Very delightful hostess and wait staff at Lhila conveniently located informal place served us some…read moredelicious south Indian delights. It's really a mix of several Indian cuisines and don't get misled my the name, they have a fairly extensive selection. The do's (1) Please try their vadas (deep fried lentil donuts) as they are fresh and crispy (2) the coconut chutney was really well done (3) yellow lentils are a good preparation as well. Note that entrees are served with rice and salad. (4) one of the mixed vegetable entree had a distinct flavor of some left over fish based preparation - perhaps the same pan was used (we were told that was not the case). In any case, if you are strict vegetarian, please advise the wait staff to ensure proper cleaning. I am sure they would oblige.

Overall, good service and tasty food. The gentleman serving us was very courteous and also…read morecommunicated well in English. English menus are also available upon request. The tea is delicious, sweetened with honey. The soup was great. The chicken biryani was tasty, though perhaps a bit too salty for my taste.

I ordered food today your restaurant. It's not for eatable and it's just west of money. I didn't…read morelike it. I'm not expecting it will be like this I thing you don't know how is it the Indian food. Your daal makhani had gone bad. How did you send back after that? It smalled bad. How anyone can eat this food. I'm not happy with your service. This first time I ordered your restaurant.

Berlin has such a great food scene I thought finding a great Indian spot would be the night's…read moreadventure. After yelping it up, I came across Maharadscha. It took a while to get there and I am SO glad I did. Walking in the owner lady was obviously very busy with the service, but she made sure to stop and welcome me and get me to a table right away. The smell that one is hit with as you enter will give you the smile you know that will come with great Indian food. After looking over the excellent menu offerings, I opted for the duck (ente) tikka. It was sizzling at it hit the table and the only bad thing is that I had to let it cool off just a bit before jumping it. A painful wait. But that said, I absolutely loved it. The duck was perfectly cook and the spice combination was excellent. Just great all the way around. And the owner came by several times to check on me and I know why she is smiling all the time, because everyone is killing what they serve. Well worth the effort to get there.

Really enjoyed the authenticity fo the chaat dishes and the food in general. It's hard to find in…read moremost of the Indian restaurants in Berlin something that tastes like you could have eaten it off the streets in India.

We passed by with the kids and decided to give it a try. Great place. We had 2 thali types. All was…read moredelicious. The stuff were very helpful and nice . great value for money.

A little tough to find on Apple Maps. Just go down and look for the shops under the U. We…read moreenjoyed the Lentil and Tomato soup to start and a mixed Tandoori grill. The tomato soup was great and the lentil was really good. Perfect hit for a cold day out and about in Berlin.

Stopped in for a light dinner. It was happy hour so I ordered a Bahama Mama. I hadn't had one in…read moremany years. It was very well prepared and tasty. For my entree, I ordered the Chicken Mango. It was pretty good but I would have preferred added spiciness. On my second visit, I ordered spicy Daal Makhni. It was fire in my mouth and I loved it! On mys second visit, I also ordered a Merlot. It was so good, I had to get the name of it, Louis Eschensauer Merlot. I can't wait to have this again! After my meal, I was served a mango shot on the house. I don't know what was in it, but it sure tasted great! Service was awesome on both visits (same staff members). Most guests sat outside but it was pretty humid so I elected to sit inside. The location is great, right across from the Alexa Mall.

Hands down one of the best Indian restaurants I have ever ever eaten at. I usually procrastinate…read morewriting these reviews but this got my attention and hopefully gatheres some attention from this review. Where do I start....I look at the menu my attention for appetizer was drawn to pepper chicken fry and my main course was buttered chicken.....family recipe....I was like let's see how good the family recipe is. Oh my gosh....it's amazingly flavorful, perfectly spiced, and that raw chili on top enhanced the whole dish. Warning....if you aren't up for spicy food....let them know beforehand. What can I say.....these dishes especially the pepper chicken took me back to my college days of me visiting street side dhabas. I found the flavors of a streetwise dhaba from India, that seems to have been lost with expansion of cities. I even tried a few years ago in Punjab and couldn't get the feeling or enjoying the food for a long time. If you love indian food and want a real essence of it, you need to make a reservation here!

