Maa Indian Restaurant - Marbella — Restaurant in Marbella

We visited this restaurant expecting a good experience, but left feeling completely disrespected.

Although we had a reservation we still had to wait 20 minutes to be seated. Once we had ordered, we were left waiting almost an hour for our food. No updates, no apology, no sense of urgency. To make things worse, we weren’t even given plates or serviettes.

When we asked a second time about how long the food would take, one of the waiters, Rumil, had a completely uncalled for outburst, raising his voice at us in front of the entire restaurant. Everyone turned to stare. It was embarrassing and unnecessary. His excuse was that one dish was grilled (the table next to us came about half hour after us and also ordered a grilled dish which came within minutes after ours).

We were visibly the only brown people in the restaurant, and the way we were treated would never have been directed at a white family, and the double standards was loud and clear.

Due to the way we were treated we were scared to ask for anything else (serviettes/napkins/more beverages).

As for the food: •    The fish tikka was bland and flavourless. •    The chicken kadhai was actually good, and the garlic naan was decent. •    But the mango lassi? Just a watery mess. Mango Lassi is meant to be a thick, creamy drink however the drink we were served was mango iced water.

Waiters Salman and Shoman were understanding...

So for a little context, I ordered from Just Eat. The time from order to delivery was about 9 - 10 o'clock. It ended up being 110 EUR for four currys and a couple sides, which is pretty expensive.

Upon delivery, with the payment method being cash, the order was cancelled after receiving my food, which I found pretty odd.

I later found out this is a dirty tactic used to prevent customers from asking for refunds and opening other similar disputes.

Here's why I gave it -100/5 stars: the food was cooked poorly, the portions were very small in relation to the price, no fresh ingredients were used, some dishes were insanely spicy coming from a guy who eats and grows peppers. Everyone who ate or even pecked at the food had the unpleasant gift of diarrhea (which I'm still suffering from a day later and at the time of writing this).

My words of advice to this resturant is to shutdown before you kill someone and to send your chefs back to India to learn how to cook.

If you're looking for disappointment, I think this is the perfect place for you and...

One of the BEST Indian Restaurants in Europe! Truth to be told, the food is so great, that we schedule a trip annually to go there and enjoy authentic Indian food with a chef's twist. My kids appealed to eat there every day for two weeks. Eventually I settled in the middle ;) Every other day, and the food was impeccably tasty even till the last day.

There is a true wide variety of choices, the chefs put in their own twist on some of the dishes. You can see and taste that they use fresh produce. The service of the staff is amazing as well and you can enjoy your food both inside or outside.

Mind you we are prepared to fly from Amsterdam to Nueva Andalucia for this...