Chennai Sangamam - Food Festival 2010 Venues/places

"Chennai Sangamam 2010" is the biggest open festival. It is celebrated every year during the harvest festival (Pongal Festival) in TamilNadu. Its a week long festival. One of the important festival in Chennai Sangamam is the "Food Festival"("Tamil Unavu Thiruvizha"). It is a "Sangamam of cuisines". It is the place where you can taste variety of foods at a cheaper rate. You will be able to get the five star hotels food at a road side rate. Some of the mouth watering dishes are Thirnelveli Iruttu Kadai Halwa, Dindugal biriyani, Kerala food, tribal food, Madurai Jigarthanda, Srivilliputhur Palkova, Madurai Prema Vilas Halwa, Manapparai Murukku, Kovilpatti kadalamittai, Nethili fish curry and more vegetarian and non vegetarian dishes. The places are venues where the food festival in Chennai Sangamam 2010 take place are

1) Nageswara Rao Park, Mylapore - The hotels in Mylapore where the food festival take place are

• Kailash Parbhath
• Sangeetha
• SRM Institute of Hotel Management
• Chettinadu
• Bombay Ice cream

2)Natesan Park, T-Nagar is another venue and the names of the hotels are as follows
Ente Keralam, Copper Chimney, Burma Bai Parotta, Savorit, GRT, Jenny's Academy, Cup O Cafe

3)Bouganvilla Park, Anna Nagar
The hotels are Kokum, Savorit, Adyar Ananda Bhavan, MGR Institute of Hotel Management, EMPEE Institute of Hotel Management, Prakash Thattukada, Namma Dindigul

4)Thiru Vi Ka Park, Shenoy Nagar
The venues of food festival in this location are Kokum, Thattukada, MGR Institute of Hotel Management, EMPEE Institute of Hotel Management, Savorit, Cup O Café, Burma Bai Parotta, Namma Dindigul

5)Sivan Park, KK Nagar an the name of the hotel is Adyar Ananda Bhavan

6)Lady Wellington School, Marine drive and the hotels that participate in food festival are Kailash Prabhath, Tirupur Food, Virudhunagar Food, Burma Bai Parotta, Savera, Dindigul Bangaru, Badugas, Asan Memorial
College

These are some venues. The whole list of places where chennai sangamam food festival 2010 take place can be found at website http://www.chennaisangamam.com/Food.html

Chennai Sangamam 2010 - Cultural Festival in TamilNadu

Chennai Sangamam is one of the largest cultural festival held in Chennai during the month of January every year. It is announced that Chennai Sangamam 2010 will be held from January 10. This festival is organized by Department of tourism and culture of Government of Tamil Nadu. And Tamil Maiyam. Chennai Sangamam is centered around the Pongal festival. It is the "biggest open festival" in India.

Festival takes place in various parts of Chennai. It is conducted in parks, beaches, school/college grounds and many more venues. About 2000 performers take part. It depicts the culture of Tamil Nadu. 

Events in Chennai Sangamam Festival and Venues

Some of the important events are the 

Food festival – Where you can taste all kinds of food from Kongu Nadu Samayal, Manaparai Murukku, Kovilpatti Kadalai Mittai, Virundhunagar Parotta, Iruttukadai Halwa, Dindigul Venu Biriyani and Chettinad Samayal. The "venue of food festival" will be in different places. Go there and enjoy the feast.
Carnatic Music Festival – If you are a lover of music then you have opportunity to hear songs from your favorite singers.

Games – All traditional games like Silambattam, Malyutham, Vazhukumaram, Uriyadi, and Kalari will be there at the fest.

The other important festivals are dance festival, poetry and photography contest too. Go to the spots and enjoy all fest.

For more information about venues and events in Chennai Sangamam 2010 visit http://www.chennaisangamam.com