Maison de l'Inde — Restaurant in Mulhouse

Positives: Water, rice, service. Negatives: Food, Menu, Attention to detail.

Decor/Ambiance/Service: Small restaurant on the Bourgfelden side of Saint Louis. Served by the Tram 3 from Basle. Nice little terrace area along one side of the restaurant. Inside the decor is very basic, toilets are reasonably good. Service was friendly and fast.

Food: The menu was clumsy with multiple pages of the same dishes in which only the type of meat was varied. It would have been simpler to state their 4 or 5 house curries with a choice of meats. We ordered a chicken madras and a chicken korma with one naan bread and a large bottle of water. All main meals come with rice. The prices from the menu were 12 euros for the madras, 14 for the korma, 3 for the plain naan. The water and the rice were good. The naan was described on the menu as having been cooked in an authentic wood-burning tandoor. The menu gave the impression that the naan was made on site. My best guess is that it was a commercial product that came in plastic wrapping and was cooked in a standard oven or on the hob. It is unlikely that it was cooked in a wood-burning tandoor on site (I’d be interested to know whether they have one) as it arrived at the table crispy on the outside and flat, tandoors are round and the bread is cooked stuck to the outside edges of the oven interior. Madras curry is a classic, everyone knows it is, so it is on every Indian restaurant menu (or everyone knows it is because it is served in every Indian restaurant). It’s there for a reason, it’s quick and easy to prepare/cook, it’s great and it sells. Classically it contains cloves, cardamon, onion, chilli, fresh ginger, garlic, turmeric, cumin and coriander. In restaurants, it’s often cooked from a prepared base, but it is always cooked after the order is placed. It isn’t a sauce in a pan waiting to be warmed up and poured over the meat. This madras was truly shocking, it had nothing to do with madras. I’ve had tomato soup from a can that tasted more like authentic Indian cooking than the madras I was served at Maison d’Inde. It was, without doubt, the worst Indian food I have ever had. In my view, its only connection with Indian cuisine was the fact that they called it a madras. It is the first time that I have found myself completely at odds with the views of the vast majority of google reviewers. It is clear that I am very much in the minority with these views and I am...

I came back there after 5 years, see if anything has changed, unfortunately not much, but it is still a popular place for reasons I cannot understand 🤷🏻‍♂️.

Tables and location are clean, service is efficient, but don't think that what you will get this traditional Indian food you are craving for.

Even if all the classic curries and dishes can be found on the menu, you'll only find a bland version of them in your plates. The dishes are lacking of the characteristic spices, and the unique taste of Indian cuisine. I suspect use of artefacts like cream, carrot puree and low-quality spices. The menu states that the chef adapts recipes to the local tastes, but so much has eventually been lost in this transformation, and the recipes lost their soul... I was so...

First of all, the deliver asked us how much our command cost because he did not know it. Then, we learned that there is 5€ delivery cost, indicated nowhere on the website (a bit expensive for a 5min drive). To finish, we did not receive a receipt, even if our command was more that 25€TTC.

The shrimps were really gummy, without taste and the curry was nothing special (knowing several other delicious indian restaurants).

Anyway, we hope that we were just unlucky and that our (long) comment will allow you to improve on all these points Sorry for the bad rating we couldn't put...