Chennais Love Affair With Calamari: Chef-Special Recipes You Must Try

Chennai's Love Affair With Calamari: Chef-Special Recipes You Must Try
Chennai's Love Affair With Calamari: Chef-Special Recipes You Must Try
A simple dish of calamari fritters or rings is a popular appetiser in many of the city's premium restaurants and bars as well as street food stalls.
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Highlights
Pepper calamari at Monkey Bar is a must-try.
Here are some easy recipes to make at home.
It was almost as profound a question as 'Does real imitate reel or does reel imitate real?' I was engaged in an engaging yet 'socially distant' conversation with one of Chennai's better known food writers during a sneak preview of Monkey Bar. Positioned as India's first gastropub, Monkey Bar's latest addition to its all-India footprint now includes Chennai. It follows the same template with an equal emphasis on cocktails and sharing plates that satisfy comfort seekers and gourmands alike. The dish that sparked the conversation was the pepper calamari - a tribute to a simple, yet deeply satisfying dish. It's a regular fixture in the street food stalls that dot Besant Nagar beach - one of the city's most popular hangouts. Stalls in and around the beach serve a mish-mash of small plates that often incorporate fresh catch of the day. 

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