cream centre restaurant

A friend of our and a discerning diner at that had recommended this restaurant in raja annamalaipuram to us. Yes it was around a year back.I pass by and used to remember that we should visit this restaurant.
Hence it was that a few weeks back we made a beeline to this place. A friend of ours was visiting us and velankanni church festival being in full swing, all eateries in the neighbourhood were out of bounds. The takeaway food joint that used to be patronised heavily by S appeared to have wound shop.Looks like S had some unique taste which did not have mass market in our locality!So we had no choice than to try out cream centre.
We called up for booking and were told not too politely that we should come to the restaurant and try our chances. It did put us off a bit, but then we had made up our mind to go there and like true tamilians, 'mun vaitha kaalai pin vaika maatom' was our motto. So we landed there, the restaurant being right in the middle of very good residential neighbourhood only added to its charm.We waited in the garden for a while and very soon got a comfortable table.We saw that the restaurant has been converted from a residential accomodation. Again it added to its uniqueness.
We looked at the gorgeous menu card and were thoroughly bowled over by the pictures of dishes which were very attractive. Hence we pitched for known and unknown dishes, purely on the basis of their appearance in the menu card. We even plumped for the chef's reco.
While we were waiting we realised that the place was choc a bloc with family crowd and every family had an average of four kiddos below the age of five.They were bawling, running around and screaming all the time and of course cartoon network and pogo were being shown on the tv for added din. We heard some other noises in the background and discered it was the channel music trying to valiantly have its space in the din!We decided to ask the manager to please take the so called channel music off the air; the heady concoction of bawling kids and background sitar music was not really pleasant. He lowered the volume a bit and came back saying that they have put on the music after customers had complained about the noise level of the kiddoos. He said they have tried everything (other than strangling the brats) but since the place seems to suit toddlers and their parents other customers have to simply lump it.
Now, there started the waning of the honeymoon times. We realised that we had to also lump the thoroughly flavourless food. It was tottering around very very average. There was nothing wrong with it, but then there was nothing commendable about the taste either. We felt thoroughly cheated and decided to ask for dessert just to lift our moods a bit.
The kulfi was okay and did save the day somewhat.
NO, we are not recommending cream centre in raja annamalaipuram to anybody other than young parents who somehow dont seem to mind the lack of taste or ambience, as long as their kiddos are allowed a run of the restaurant.