Eating and staying in Tamil Nadu
4,589 cafés, restaurants, bars, hotels and motels across 933 towns and suburbs in Tamil Nadu.
Tamil Nadu accounts for 6% of every venue we hold in New Zealand, which makes it the 4th-largest of the 36 regions by venue count. Those 4,589 venues sit across 933 named towns and suburbs, of which 12 carry at least 40 venues and get a page of their own.
Distribution inside the region is relatively even: Chennai (197), Mahabalipuram (153) and Udhagamandalam (101) hold 10% of everything between them. The remaining 921 places average 3.7 venues each — a long tail of small settlements that we list on the nearest town page rather than give an empty page to.
The regional split runs 67% eating to 35% accommodation, against a national 66/34. That is close to the national balance.
1,092 venues in Tamil Nadu carry a cuisine tag. Measured against the national mix, the region over-indexes on malaysian (5), snack (5) and snacks (5), and under-indexes on burger and asian.
Data quality varies by region and it is worth knowing where this one stands: 394 venues here publish opening hours (9% against 8% nationally), 298 list a website, and 56 record step-free access. Everything on this site comes from open data, so coverage reflects what mappers and councils have published — not what exists on the ground.
The category split
| Restaurants | 1,881 in Tamil Nadu · 41% of the region · 7% of New Zealand's 28,244 |
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| Hotels | 921 in Tamil Nadu · 20% of the region · 7% of New Zealand's 13,603 |
| Cafés | 607 in Tamil Nadu · 13% of the region · 6% of New Zealand's 10,105 |
| Takeaways | 518 in Tamil Nadu · 11% of the region · 5% of New Zealand's 10,760 |
| B&Bs and guest houses | 290 in Tamil Nadu · 6% of the region · 6% of New Zealand's 4,782 |
| Hostels | 287 in Tamil Nadu · 6% of the region · 6% of New Zealand's 4,993 |
| Serviced apartments | 79 in Tamil Nadu · 2% of the region · 5% of New Zealand's 1,502 |
| Bars | 53 in Tamil Nadu · 1% of the region · 3% of New Zealand's 1,747 |
| Motels | 34 in Tamil Nadu · 1% of the region · 6% of New Zealand's 592 |
| Holiday parks and campgrounds | 12 in Tamil Nadu · 0% of the region · 1% of New Zealand's 1,227 |
| Pubs | 10 in Tamil Nadu · 0% of the region · 2% of New Zealand's 515 |
Towns and suburbs in Tamil Nadu
A further 921 smaller places in Tamil Nadu carry fewer than 40 venues each. Rather than publish a page with nothing to say, we list their venues on the town pages nearest them.