Chennai Srilalitha — Restaurant in London

We went here on the recommendation of friends and had high hopes. I wouldn't bother going, we won't be visiting again and would give zero stars if I could. Starters were: Dahi puri: Yoghurt was bland and tiny amount of sauces so very plain tasting. Our home-made is so much tastier than this attempt at dahi puri. Chilli paneer: too much tomato in the sauce. Very wet dish and paneer was soggy and dish was not chilli. Samosa chaat: hot chana on squashed samosas. Barely any sauces or spices. Lacking flavour. Gobi manchurian: bright red. Soggy gobi. Sauce lacking in flavour. Jug of mango lassi: This was chilled and acceptable.

Paneer dosa: Soft bland paneer filling Chilli cheese chips dosa: This was literally chips, some grated cheese and little bit of chopped green chillies inside a dosa. Quite bland as chillies tasted like capsicum peppers, not green chillies. Not chilli chips (like chilli paneer with a chilli sauce on - which is what we expected) Paper dosa: A large crispy paper dosa. Sambar was plain and had no vegetables in it. Red chutney was oily. Green and white chutneys were passable.

Vegetarian special dosa: Soggy lettuce, spring onions, uncooked pieces of lumpy paneer and maybe some shredded raw cabbage drowned in a Vegetarian mayonnaise. So much so that all you could taste was the mayonnaise in the dosa. This was truly one of the worst dishes we have ever ordered, anywhere... equivalent to a child pouring a bottle of mayonnaise inside a dosa and throwing some raw salad in too. Yuk! I've now seen a previous reviewer wrote about this dosa too. I should have checked before visiting.

Overall, the food was awful to mediocre. The group next to us were very loud so we could barely hear each other. The floor was covered in sticky food, water spills and was dirty. Staff passed food to us to give to our group rather than walking around the table and serving individuals themselves. They were fairly attentive but that's no reason to visit if the food is dire.

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Been coming here for years

It's generally always good to excellent.

Much better than many other South Indian restaurants.

The Buffet is very good yet would be nice to have a little more options yet it's still very good ie taste wise.

The Uppma is sometimes excellent, and on occasions a bit bland.

The main thing is off course their DOSA which is always great especially their Sambhar.

The Rasam is quite good, nothing special.

Customer Service is excellent, as the manager is a great guy and I've noticed they always employ nice people.

Edit: Sep 2022

I’d say this is the best restaurant in the whole of London for the variety of Dosa’s. They do all the usual ones yet in the menu they also have another section with another 12 types of speciality Dosa. They also do ones with whole green gram as the base for the crepe. Not many South Indian restaurants use this as the base for Dosa. Most only ever use Rice. Here they use both. It’s difficult to say if they are the best in the London yet I’d say with confidence that for variety and quality this is a top 5, if not, then top 10 South Indian restaurant in London.

Summary: choice of Dosa galore. About 20 in the normal section of the menu and abt 12 special ones in another section. quite a big menu since they have plenty of other dishes tasty 💯😋

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Great food and amazing taste Non pricey and variety of menu. It's pure vegetarian and food is lip smacking. We ordered Kids Dosa, Paneer 65, Chole Bhautre, mysore masala dosa and strawberry Milkshake.

There was a queue before entering. However the wait time was only for 10 minutes.

We enjoyed the food. Update on 01 Feb 2025 Took all my 5 stars. This is not at all 5 star. We had bad experience today.

We ordered Hakka Noodles, Panner Manchurian, paper roast, onion rawa masala, mysore masala Dosa and paw Bhaji. The taste of Chinese food was amazing. Coming to South Indian dishes, paper roast was not that tasty. Sambar was not at all eatable. The paw bhaji was tasteless. My kid was not able to eat a single dish. He eats paw Bhaji in all resturants. But in the first bite, he said I can't eat. I tasted as well and it was like so bad. We asked them to change the paw Bhaji and the server said this is south Indian restaurant, and it taste like this. I said it's so ridiculous to hear that. We ate paw Bhaji earlier as well but it was pathetic. We had lot of discussion on the same and finally it was annoying. I am not visiting this restaurant again for...