Red Elephant — Restaurant in Athens

To start with, each table is given a small plate of papadums with three sauces, on the house. The meat dishes are all excellent and, unlike at many Indian places in Athens, the meat is high-quality, served without bones or fat, cut into manageable chunks and swimming in sauce. I love the chicken tikka masala, an explosion of flavours, including tomato, coconut and paprika, with a coriander aftertaste. The side dish of raita is made with Greek yogurt and cucumbers that sing. The rice comes in hefty portions; we strongly recommend the pilau, which has a strong yellow colour from the saffron used and a wonderful aromatic taste from the cardamom. The naan breads are an ode to fluffiness; the best is Red Elephant’s version of peshwari naan: filled with coconut and raisins, it’s a good choice for cooling off the burn from the other dishes.

It is the lack of tricks so often seen at other Indian restaurants in the city (at Red Elephant, water is served gratis from a jug, instead of being sold in bottles, for example), generous portions, and the use of high-quality, fresh ingredients, as well as Imran’s deep respect for his customers, that make this restaurant truly stand out and have solidified its popularity. That’s an immigrant success story that diners of all culinary backgrounds...

Went there for the first time with my family to celebrate. On 2 items we ordered, after waiting about half an hour they said they don't have them available and we had to order something else. The mixed meat platter cost 16 euros and you can see by the picture what portion this is, I mean even if you go to a more fancy restaurant I believe with this much you can get a bigger portion. The foods almost didn't have salt, the appetiser they brought it after the main course it was a total chaos. Literally 30 euros and my time wasted. All they were focusing was their only...

We decided to stop in and get dinner on our walk back to our Airbnb, The dining room itself only had one other table with customers and they looked to have been finished, but the staff did seem to have a lot of "to go" orders being made, so we tried to be understanding of that; however, we were barely able to get the waiters attention long enough to order our drinks, and after waiting for half an hour and trying to get the waiters attention during that time so we could place our order, we decided to leave. The mango lassie I had was good, but that's all I...