The best Chicken 65 in Chennai
Also spelt chicken sixty five, chicken 65 dry, gobi 65 and paneer 65. A curated shortlist, shaped by your votes.
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Selected from published food guides and local reporting. How the list works
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Number 1.Buhari Hotel, Mount Road
- Open
- 11am to 11.30pm daily
- Where
- 83, Anna Salai (Mount Road), Border Thottam, Triplicane, Chennai 600002
Order the bone-in chicken 65 with lime and raw onion, exactly as it left this kitchen in 1965. The room is loud and service brisk, so expect a wait at weekends.
What to orderBone-in chicken 65
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Number 2.Abid's
- Open
- 12.30pm to 10.30pm daily
- Where
- Shop 21, Spur Tank Road, near Grand Sweets, Sulaiman Zackria Avenue, Chetpet, Chennai 600031
Two versions sit on the menu; take the original, with chunkier pieces and a thin coat, over the Hyderabadi one. Doors open only at half twelve, so no early lunch here.
What to orderOriginal chicken 65
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Number 3.Erode Amman Mess, LB Road
- Open
- 11.45am to 4pm, then 6.45 to 11pm
- Where
- 163, SMS Building, LB Road, near Adyar police station, behind Sony showroom, Chennai 600020
Ask for the chicken 65, then the Andhra chilli chicken, which is the same fry loaded with green chillies and curry leaves. Kitchen shuts between four and quarter to seven.
What to orderChicken 65
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Manjal
- Open
- Noon to 4pm and 7 to 10.45pm; sells out
- Where
- 6/9, Kasthuri Estate, 3rd Street, Poes Garden, Alwarpet, Chennai 600086
Pick the chicken 65 off the display plate, and the quail 65 if it is out. Popular items vanish by mid-evening, and the kitchen closes for a long afternoon break.
What to orderChicken 65 with rice and rasam
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Ponnusamy Hotel
- Open
- 11am to 11pm daily
- Where
- 55/1, Gowdia Mutt Road, Azad Nagar, Royapettah, Chennai 600014
The chicken 65 here comes out of a Chettinad kitchen running since 1954, so order it with the mutton biryani. Go to the Royapettah flagship; the branches are not the same.
What to orderChicken 65 with mutton biryani
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Madurai Kullappa Mess (T Nagar)
- Open
- Noon to 11pm daily
- Where
- Door No. 53 (old 30), Sir Thyagaraya Road, T Nagar, Chennai 600017
Their chicken 65 carries a citrus edge that the usual version lacks; have it with the seeraga samba chicken biryani. Pondy Bazaar parking is grim, so come by autorickshaw.
What to orderSpecial chicken 65
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Southern Spice, Taj Coromandel
- Open
- Lunch 12.30 to 2.45pm, dinner 7 to 11.45pm
- Where
- Taj Coromandel, 37 Mahatma Gandhi Road (Uthamar Gandhi Salai), Nungambakkam, Chennai 600034
A restrained version, evenly spiced with a coating that is neither thick nor thin. It is hotel pricing in a five-star dining room, and lunch service ends at quarter to three.
What to orderChicken 65
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Hotel Paramount
- Open
- About 7.30am to 11pm daily
- Where
- 12/5, Ormes Road, near CSI Bain School, Kilpauk, Chennai 600010
Regulars come for paya, but the chicken 65 holds its own beside it, and both are cheap. Appams are off the menu at lunch, so plan for chapati instead.
What to orderChicken 65 with paya
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Kabali's Thai Ilai Biriyani
- Open
- From about 8pm till sold out; shut Mondays
- Where
- Fifth Avenue at the HDFC Bank entrance, opposite Fresh Today, AC Block, Anna Nagar, Chennai 600040
A night cart on Fifth Avenue frying chicken 65 to order beside the biryani cauldrons. Queues run to eighty people, stock goes within hours, and Mondays it does not open.
What to orderChicken 65 with thai ilai biryani
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