Satyam — Restaurant in Berlin

Went again to this restaurant a couple of days back and have a few points to share both positive and negative. For the positive I just have good atmosphere with comfortable chairs. For the negatives, I have quite a few points. They have just 1 waitress and she is over-burdened with work, making her unpleasant to the customers at times (atleast to me and my friends). I had tried North Indian dishes a few years back and they were good. But this time I went for south Indian food (since they have a large variety of them), and it was just average. Their Masala Dosa and Rava Dosa look and taste the same. Rather, their Rava Dosa did not even have Rava in them. When asked why is it so, the waitress said this is not India, you cannot find the same taste here. To which I agree, but charging more for Rava Dosa and just giving any Dosa doesn't make sense. At least it should have the important ingredients. The owner is super rude. After asking the waitress to cross check in the kitchen if there was any mistake, the owner came out with two Gits packet saying this is how we make Dosa. I was surprised that a restaurant with so many South Indian dishes is using a packaged mix in a restaurant. After expressing my surprise, he said "I cannot make fresh dosa mix for just one customer". This did hurt a bit but that is fine too. 😅 Anyway, the discussion went on for sometime but nothing fruitful so I said thank you for the explanation, completed my food and left the place. I think it would simply be best to state that you use packaged product and not charge so much. These packaged products are not so expensive and very easy to make at home. If I would have wanted that I would have not come to any restaurant and pay at least 5-6 times the cost. Also be nice to...

Totally unprofessional service. I went to this restaurant couple of times but useless service. He is treating his customer at least Asians non important. For example 1) multiple times he ask for cash instead of card payment 2) when I asked for tap water he sarcastically said who is providing tap water in Germany. Totally disgusting answer. 3) once I went with my friends he denied sitting on cushion seats instead forced us to seat on wooden bench. 4) whatever chutney he provides for dosa is very cold . Looks like taken out of refrigerator I would like to tell this owner I am not taking free service from him and paying money for his service and trust me he is not doing ‘upkar’ by providing Indian food to me . But I am doing upkar on his restaurant by visiting it when multiple other good restaurants available...

Before you go in there are bunch of stickers saying cards are accepted (wow Berlin is modern!). So we went in and had our food which was just ok. At the end we asked to pay with card and they were like no you cannot! And we didn’t have any cash! Guy was like the PoS is not working (oh really????) and we said ok we don’t have any. And suddenly he was like oh let me see maybe it works!!! And magic! Indian god helped it to work!! Wow! The point is people live in this society benefiting from tax payers but they don’t want to contribute. To me, the fact is the Pos was working but he didn’t want to record the number of sales he makes. Ridiculous and disrespectful. My take is that I won’t go again when the costumer is not treated...