Avartana at Itc Grand Chola Launches a new limited Edition Menu. Here’s what special about it

At Avartana, Drumsticks – Wrapped in a Crunchy Gram Flour Coat – Look like they hopped off the met gala red carpet. Buttermilk-Spiked with Pepper, Jaggery, Beans, Asparagus and toasted almonds-reemples an embroidered Sari with pink-yellow petals and green leaves.

The Award-Winning Restaurant, Launched in Chennai in 2017, is knowledge for its progressive south Indian cuisine. The food is avant-garde, poised on Technique, and Marries Surprising Combinations. Loyalists are familyia with the menus available. Now, the team of chefs have added an innative new collection of recipes to the roster. But you cannot just walk in and order them.

Anoma, Avartna’s Limited Edition Menu can be prepared for a minimum of eight guests with a prior intimation of 48 hours. Targeted at celebrations and get togethers, anoma means illustrious in hindi, explains chef nikhil nagpal with an air of a pedagogue.

We sample the 10-coures menu, along with a bright Slew of cocktails. The hotel has been working hard on its work Restaurants and one bar.

However, enamoured by anoma, we stay at avartana and sip on Heady Guava Picantes, Spiked with Ruby Red Dry Chettinad Chillies, and Uthukuli butter Washed CGNAC with BANANAMON, Coffee, Coffi butter biscuit cream. The new beverage menu kaleidoscope uses local ingredients – Fruits Like Mango, Banana, Jackfruit, and narthagaiPaneer rose, nannari Root – to craft nine cocktails and five mocktails.

The team at avartana | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Nikhil does not want to give Away Away Too Many Spoilers, but the Food, In Typical Avartana Style is thoughtfully enginered to be a fun, Surprising series of Traditional, Flavors Flavours Recreated With Unexpected ingredients, Modern Techniques and Artistic Plating. Keep an eye out for the seabass, encased in a crisp, tasty pumpkin leaf. Also, be prepared for a little excursion mid-meal, complete with eye masks.

Twirling his trademark mousstache that has now become synonymous with avartana, nikhil says that that of all these dishes, it was the potato malabari that seemed Most Challenging. “It may sound simple but it took us 12 trials to perfect the technique,” He says, adding, “The challenge was to get the texture of the texto right will be mashed and used as an outs Take mashed potato and steam it, the curry inside tends to leak.

Duck Neer Dosa | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

The cogs are continuously turning at avartana with the team of chefs – Mayank kulshreshtra, satheeswaran loganathan, lakshmanan subramanian, and nikhil – Constantly Idential Idential Identials Pairings, and then working on turning them into dishes. One of the unique combinations in anoma is the fragrant marikolunthu Paired with Lobster.

While putting togeether the duck, it started with a kerala style preparation with that those spices. Then the team felt the flavors was similar to that of the quail and aborted that. We paired orange with that but it still had to be south Indian. So, we added a sauce made with bydagi chillies, say Nikhil.

Payasam with a twist | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

The dessert is a poster child for the phrase ‘if looks could dieve.’ It’s a dish that showcases the flavors of banana, jasmine, and apple, with a faux banana, what looks like a crumpled brown leaf, and stones. Make sure you pick the right one!

Price on call. Avartana is Located at Itc Grand Chola. Tel: 044 2220 0000.

Published – August 15, 2025 01:04 PM IST