Tandoori Palace — Restaurant in Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Friedrichshafen

Edit: To tell me humanity doesn't have a conscience to refugee crisis because I complained about someone smelling like fetal matter in your establishment mid-meal is hypocrital considering you removed them and showed a greater lack of the so-called "conscience" you piously harp about... How's this? I work with refugees across the globe! And have no issue at all with someone running away from conflict - oh and FYI cleanliness or lack thereof isn't something linked to refugees. These homeless individuals were BEGGARS! Do not equate a refugee to someone aggressively begging! If you cared about refugees, I'm sure you'd have found some scheme to feed them and I'd be okay. However these were people coming over to the table BEGGING!!! Coming here pretending to be some holier than thou individual...

When someone goes to a restaurant, they expect a certain atmosphere. And being begged for food and money, by someone who stinks as I eat isn't exactly something I pay to experience. I happily donate my time and skills to shelters, including monetarily. And know decency in the homeless even.

Now back to my review.

The place sucks. The homeless individuals constantly walking in, begging and stinking up mid-meal made me gag. The food was okay nothing special. The naan bread was good. The roti was dry, slightly over-burnt and perhaps works for others.The lamb was also slightly hard and chewy. The paneer wasn't as smooth as we liked it. I make better paneer at home. The litchi juice tasted like a cordial mix flavoured drink.

It's not the type of place I'd go back to unless it was the only thing in an hour radius for Indian food and I was too lazy to make my own (with the edit.. I'd rather die of starvation than eat there again).

I don't know about it being authentically Indian, but it tasted less Indian and more homemade Indian attempt with the strong tomato...

Good stuff first, the Shahi paneer was tasty. The prawns starter(jhinga) was tasty as well but the portion was very small (just 3 prawns). The butter naan was good as well. We were also given a table quickly even though we didn't have a reservation.

In general, like most Indian restaurants in Germany, this place is not authentic. However, it is more overpriced than others and the portions are quite small.

The butter chicken gravy felt like the tomato concentrate paste from the supermarket, very sour without any balancing of flavours. As already mentioned by another reviewer, the tandoori chicken was a little too burnt in places (the flavour was good though). The samosa were really bad too. Unlike the butter naan, the garlic naan was too dry (no butter or ghee spread on it).

I cannot compare this restaurant to other places in Friedrichshafen as I was just a short term tourist but it does feel more like a tourist trap kind of restaurant without any attention to authenticity. I hope they make a little more effort in their cooking to really do well with the potentially nice dishes they have...

Being from the UK (surely the natural home of the exported Indian/Bangladeshi/Pakistani curry?) it's always interesting to try curries outside the UK with their local interpretations. I tried my 'reference meal' which has a Chicken Tikka starter with some kind of enhanced Dahl (Aloo Chana in this case) and a plain Naan.

First of all we had a free (forgot to check so at a minimum an 'unasked for') masala pappadum with a really excellent, zingy chilli pickle, amongst others. The chicken had a good amount of flavour but sadly was a really dry affair. The Dahl was good and I enjoyed mopping it up with the fairly uninspiring naan. 'Uninspiring' because it just wasn't the fresh, fluffy, loveliness that they can be.

All washed down with a large Radler (note: no alcohol served) it...