Al Tarik Briyani 87541 19755

சூளைமேடு Choolaimedu, Chennai 94

Al Tarik Briyani — Beef biryani. Tawa beef. That’s the whole menu.

Al Tarik Briyani cooks just two things — a beef biryani built on fragrant seeraga samba rice, and tawa beef off the hot iron. Call ahead, come to Choolaimedu, eat it hot.

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A steel platter of beef biryani with dark, slow-cooked beef pieces, a boiled egg, raita and pickle
No. 02 Tawa Beef
On the menu
2 dishes
The rice
Seeraga samba
Find us
Chennai 600 094
A heavy black cooking pot sitting over a wood fire
Fresh red chillies and garlic being pounded in a stone mortar

01 The idea

A short menu
is a promise.

Most biryani counters try to cook everything. Al Tarik picked two dishes and gave them all the attention: a beef biryani made with seeraga samba rice, and a tawa beef that goes from the hot iron to your plate.

No long card to scan, no guessing what’s good. Whatever you order here is the thing the kitchen makes all day.

“Only two items.” Not a limitation — the whole point.

03 The rice

Small grain.
Big fragrance.

Seeraga samba is Tamil Nadu’s own biryani rice — a short, slender grain named for its likeness to seeragam, the cumin seed. It drinks in the masala, and it’s the rice under every plate of Al Tarik’s biryani.

A wide steel vessel of seeraga samba biryani with short, separate grains, served with onion raita
Seeraga samba biryani — every grain separate

சீரக சம்பா

see·ra·ga sam·ba

Seeragam means cumin. The grains are small enough to be mistaken for it.

Grain, side by side

Close-up of short white rice grains

Short grain, long flavour — the same rice behind Tamil Nadu’s famous biryanis, from Dindigul to Ambur.

A pile of bright red dried chillies spilling from a jute sack
2 dishes on
the menu
1 kind of rice:
seeraga samba
94 Chennai 600 094 —
Choolaimedu
2 phone lines
to order on

04 How to order

Three steps
to a hot plate.

A steel plate of dark beef fry with a wedge of lime

  1. Step 01

    Call us

    Either line works. Ask what’s ready and how long it’ll take.

    87541 19755 88254 71291

  2. Step 02

    Pick your plates

    Beef biryani, tawa beef, or both. Tell us how many — that’s the whole conversation.

    Beef Biryani+Tawa Beef

  3. Step 03

    Come to Choolaimedu

    Follow the map to Chennai 94, come by, and eat it while it’s hot.

    Open directions

Made to be
eaten hot.

சூடா சாப்பிடுங்க — eat it while it’s hot.

A plate of biryani with a large piece of meat, onions and lime on the side
Biryani
Tamil Nadu style biryani with chunks of meat on a white plate
Tamil Nadu style
Spiced beef served on a banana leaf with raw onion rings and lime
On a banana leaf
Sliced red onion with lime and pickle on a small plate
Onion & lime
A steel bowl of biryani garnished with herbs and fried onions
Straight from the pot

Hungry?

Two numbers. Two dishes. One short call.

Line one 87541 19755 Tap to call Line two 88254 71291 Tap to call

05 Visit

Find us in
Choolaimedu.

Address
Al Tarik Briyani
Choolaimedu, Chennai 600 094
Tamil Nadu
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