Barnyard: The Original Party Animals

A friend introduced me to this place. He said Cream Centre. I said what? At dinner time, Cream Centre? You've got to be kidding me-I need proper food. He laughed at me and said this is a proper dining place. Whoa! Cream Centre? Dining Place? Hmmm! Ice cream should be what they would be focussing on, I assume. I just had too many things on my mind.

Even from outside, as I saw, it WAS infact looking like an ice cream outlet. I had to wait and I waited.

Entering the place, the place made me change ideas. The menu wasn't very helpful for me to decide what I really wanted and the waiters were even worse in explaining to me what each of the dishes really was. My friend finally resolved to ordering Veg Noodles Sizzler and I just had to follow that blindly. When we were served with what we had ordered, boyyo! This is a damn good place. Drinks amaze me even more. Lovely. Everything that is food and drinks is more than what you can really expect.

The original Cream Centre (at Chowpatty in Mumbai) is surely one of my most frequented restaurants in Mumbai. It also ranks as one of the best restaurants in Mumbai.

While Cream Centre has now brought the franchise to Chennai, and it is definitely a place I would recommend to all, there is definitely something amiss when I compare it with the original Cream Centre at Mumbai.

For starters, the ever-so-popular fresh carrot pickle is completely stale and has thus been sidelined. Then you have the fine dining experience here which is quite the opposite of the fun-filled fast-food service experience that you get in the original Cream Centre. Add to that the lousy service levels at the place unlike the top-class service levels you are dished out in the original.

However, these disappointments should not dampen the spirits of foodies who want to dig their fingers into some great Chana Bhatura and Parathas.

Let down-From the name, how it appears to the passerby on the main road to the waiters/bearers everything that doesn't sound food is a let down. You wouldn't go there if you hadn't tasted their food or if you weren't told by someone about them, would you? I hadn't!

How do people get to this place? It is not quite visible from the main road and anyone could easily miss it. But this multicuisine? restaurant has good Mexican food (but dont expect the waiter to pronounce it rite for you, we sell them we dono how to call them though!). The nachos are good and the best part is the drinks, they are absolutely incredible. We tried all possible sizzlers and they were served so well and appetizing to even look at. The dessert sizzler was good too but too sweet to handle. It all goes well until the bill arrives, it is an expensive place alrite but doesnt really matter on special occasions. Nice place to have fun for treats with big gangs. Some one want to do something new this year? Try this place…you’ll end up coming out smiling !

No 55, Second Main Road, Near Park Sheraton, R.A.Puram, Chennai

Phone 4281577