Pizza Restaurant, Chennai India

The small door to the basement opens to a wide 94-seater restaurant. The place is well lit with colourful caps, sporty car models and pictures of racing champions dotting the walls. Wall-mounted TV sets play MTV as busy executives bite into their pizzas unmindful of the music, with just the young ones eyeing it between bites.

For starters go for garlic bread along with your choice soup. You can also opt for potato zig zags, the fish ‘n’ chips, which is actually golden fish fingers with potatoes and Thousand Island dip or the special chicken fingers with potatoes and cream cheese dip. Part of the super combo non-veg fare, the regular pizza is large enough for two, especially for those hell bent on going the full course. Every hour a bunch of guys perform a little jig a in the middle of the hall. By jove, nice spectacle to see. The staff all dressed up in bright red and green are watchful, but unobtrusively, moving into help the movement you lift your head up.

Veggies can smile too as you have even spicy varieties like Dice ‘n’ Spice laced with dices of cottage cheese, red paprika and capsicum or Bar-B-Q Fiesta, which is mushroom, spiced with jalapeno pepper and black olives.

The adventurous can create their own special pizza using Margherita as the base and 21 choice toppings including chicken salami, lamb pepperoni and jalapeno pepper. The Lunch Munch, a dine-in offer of one regular pizza with any two toppings, single portion of potato wedges plus a bottomless glass of coke, all for Rs.79/- is worth every pie. Wind off with a brownie sundae and thank the Italians for tickling your palates. Pizza Corner does not serve beef or pork and the sauces served do not contain garlic, says a note in the menu and , thankfully, there’s been no Indianization of the Pizza here.

All cards accepted. No minimum billing. No valet parking. Reservations needed. Liquor not served. Home delivery (26287111). Price for a meal for two costs about Rs.300/-.