Double Roti

Double roti - 4/27, Cenotaph, 1st Street, Teynampet, Chennai.

This is on the lane after SIET college, if you have ever been to MKC from mountroad side, this is 100 meters further down on the right. This is has been built up in the parking space of "illam" service apartments. A franchise of the Delhi brand and already raking up a good 4.2 on zomato.

Another attempt by the food bloggers to bring the house down was here. We planned to gather around 1:30 pm to get the max seats available. "Dabal" roti with korma is considered poor man's food but this "Double Roti" is the richer version of some angrezi-food with a desi-twist

 

Ambiance: Nicely done up ~400 sft of parking space converted into a resto. Interesting interiors with pipes hanging above, vegetable graters used as lamp shades outside, wooden chairs and tables, paint buckets on the walls, interesting reading boards, serving containers varied from a dosa pan for all your burgers, a deep-based wok for your nachos, small steel bucket for our fries with salsa or meats. flower pots for oreo shake, glass jars big/small for your juices, coffee mugs as tissue holders, little flowerpots etc

Menu: It was a school writing pad clipped with A4 menu sheets.  The menu was elaborate and exhaustive but these might tear off easily, time to change to laminated ones or keep replacing them as often as they can. Prices of menu items range between 100 - 500 plus

Veg nachos/bacon nachos: served with salsa and olives was okay but the fries with bacon strips was delish. I love the combination and it vanished in a giffy. The best thing would be to mix up, toss up all the contents first so that you can balance it all.

Milkshakes: Strawberry cucumber milk shake and the apple beet based ABC milkshake were both normal nothing much to write about. More for the diet conscious people who walk in

 Oreo milkshake: in a flower pot is slush and really thick, you would love every sip of it till the last drop

Big boy veg burger: served with feta cheese, fries with salsa and cream. Not a big fan of veggies except that the feta cheese was really good

Porker face: An amazingly soft and tender burger served with lettuce, apple slices left me wanting for more.

The best thing about hunting in packs is that you can try all those burgers and choose what suits you best, I found the illegal beef burger, Areas 69  to be yumm, a hotdog with sausage, minced beef, caramelized onions was really good. There is no dry feeling or the ground beef being either chewy or rough to eat (which is the indicator for good quality of  meat)

Amazing burgers, hotdogs, sandwiches - The juiciness, the flavor, the size, the price point were mostly spot on. So folks dabal-up or be left waiting outside without a seat!

Note to the Japtej (Resto owner): 

• Please provide some seats for the people waiting outside, it was really disturbing to see people standing for more than 20 mins
• Consider the quality of paper as it soaks up moisture, it shreds and peels off (DIY burgers suffer from this) 
• Wallet parking would be a good idea at least on weekends and busy days