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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 18 lounges
Best lounges in Chennai
The 10 most notable lounges in Chennai, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Bay 146
146 The Savera, Lobby Level, Dr Radhakrishnan Salai, Mylapore
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.417, percentile 100 of 18
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2
Z Bar Zone by The Park
Zone by, the park 430, Outer ring road
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.190, percentile 94.12 of 18
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3
Chipstead
37, Taj Coromandel, Mahatma Gandhi Road, Nungambakkam
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.178, percentile 88.24 of 18
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4
Diff 42
7, Opposite Vijaynagar Bus Terminus, Taramani Road, Velachery
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.159, percentile 82.35 of 18
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5
The Board Game Lounge
1st Floor, Sreela Terrace, 105, Gandhi Nagar 1st Main Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.135, percentile 76.47 of 18
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6
Igloos rooftop restaurant
A, Unit of Hotel Jaya, Pushpam Pvt. Ltd, 1131, Jawaharlal Nehru Salai
287 m from CMBT, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 1.964, percentile 70.59 of 18
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7
Extase
36, Sardar Patel Rd
360 m from Little Mount metro station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 1.957, percentile 64.71 of 18
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8
Aura The Lounge Bar
Radha Regent, 171, Jawaharlal Nehru Salai
344 m from Arumbakkam metro station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 1.920, percentile 58.82 of 18
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9
The Roof Top Lounge
Ramada Plaza, 36, Sardar Patel Rd
342 m from Little Mount metro station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 1.874, percentile 52.94 of 18
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10
Library Blu
Sea Face, Lobby level, The Leela Palace, Adyar
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.91 · rank score 1.851, percentile 47.06 of 18
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).