This is a huge place not too far from the Brandenburg Gate. Classy and quite big, we were seated…read morewithout a reservation. Extremely courteous hostess and wait staff took our order. Very artfully crafted papadums (as a cone) served with delightful garnishes and/or chutneys. Loved the mango chutney (had to get another serving). So the food. Yea, the yellow lentils and the breads were over the top. The malai kofta - not so much. The real issue was kofta - not jived with the gravy and just didn't click with the palatte. My dinning colleague concurred so I would it's not purely personal. All in all, nice place with enough grandeur and decor to make it a great venue for important celebrations. You will like (your wallet may not).

If you're looking for authentic Indian food, on the whole, you'll struggle in Germany. Indian…read morecuisine is adapted for the German palate and as they tend to steer away from anything too spicy, the traditional spiciness that much of Indian food is renowned for, is diluted. What they call onion bhajis in this restaurant are poor, low-quality onion rings. Onion coated in a fatty batter. The spicy dishes like madras, jalfrezi and vindaloo are much the same degree of spiciness and flavour as each other... not very. I have always asked for authentic Indian vindaloo (so HOT), and I think that they just put an extra pinch of chilli powder in the sauce. Very disappointing. All very similar sauces. The chicken I believe (and I might be wrong), is mechanically-recovered chicken. It always has the strangest texture. Slightly slimy too..! Not a quality ingredient at all. Dishes are 'well padded out' with potato. What did it for us at our last (and very last) visit was when my partner ordered a glass of water instead of his usual beer. When the bill came we were horrified to see that we had been charged €4,40 for a glass of water. Not a bottle brought to the table, not a pretentious, fancy Italian brand.. just plain water 'mit'. There aren't many choices of authentic Indian restaurants in Germany, in fact, I haven't come across any but I do object to being ripped off with poor quality ingredients and obscenely over-priced water. As locals who live a short walk from Zaika and have recently visited the restaurant on a weekly basis, we won't be going again. The hunt continues for an 'authentic', quality Indian restaurant in East Berlin.

II feel bad for all the bad ratings for the restaurants in Prenzlauer Berg that habe 4.5+ ratings…read moreon google and yelp. We went to Zaika with low expectations cause the good ratings for restaurants in Prenzlauer Berg didn't really convinced us so far. And unfortunately we were again disappointed and don't understand any of the food ratings. I am still looking for a good Indian restaurant In Berlin. The best dish was the bhatura bread. The appetizer mix is just baked fried greasy oily vegetables served with sauce by the side. Everything is very heavy and we simply didn't enjoy the taste or the protein (fish and shrimp). We left dissatisfied and wished to have rather not eaten at all for dinner and ended up paying 40€. Bottom line: taste and completely not worth it.

