MMM SIGNATUREMutton Chukka
Slow-cooked, finished dry on the tawa with crushed pepper, curry leaf and coconut slivers.

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Madurai-style non-vegetarian cooking, traditional South Indian favourites, and the dishes that belong beside them.
A mess meal is built,
not picked.
A little guidance from the kitchen
One dry fry to share, rice to spoon gravy over, and enough room for the dish you came in thinking about.
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MMM SIGNATURESlow-cooked, finished dry on the tawa with crushed pepper, curry leaf and coconut slivers.
MMM SIGNATUREThe dry version — fried down until the masala clings and the oil runs clear.
FROM THE SEASeared in butter with a generous hand of garlic and a last crack of pepper.
Start here
Crab stock pulled long with black pepper and garlic — thin, hot and restorative.
Country chicken rasam, sharp with tamarind and pepper.
The pepper-forward one — order it on a wet Chennai evening.
Slow-cooked, finished dry
Minced mutton pounded with spice, rolled and fried.
Quick heat, soft centre, pepper and curry leaf.
Cooked down in ghee until the masala turns dark and clings.
Tawa, ghee and pepper
Kongunadu-style — dried red chilli, coconut and shallots, nothing else in the way.
Country chicken, firmer and deeper in flavour, dry-fried with a heavy hand of pepper.
Classic crisp chicken, spiced and fried for the table.
Seeraga samba rice
Seeraga samba rice, dum-sealed until the grains separate clean.
Country chicken cooked slowly for a deeper flavour and a satisfying chew.
Fragrant biryani crowned with crisp spiced chicken.
Evening only
Parotta shredded on the tawa with mutton, egg and gravy.
Dosa cooked over spiced chicken curry until the two become one thing.
String hoppers, egg, onion and wok-tossed spices.
Never the last thing you remember
Madurai’s own — halwa pressed into a soft bun.
Tender coconut payasam, served cold.
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Three outlets across Chennai — Anna Nagar, Porur and Thoraipakkam.
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