Ceylon Inn Graceville — Restaurant in Brisbane City

I went to this restaurant with my wife and her sister for the first time last night and first thing we noticed is a room full of WHITE PEOPLE. The 5 star reviews on this Indian retaurant is also full of white names giving it 5 star reviews. This is not a cafe or a white retaurant, where a room full of white people is a good sign! Its an Indian restaurant with no ethnics in sight besides the three of us! In my experience a foreign restaurant full of white people is a place to dodge in AUSTRALIA! Now I gave this place a go and I KNOW Indian food and my god this restaurant is so terrible. Excelent decor and fantastic service! HOWEVER the FOOD WAS SO TERRIBLE, I nearly threw up! Its not bland, but over spiced and incorrectly spiced. The chicken tiki masala didn't tastes ANYTHING like a chicken tikimasala, it tasted like a mouth full of PEPPER. The butter chicken DIDN"T HAVE TOMATOES IN IT, at least it tasted like that, bland and lacking in spices and tastes wrong. Its nothing like the names. The order of food is WRONG, they gave us curries the main dishes BEFORE nan bread. Come on, do you get burgers with no bun, and they put a bun in 20 minutes later? What, the nann bread takes 2 minutes to make, they forgot nann bread! Something so basic, surely they can't screw up nann bread when they already were late serving it right? Oh my I was wrong, the nann bread is NOT how indian NANN bread is supposed to be. It is too thin and mostly burned making crunching thin nann that doesn't tastes like bread or how nann is suppose to taste. The portion size is so small. The pricing for the portion size of their food is ridiculously high, but after tasting the food, you would realize its actually a scam. It is really making money on the ignorant people who has no culturally understanding of taste, they have bland taste budds and likes TERRIBLE food. I have never had such terrible food in my life! Siam sunset just LITERALLY 100m and less down the road DOES WAY BETTER FOOD WAY BETTER QUALITY and yet their portion sizes are 3 times more, always busy and you see a mixture of different cultures in there. Even the Indian restaurant in CORINDA, curry'n cask, makes WAY better curries for the price, with better portion sizes and actual chefs that cooks the food! Curry'n cask can however have terrible service if its busy but the food is good even if you receive terrible service there. I would not recommand ceylon inn unless you love jackpot dining, then you will love it because your bland pallet can't taste the...

Third time attempt in 13 years. Still a woefully poor Indian dining experience. There are bad restaurants where you want to leave before finishing a dish and never return. This is almost worse than that. An establishment that provides neither authentic Indian cuisine nor a price to suit its mediocrity.

Despite the money spent on decor and staff (strangely so many awaiting so few arrivals), the food, that ultimate of litmus tests and crucible of true take out/dine in suburban success, still rates staggeringly poorly.

Staples like dhal and butter chicken are dealt with in a quality that could be equally achieved through packet sachets from a major supermarket. Not inedible, but why spend $15-20 a dish when $2-3 could bring you the same meal in the same time or less on your own stove.

Fried entrees provide acceptable flavour (though with more flour and filler than necessary) although they're let down by a substandard watery, over sweetened tamarind sauce.

Naans are merely squishy, wet pieces of dough that appear to have never heard of a tandoor oven let alone been in one ( and as hard as I looked in the kitchen I couldn't see one) while the toughness of few pieces of red meat in another staple is only matched by the banality and insipidness of the more than ample liquid sauce.

And then there is the divinely Indian, quintessential dish of spinach and cottage cheese. This is a meal that visitors to the subcontinent (and quite obviously inhabitants too) cannot help but fall in love with. Delicately spiced, luxuriantly creamed, and perfectly balanced; with spinach the hero and the wonderfully absorbent paneer as the Robin to the Palak's Batman. Except, of course, in the hands of this restaurant. Supermarket shredded spinach accompanies rubbery cubes of, well, one has to assume rubber. The likelihood that dairy has ventured near this "cheese" is minimal. Disappointment from start to finish.

My frustration over this establishment is that it is not mind blowingly bad.

That would entail rotten meat or cockroaches in your bread.

My frustration is that it is mind blowingly average. No attempt appears to have been made to make good food, not to bother trying to impress a customer. There was, until recently, a far superior Indian restaurant only hundreds of metres away. But the finance behind this affront to authentic dining has crushed it. And that should not only make you sad. It should make you avoid this establishment at all costs and prevail upon all you know to...

We came around 6 pm and offered a table. My son is 9 and he was hesitant, to point at other table - may be manager Reshma (bandaid on her hand) was so rude and said that we are booked for evening and can’t take those tables. You can convey that nicely and I was definitely stopping my son, I understand your operation.Put outside your restaurant that brown Australians are not allowed or will be treated differently than white Australian. It was completely unnecessary attitude and stares , smirks . Don’t judge people by their appearance. Even my son pointed out - she was not nice to me but when other white couple walked in , she was talking to them nicely. I did have to pretend to my son that is not correct . We left at 7 pm and definitely other tables were not occupied. So just a drama and Not fit for hospitality Madam.

Going to food- my social media shows Indian Sri Lankan restaurant. Really not much what you say on menu. Biryani - tossed with raw spices and I can feel raw turmeric in mouth with every bite. All soft veggies -dice tomato , cook and raw onion diced , dice green pepper , few thin slices of carrots and whole masala - please not even close to Pulao.i have no clue with selection of veggies , look like into Indian stir fry rice and can be more creative with veggies for biryani. Chicken tandoori - not from tandoor and microwaved. Bread not even cooked and same story machine not working so no cheese naan. Definitely they were frozen ready made parathas. We had some food and all left there . Overall such a sour experience. Only to save your grace was talking to Olivia where she apologised for experience. The gentleman served no issue.

Here issue is hospitality , welcome everyone . Show respect , think don’t judge- thinking is hard thing and Chef , ask honestly to yourself if this is cooked with love - I don’t want authentic food. Show some respect to ingredients , serve basic food if you can cook. We were close to kitchen window so can clearly hear kitchen and service staff tense word exchange. Grow up guys and save the place !!!!...