What to expect at No Name Chennai the new multi-level resto bar on Chamiers Road

The German connection is known for having compound words that picture nuanced feelings. One specified connection is gemütlichkeit, which is utilized to convey a feeling of warmth, friendliness, and bully cheer. While Tamil is 1 of the oldest languages successful the world, this feeling is hard to sanction successful a azygous word. So what does 1 bash erstwhile a recently opened resto barroom evokes these feelings of warmth and bully cheer? Give it nary name! 

Chennai’s latest summation to the nightlife country is No Name connected Chamiers Road. A four-level resto barroom it blends the breezy vibe of a Bengaluru microbrewery with gourmet nutrient and cocktails that bring retired the essence of the city. It aims to adjacent a spread successful the country which relies connected the accomplishment of weekends to caput retired and person a drink. “In Chennai, the enactment country is mostly Friday and Saturday. But successful cities similar Bengaluru, adjacent connected a Tuesday you’ll spot 300 radical having a repast and a beer. There are nary weekends there. I wanted to bring that civilization to Chennai,” says Hari Chandran, laminitis and proprietor of No Name. 

Brought to beingness by designers Daphne Dmello and Nirali Bathia from Studio Kaleidoscope, each level astatine No Name comes with a vibe of its own. The archetypal level opens into a dance-floor with a afloat bar. Stained-glass windows, paintings akin to the Sistine chapel down the bar, and chandeliers hanging debased marque it a tricky creation level to fto escaped in, but the metropolis volition misdeed nevertheless, for it has been deprived of a bully creation floor. As we ascent to the 2nd floor, the vibe changes completely. Floor to ceiling windows overlooking greenery, debased sofas and comfy seats, the aroma of Thai curry. The past 2 floors are wherever No Name channels its interior Bengaluru. Open terrace, hanging cloth lamps, seats, and tables carved retired of chromatic and an casual setup that tin accommodate unfastened mics, unrecorded euphony gigs and more. 

To cater to each benignant of audience, the paper ranges everything from fries to dumplings, handmade pastas to fragrant kebabs and tikkas. The spinach maize and food dumplings, served with a saccharine chilli lipid makes the cleanable wound to commencement the evening, arsenic bash the large lad nachos that are loaded with beans, cheese, jalapeños and topped with a large dollop of sour cream. These tiny bites brace good with their signature drinks. 

We commencement disconnected with a Cucumber Twisted, a gin, cucumber, elderflower, and basil cocktail that is arsenic refreshing arsenic the abstraction itself. The bar’s eponymous signature cocktail, which is flying disconnected the shelves, has six concealed ingredients that are served with a melodramatic flair successful changeable glasses and mixed astatine the table. It is simply a vodka-based portion with bluish pea angiosperm syrup, but the remainder of the look is tightly guarded by the bartender. There are besides a fewer dessert cocktails for those of america who would alternatively portion our desserts than excavation into a vessel of crystal cream. 

For the main course, we effort the signature Pad Thai, which is tangy, spicy, and nutty successful adjacent measure. The reddish Thai curry, made in-house from scratch, arrives with fragrant jasmine atom and comes live with a compression of lime and a small chilli oil. With salads, soups, sushi, burgers, pizzas, pastas, rice, noodles and practically everything you tin deliberation of, the paper unsocial demands a second, third, adjacent 4th visit. 

And if the paper does not propulsion you backmost in, the vibe surely will. The spot shapeshifts to immoderate you request it to be. A enactment erstwhile the lights spell down, a quiescent household luncheon successful the day, an casual hangout with friends, a low-pressure archetypal date, adjacent an easy-going day dinner. 

No Name is astatine 128, New nary 22, Chamiers Road, Nandanam Extension, Nandanam, Chennai. A repast for 2 costs ₹2,500. For reservations telephone 9600077556.