Saravanaa Bhavan is one of the great Indian restaurant chains of the world…read more The West is finally starting to appreciate what Saravanaa Bhavan has been trying to do all along. Most great cities now have rivals to Saravanaa Bhavan that command respect. The fact that there are other centers of excellence out there does nothing to diminish Saravanaa Bhavan's historical accomplishment. * * * Saravanaa Bhavan is a chain of South Indian vegetarian restaurants in Chennai that expanded first across India itself, and then followed the Indian diaspora to set up satellite restaurants all over the world. The number of Saravanaa Bhavan's in a city reflects less the overall stature of a city in the global urban hierarchy and more reflects the size of the South Indian population that has migrated to that city. Berlin has one Saravanaa Bhavann. The Dallas Metro area has three. Berlin outranks Dallas in the Global Cities Hierarchy But Dallas has the large population of Tamil immigrants. That said, the successful implantation of Saravanaa Bhavan's all over the world is impressive. They operate nearly 100 restaurants in twenty eight different countries not counting their substantial operations in India itself. * * * Saravanaa Bhavan's culinary accomplishment was twofold. a) They introduced much of the world to South Indian vegetarian food. In much of the world, they would have been the first restaurant to serve dosas, idli, and the distinctive South Indian rather than north Indian curries. b) They introduced much of the world to Indian Chinese food - the reinterpretation of Chinese food that was developed in India. Gobi Manchurian - one of the most intoxicating dishes on the planet - would have had its first serving in many cities in a Saravanaa Bhavan. Their menu was huge. They included North Indian as well as South Indian specialties. You could eat at a Saravanaa Bhavan for weeks and never repeat a dish. And the execution was absolutely positively excellent. Nearly everything that came out of their kitchen was to die for. * * * Saravanaa Bhavan is just as good today as it ever was. However, as the flow of South Indian immigrant professionals grew and grew, the number of South Indian immigrant restauranteurs grew as well. There was money to be made serving the great dishes from home ... And more and more people went to the exotic cities of the world to re-create those fine South Indian dishes in foreign locations. So now all of those cities have many places you can go where you can get absolutely wonderful South Indian and Indian-Chinese vegetarian dishes. I live in Austin, Texas which does not have a Saravanaa Bhavan - but has a vast number of South Indian software engineers, professors and doctors. They eat at Sangam Chettinad which is an absolutely superlative establishment. * * * That said, I will always grab a chance to eat at a Saravanaa Bhavan if there is one in the city I am in. One tip that may be helpful. Don't put your food on the white rice that accompanies most of their dishes. The flavors of Saravanaa Bhavan's dishes are so wonderful that you do not want to dilute them. Putting their food on plain rice is like serving their food on Wonder Bread. Eating their stuff straight up though is like dying and going to heaven. Except that the next day you get reincarnated and can do the same thing again.

It was a fairly busy day and the service could have been better. But the food was amazing. The…read morekurma with the parotta is a must try. My friend who had a dosa for the first time was completely satisfied with the dosa. The chutneys were fantastic as well and the idlis were oh so fluffy. Overall the food is an accurate representation of south Indian fare and I would recommend anyone to try it

Very nice and clean restaurant with friendly staff. The food was delicious. I've had better but…read moreit was good nonetheless. We had the lamb korma with rice and garlic nan and a side of chicken appetizer and I was so full but continued eating. If you sit outside and it's cold, they'll provide you blankets. Drinks were well made and empty plates were picked up everytime. Great service and great food.

We walked past this restaurant every day for 5 days while in Berlin so we decided to give it a try…read moresince we enjoy Indian food. The interior is gorgeous and very well-themed. The host sat us immediately. We ordered a lot because we wanted to try many things. The samosas were great, very tasty. I ordered spicy hot chicken tikka masala - but it wasn't very spicy (the only disappointment of the experience). The bathrooms were fun with a very Indian theme.

Great cute little restaurant, run by a gentleman from Jaffna…read more Great customer service and good food.

I never had Sri Lakan food before and was shocked to find the best dosa I've ever had. It was just…read moremade meticulously with the paneer melting into the potato filling of the dosa and the crispiness of the crepe itself. I've had dosas from many restaurants serving large Indian American communities and I don't think I'll find another place like this. Perhaps I should visit more Sri Lankan places. My dining partner, a Berlin native, never had dosas before and didn't know what to take of it but did remark I was trying to burn his mouth off with the papadum that was coated in chili powder and corresponding chutneys. Heh. That scared him. The restaurant even gave us shots of Patron tequila on the house as an appertif after finding out I was visiting from Texas. Gracias, Senor. Gracias.

Darling restaurant. Ate upstairs. Our server with the tight curls "D" was very nice. Our food was…read moreexcellent. Served hot and fresh. We adjusted for more spice. The flavors were abundant. The portion size more than enough. It was comfortable. No rush. The prices reasonable. Would definitely recommend and return.

Very great service and AMAZING food! I recommend this for everyone who is craving Indian food or in…read morethe Berlin area. Paneer butter masala was very delicious as well as their other popular foods!! Everything on their menu is either vegetarian or vegan so this is a perfect place for all the vegetarians/vegans!