Maharani South Indian Restaurant & Caterers — Restaurant in Preston

BEWARE OF HIDDEN / INFLATED PRICES WHICH YOU MAY MISS!

Pro’s: The food quality I couldn’t fault. Everything was as I would have hoped, tasted great and was piping hot. The people service were friendly.

Con’s: The biggest con was the disagreement me and my friends had with a hidden cost of egg rice. We just asked for egg rice like you would pilau, but they charged us £7.50 each! (For which they vehemently blamed us and pumped up the prices they tried to say we ordered) they claimed no person has ever asked for egg rice so they ended up charging us for special fried rice (because not everything can be on the menu, so the owner told us) but didn’t care to tell us she was about to serve us this special £7.50 rice instead of a standard £2-3 rice which you always order with your meal. So you’d end up paying the same price for rice as you would a chicken curry, bizarre. Never heard of this kind of pricing.

What was astonishing is how she tried to blame us for not reading correctly and not understanding how her “unique” restaurant worked - maybe she meant by the way of hiding costs and items so you feel embarrassed so you pay for expansive rice. Which they deemed had more species and was larger - it was the same size as it was served in the same rice bowls. She never wanted to admit her fault or try explain any mix up, it was all our fault and we should pay no matter what.

I won’t go here again as you can clearly tell as it was embarrassing to be told, as grown men, how we don’t have a clue how pricing is done, in their specific restaurant, and they didn’t once try solve the situation. Seeing £15 for two normal pots of rice is not how I wanted to spend my money - I am the first to think this, as she told me persistently. It was a...

We came here on Saturday the 29th after booking a table online. When we arrived they were not aware of our reservation and it took a few minutes for us to be seated. They weren't busy and there was plenty of tables free.

The floor throughout was very slippy, I'm assuming they'd waxed it or something but We had to walk cautiously to avoid slipping. We ordered and was then told a few minutes later they had no pakoras, disappointed.

Our poppadoms came with a Chutney tray. With consisted of two mango Chutneys, onion's and some other dip that resemblanced a medicine taste. There was no mint yoghurt or chilli sauce. The chicken tikka starter and the other recommended starter came and they were nice.

However, I'd ordered a chicken tikka rogan josh and couldn't eat it, it tasted like chicken cooked in a marinara sauce, not resembling a rogan josh at all.

We weren't asked at any point if our food was okay either.

We asked for the bill and was told to go and pay at the reception to pay. Once round there we had to wait again for a few minutes whilst a man had to manually type everything individual we'd ordered into the till. We were not asked if everything has been ok at this point either.

Unfortunately our experience was not a great one and we would not return.

The staff were pleasant, but not...

Me and my mate went there on a Tuesday. We traveled almost 70 miles to reach as people were posting reels about the restaurant. I would comment the choice as a DISASTER.

We ordered " Fish Pollichathu " , which they served in a banana leaf , as a mallu I was giving too much expectation before opening the item, the entire fish was just a fillet covered with 1 kg of Onion with loads of semi cooked Indian masala. Genuinely it is NOT a recommending item from my side.

The "Beef Ularthyathu" was the second item I ordered, unlike the above,this time we were lucky as we got many coconut pieces and the rest of the onion from above along with 2 beef piece each. " Tholpichu kalanju njngale '

The poratta was too nice and tasty.

Overall it was NOT a worth to money buying option when comparing with quality and quantity of Food being served.

NOTE : (To so called Food Vloggers) don't give over hype to people when your Machan and Mamen is...