Swaad Restaurant Berg am Laim — Restaurant in Munich

!!We had the terrible expierence!! I visited Swaad Berg am Laim on 8 June 2025 (Sunday evening), expecting the same warm hospitality I’d enjoyed always at Swaad Pasing. I want to give absolute 0 stars if given an option. Here’s exactly what happened:

I called ahead to reserve a table for myself, two friends and their toddler—everyone was excited to try this highly rated Maharashtrian cuisine. They confirmed over the phone, asked to come in an hour and so we showed up even in the rain.

Upon arrival, the man at the door (who claimed to be the owner) flatly said, “No reservation". He was very rude, and refused to even listen. He demanded to see my call log. When I handed it over, he denied receiving the call and shrugged it off. He said normally he is the one who picks the call but since there was proof, he said it must have been “someone else" who picked the call. We explained we’d come a long way with a baby in tow. No apologies, no offer to help. I wonder they treat this way to even local German customers.

He repeated “there’s no place for us” and, when pressed due to call proof, told us to stand by the bar “and maybe we’ll have a table”—with no idea when that might be. Upon asking approx when we can get the table he then escalated: “Thanks for coming by,” and threatened to call the cops when I questioned his blatant mismanagement. I told him, “Go ahead—at least I’m asking fair questions about your reservation management and the way he treated us”.

He had absolutely no respect to talk to customers. The restaurant had lot of non indian guests, so he was worried if there would be any heated discussion, hence he threatened me with cops. Immidiately after this disgraceful exchange, he finally pointed to an empty table. First he tried to show us the door, then, only when cornered, he offered a table. No customer will eat after such a bitter expierence. If he really is the owner, God help his business sense.

Double standards were on full display: a group of non-Indian guests in front of us who had actually booked for 2 but came 3 were greeted calmly and seated immediately, while we were stonewalled.

It’s clear the original Swaad Maharashtrian founder has handed the reins to someone who doesn’t understand respect or fairness. I will never return to Swaad nor recommend it. I may not be a celebrity reviewer who can impact their business with my comments, but today they lost a customer for good. This was the first time I witnessed such a disgrace. Again, we had not gone to restuarant without reservation, we were well within our rights to demand the reason for their mismanagement especially when we are treated so rudely. We saw very few empty tables initially but never questioned him trusting their table assignment skills.

@Swaad Management: Please don’t treat your fellow indians "less", we equally deserve the respect you shower to non-indian guests.

@Google: I’ve attached my call log and a photo of the restaurant as proof of our visit—no bill, since we weren’t served. Please retain this review and don’t censor it after some years. Future diners deserve to...

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We are frequent customer of Swaad Restaurant at Pasing.

Visited this restaurant in Berg am Liam 3 times by 02 Nov since it's inauguration on 18 Oct. The main attraction was the taste of food but had a bitter experience in the last visit on 02 Nov.

No doubt the food taste is good here but with increased number of guest we felt the food quality goes down. We invited 3 families there for dinner. The booking was done 1 week in advance for 12 people. When we went on the booked date at 6 PM we were told our booking was only till 9 PM and we must vacate by 8.45 PM as they had more guest coming at 9 PM. This was quite deceiving move. Had the restaurant told me earlier about this, I would have looked for some other place. Since my guests also didn't know about this in advance they came 15-20 mins late and then we had to rush to order drinks, starters, main course, dessert etc. It was a rush rush and our guests also did not like the way they had to do things fast just to accommodate other guest. I think the restaurant didn't wanted to lose guests so they put a restriction on the time one could have food but this should have been told to me in advance. Not at the eleventh minute when I could not do anything.

Also the food quality and quantity was not as good as the previous 2 times we visited them. Some dishes (Mix grill platter is not worth 21€). Some drinks were only Ice and very little of Mojito in it. Drinks in general are 11-12€ each which is a bit high in comparison to other Indian restaurants. In Desserts though they have written Faluda (Kulfi, Chiku, Sitafal) they served only 1 common Faluda. Chat quantity was too less for the price.

All in all for taste and ambience you should visit the restaurant but if you are looking for quantity vs price then there are more places...