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Thai and Avani muhurtham dates are filling · Free tasting for weddings above 500 guests

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Wedding and event catering · Madurai

Feasts for 100 to 3,000 guests, cooked on wood fire.

Banana leaf weddings, kari virundhu and reception buffets across south Tamil Nadu, with our own cooks, servers, vessels and water.

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Wedding feastsBanana leaf and reception buffetsTiffin and live countersMuhurtham breakfast and dosaSweetsLaddus for return gifts and functions

Products

What we cater

Menus are priced per leaf or per plate. Send your date and count for a quote.

Reception buffet

Reception buffet

30 dishes · copper chafers · 200+

Price on request
Boondi laddu

Boondi laddu

Return gifts · boxes of 2 or 4

Price on request
Thengai laddu

Thengai laddu

Coconut and jaggery · per kg

Price on request

All products

Our kitchen

Forty years of wood fires, copper vessels and 3 am starts.

Started by Sembagam Ammal in 1984 with ten vessels and a borrowed cart. Today her son and grandson run a team of 60 cooks and 140 servers from a kitchen on the Melur Road, with separate veg and non-veg sections.

4,000+
weddings since 1984
3,000
guests in a single sitting
200
staff on our biggest days
Read our story
01

Enquire

Send the date, venue, count and veg or non-veg.

02

Taste

Visit our kitchen for a tasting and fix the menu.

03

Celebrate

We cook at the venue and serve every guest.

Receptions planned to the last chafer and flower.

We work with your decorator on the buffet layout, so the food fits the hall and the queue never reaches the door.

Talk to our team

Reviews

What customers say

Sample reviews, written for this demo. Real customer reviews replace them on your store.

Two thousand guests at my daughter’s wedding and the last batch ate as well as the first.
Murugan P. · Madurai
The kari virundhu at our housewarming is still talked about by my uncles in Dindigul.
Selvi K. · Dindigul
They brought their own drinking water, leaves and servers. We did not have to think about food once.
Arvind and Janani · Virudhunagar

Questions

Before you enquire

Answers to what customers ask us most. More on the questions page.

How early should we book?

For Thai, Panguni and Avani muhurtham dates, six to twelve months ahead. For smaller events, two to four weeks is usually enough.

How is the price worked out?

Per leaf or per plate, based on the menu and count. Veg wedding lunches start at ₹450 a leaf and kari virundhu at ₹850. Taxes and travel outside Madurai are extra.

Do you provide servers and vessels?

Yes. Our quote includes cooks, uniformed servers, all vessels, banana leaves, tables for buffets and drinking water.

Can we taste the food first?

Yes. Tastings are free for weddings above 500 guests and ₹2,500 for smaller events, adjusted in the final bill.

Journal

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Muhurtham dates book a year ahead.

Send your date and guest count. We reply with a menu and price within a day.