Saravanaa Bhavan — Restaurant in Munich

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...

Did not taste as good as it looks 😒 and please dont visit on weekends. Too crowded and that tiny kitchen couldnt handle the expectation filled large crowd.

Only the "white coconut chutney" and the dosa tasted good. The saravana Bhavan reputation is not well kept here.. This could be named Dosa Kadai.. even the "mint chutney" they offered was awful (prepared with dry mint or preserved mint) made me puke 😪

The "Tomato curry" that was given with Dosa's was a concoction of tomato onion and cornstarch slurry 😭😭😭

Sambar was a No comment 🤕 (dai sambar la Dal kaanum ??? (En kinaru eh kaanum- Vadivelu comedy Moment))

And my 5 year old ordered for a "Rava Kesari" and it only had hell lotta oil (not a drop of ghee), rava, sugar, food color ( no kesar nor cardamom flavour). Even my son mentioned not to try that dish here again.🤢

Do not order "Parotta curry- its just frozen parotta and the same kuruma that we had we channa batura and a cup of Potato Masal which was already given with Masal Dosa. (I remember days when I mix match leftovers and make a meal outta it🤭 only mom's can relate)

Then here comes the important dish "SWEET LASI" it was like leftove yoghurt left in the refrigerator for a few days with a open container where the smell or other food is infused.🤢 and [[The Manager asked me why dint you finish your glass and I asked him if he was an Indian and have he ever tasted sweet Lasi before. And he did taste it and he returned my 3Euro. I wish he could have asked me how was the whole meal and he could have returned 50% of the meal price..]] my pity Husband spent 65 above euro on this PATHETIC EXPECTATION OF OURS.

Atleast for the sake of keeping up South Indian's Expectation and Reputation👍 (i saw so many Germans standing in the long queue and so many filled inside the Restaurant. I felt pity), I Hope they can improvise and so I can visit every...

disgusting food I went there to eat with my daughter. We had just arrived there and ordered mango lassi as soon as we left. And at the same time I ordered Medu vada, pav Bhaji Dosa and Noodles.Within the next one to two minutes, he brought mango lassi.We had just started drinking the mango lassi when our food arrived.As soon as I put the first spoonful of Pav Bhaji dosa in my mouth, its taste was absolutely disgusting.Then I tried the noodles but they were also rubbish. The noodles and pav bhaji dosa were made a long time ago and were not fresh.I called the waitress standing there and told her that this food is not fresh because it tastes so bad. She replied that no, this food is fresh. I told her that if this food was fresh, you wouldn't have given me three plates of food in five minutes, Because it always takes time to prepare fresh food, but she said that we have different chefs and they prepare food quickly.I finished half my pav bhaji dosa with great difficulty but my daughter didn't eat anything there. Later I ordered her tea but she brought the tea within the next two minutes. I understood from that that nothing is fresh here, everything is already prepared because Indian tea takes 10 to 15 minutes to prepare and tea doesn't come prepared in two minutes.The taste of that tea was even more useless than that food. I told the waitress to make my bill and leave because I was very angry. I paid a bill of 54 euros for that food. The Saravana Bhavan restaurant which is in the Frankfurt, their food is very fresh and tasty. but their food which is in the Saravana Bhavan restaurant Munich, their food is very bad. I will never...