Stix @Hyatt Chennai

Been to Stix restaurant for dinner with some colleagues visiting from US and China. Liked the U shapped bar counter type seating and the open kitchen setting where you can see the cooking.
About the food, it was generally quite good. The fried baby corn and tofu starters were pretty good, dumplings were ok. Fried rice looked like steamed rice and tasted ok.
Fried noodles were ok, but sichuan soupy noodles was spicy and very good. Stir fried vegetables and string beans were also good. Generally the dishes had a generous amount of red chilles, which just suited me fine. I did notice that they served Basa fish, which is a farmed fish from Thailand or Indonesia and about which i had read recently articles advising to avoid.


My Ratings
Food Quality: 3.5/5
Ambience: 4/5
Service: 3.5/5
Value For Money: N/A

Onam Sadya at Isha Mahamudra

First I have to say about the last years Onam Sadya lunch at Ente Keralam. The experience was not good as you can read in a couple of posts below. So this year I wanted to try something different and after seeing ad's , I suggested to my friends that we go to Isha's Mahamudra restuarant. I had been to Mahamudra a few times before and generally liked their food and ambience. The added benefit is it will not be as expensive as Ente Keralam and other is you can be sure that the food would be healthy. The food as I expected was quite good and tasty as well. There were 20+ dishes in the meal and overall it was a good meal. The service was also good, though I could figure out that some of the waiter's were volunteers and not professionals. The price was reasonable at 400 per person.

My Ratings
Food Quality: 3.5/5
Ambience: 3.5/5
Service: 4/5
Value For Money: 3.5/5