
| Place Type | Restaurant |
| Food Type | North West Frontier, Tandoori |
| Price |
  Moderate
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Credit cards accepted
Air conditioned
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first reviewed by krishashok
- User Reviews (4)
Oct 06, 2008
Sigree delight
North-west Frontier cusine is quite a tricky area to explore in a city like Chennai. On many occasions, me and my friends have been a "victim" to bad food, bad service and what not!
Sigree is a paradigm shift. Sigree is a place you are treated with utmost respect and care. I met Amar there who served me with so much care and delight. We got talking and I was surprised when I heard this dude who serves at Sigree is a part-time management grad who's completing his education to enter greener pastures in life.
The people who serve at Sigree make sure that you know what food you're ordering and your tastes are taken care of. They don't want a mismatch between your expectation of the food and reality when the dish arrives!
On one occasion, a few months back, I was not quite happy with the quality of food and I just ticked off a comment to one of the waiters. They were obviously busy with guests and it was quite a crowd that day. As me and my friend finished and settled the bill, out came the Manager with the chef, and Amar was also there.
They apologized and said that they would make my experience much memorable the next time. As I walked out glancing through my copy of the bill, I noticed to my surprise that Amar had not charged me for the item that I had complained about.
The dinner buffet spread gives you value for money and an idea of the cusine they serve. Save space for dessert as they are sinful and tempting.
Pricing is high for fine-dining, but the ambience and food make it worth the visit.
Sigree. I'd come back for more. Any day.
Oct 06, 2008
Biryummani
'Stick to the basics' is one advice that works across industries and people. Sigree does just that.....the basics of the restuarant business is good food. And I must say they do a fantastic job of it. Mouth watering delicacies....everything from the soup to the dessert. We visited this place after checking out the reviews on this site and were so not dissappointed.
Started our dinner with the mint flavoured tomato soup and makkai seekh kebab(corn kababs), followed it with rotis and a mixed vegetable mushroom vegetable and finally to the yummy subz chilman biryani......it was simply outstanding. The aroma took our breath away and the taste lived up to the expectations created by it. The restuarant was well laid out with a fantastic ambience. Service is extremely good with attentive staff though one would wish they dont butt in so frequently to check whether the patrons like the food. There was some delay in getting our starter and more than 3 people came apologizing to us. We heartily forgave that and lost ourselves in the tomato soup. As part of their 2nd anniversary we got complimentary blue colored 'nimbu paani' and 'jalebi with rabri'. Though this was not so good I cant complain about free food. Am getting to love Speciality Restuarant brands with Sigree and of course, Mainland China. Hope the other brands are launched in Chennai soon!
Rated: Good
Feb 14, 2008
Food with Magical Aroma
Wanted to try new and something different after a tiring day @ Chennai. Conversed with the auto driver telling him what kind of a restaurant we are looking for in my broken tamil and let him decide on the restaurant.
Guess what!!?? He dropped us at an amazing place :)
It was a pretty big complex and contained the boards of different restaurants. We were delighted and very thankful to the auto driver who let us curb our hunger in style.
The complex consisted of Mainland China, Tandoor, The Pub Hub and the Sigree. All this, we gotta know comes under the Speciality Restaurants Group.
Didn't wanted to try Mainland China and Tandoor as we have them in Bangalore.
We thought we would try our hands with The Pub Hub. Since, many of our friends were Teatotallers, we changed our decision and stepped into Sigree. The restaurant was huge and Spacious, very well lit (infact it was too bright, hitting us from all the directions). They played the old hindi instrumental which is supposed to be very soothing and melodious to the ears but unfortunately it was just tooooooo loud. The tables were low, wide and broad
Sigree, basically means food cooked in a snails pace in an iron vessel (An ethnic vessel called Lagan) over charcoal. For most of the dishes, they claim, a variety of ingredients is soaked and cooked for as long as 40 hours.
The ambience was good and we gotta see a different crowd from what we saw in the mornings. It was hot and happening and my guy friends finally gotta see gals with skimpy clothes and were more than happy as they were missing all this from the time we stepped into chennai.
Now, coming to the food part, we had amazingly soft rotis, a mixed-veg gravy, chicken gravy (my friends loved it so much, they relished licking their finger)
Then came the most interesting one.. The Biryani :) It had such good aroma, we were all flat over it. Completely fell for it. It had a very different aroma.. Very different from the one we get in Bangalore. The rice was perfectly cooked with a pinch of Kesar
Few of us also had drinks but, nothing can beat bangalore in that. They did not have a menu card for the drinks. Hence, the waiter had to give us the list orally and he wasnt good enough in doing that.
Overall, the seating was perfectly placed, ambience was good, food was delicious and amazingly good, music was too loud (Should I say Noisy??) and the lighting was too bright. Having 3 restaurants and 1 bar, there was very less parking space (Was not a problem for us as we caught a auto rickshaw)
Highly recommended for the first timers @ chennai
and definitely for people who hail from chennai :)
Nov 09, 2007
Fantastic Frontier Food
The North West Frontier province always manages to evoke images of battle-hardened Pathans, Pashtuns and Baluchis riding camels and horses and generally indulging in community eating - a roast camel and pilaf perhaps.
While Sigree does not serve roast ships of the desert, it still serves some excellent kebabs and pilafs. The only reason I give it 4/5 is the horrendous parking system Quality Inn Aruna has.