The Grand Sweets and Snacks opened in 1982 in Adyar, Chennai and it's literally worldwide famous for its traditional South Indian sweets, snacks and savories.

The store is known for maintaining quality standards, by using fresh ingredients each time (oil is strictly not re-used), hygiene and speed when it comes to taking orders, processing and delivering them. The ingredients, method and authentic taste have no comparison in town and make you keep going back. When it opened, the proprietor employed more women than men as he believed that when it came to efficiency and responsibility, women undoubtedly lead.

At The Grand Sweets and Snacks, you are bound to find all age groups (grandparents accompanied by their grand children, office goers, students, housewives), shopping for delicious snacks and eyeing for the complimentary ‘Dhonnai’, a small basket made of leaves and kept at the billing counter containing curd rice, lime rice, akkaravadasal (a sweet made of milk, sugar and rice), tamarind rice, coconut rice, or other delicacies.

Behind the scenes, work begins at 6am every morning. There are 50 head cooks and 120 other cooks, working with massive iron kaddais (frying pan) and ladles to make murukkus (south Indian savoury made of a mixture of pulses, rice flour and other spices) and cheedai (rice flour balls). Women in groups yap away while they mix and pack the famous thokkus (pastes) in plastic bottles. 

The famous, perfectly shaped thattais (round shaped crispy snack made out of rice flour and pulses), adhirasams (sweet made out of rice flour, jaggery and butter), flours and podis (powders) are ground and made at the dedicated factory in Perungudi, at Chennai, and then transported to the branches in Anna Nagar and Adyar to meet the demand of an average 1500 orders per day.

Choose from the 250 varieties of snacks on offer, ranging from kuzhi paniyarams (a sweet or spicy dish made by steaming batter - traditionally made from black lentils and rice using a mould), to adai-avial (adai is a form of dosa made with rice and pulses while avial is a dish made of assorted vegetables, and coconut with a gravy), thenga polis (a sweet made out of coconut, pulses, flour and butter) and much more, and enjoy. Like many say, "Grand is truly grand in taste"!