I was really excited to visit this place as I was craving for proper South Indian food and Saravana Bhavan chain is known for it and the one in Frankfurt gave us a pretty good experience. But sadly, the Munich branch was a disappointment.

All started from the time we entered. There was confusion among the waiters as one waiter asked if we had reservation and before we could even reply he walked away handing over us to another waitress. Left us pretty clueless and it reeked a bit of rudeness.

The waitress was polite and showed us to our table . We just sat and got our menus handed to us and just a minute later, the other waiter comes asking us for our order. Let us atleast look at the menu!

After 5 minutes we gave our order to the waitress. We had ordered Gobi 65, Mysore Masala Dosa and Onion Utthapam.

The Masala Dosa was served within no time. Good? No! It was a bit cold and very soggy like it was kept to wait for sometime. But atleast was lukewarm and tasted good (Dosa,masala and the white coconut chutney) The green chutney and the tomato chutney are not that great.

The Onion Utthapam came sometime after the Masala Dosa and this tasted good ( same comments about the chutneys)

After this we waited for almost 20 minutes for our Gobi 65 and it never came. Then the waitress came to ask of we want to order anything and when we said we had ordered Gobi 65, we found out that she had not taken that dish order in her tab at all ( Simple mistakes like this happens to everyone and she sweetly apologized , so it's okay). So we ordered the Gobi 65 again and she said that it is more like a pakoda and if you want Gobi Manchurian then you can order the Manchurian.

Apparently there are 3 types of Manchurian. Dry, semi gravy and gravy. We were told that the gravy does not have a good review so we ordered Semi gravy. (The waitress told us to give feedback later about this dish). This came with a bowl of rice! And this dish is why I mainly decided to write this long review. The most bad smelling dish with no taste ever. It literally smelt like rotten cauliflower. And we tried eating it because we are paying almost 9€ to it. But at one point, we couldn't eat it all. Two people couldn't finish even half of that dish.

And when it came to the billing part, there was literally no one that we could reach out to ask for the bill. Had to wait for sometime. And the waiter from the door came to us with the bill and we left. (The difference in treatment between Indian and Non Indians by few staff is clearly shown in the hospitality. Though no one was harsh, you can still feel the difference. I guess if the food was good, this would have gone unnoticed. But if I'm writing a review,might as well put it out there about this)

And the waitress who asked for our feedback, she was really busy tending other tables so we couldn't really give our feedback about the Manchurian but Hey! If you are reading this, just so you know , it was one of the most horrible dishes I have ever eaten!

I'll probably stick to eating South Indian dishes in Saravana Bhavan (Which was also okayish in this branch)

PS: I am a South Indian so I know my dosas and chutneys :D