Traditional
Lunch Houses (Mess Houses as they are called) are places which are considered
to have fresh lunch on a daily basis. They manage to be pretty close to our
home made preparations and thus are considered to be safe. Usually open only
for lunch they see heavy footfall from the average office crowd. Calicut's Amma
Mess is a pretty popular place and is heavily crowded on almost all days.
Two
Mess Houses that we have found interesting are the Brother's Mess in Chelavoor
(though they call it Brothers Hotel) and Chaithanya (hope I have got the name
right) at Vengeri Junction in the Kannur Bypass Road. But the best of all has
been Maniyettan. Maniyettan, is a local chef who cooks for our 'rarely rare'
official lunches and dinners. He is sort of a freelancer, if the term applies
to catering as well (he does not run a hotel, but cooks for parties) and is a
master in his own right.
A
one-line review on Maniyettan's Naadan Oonu, would be, "Its home made in
its real sense".
Thanks for the photographs Arun!!!
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