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!

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.

Food was reasonably priced and quite tasty. I enjoyed the paneer tikka and paneer makhani. We…read morehad a variety of naan - all tasty. While they declined the Yelp check in bonus (10%) off food, my experience was still enjoyable.

We ordered vegetarian/vegan food. Number 35 and 33. skip number 33 and go with 35 in case you are…read morethinking about getting veg food. The portions are small for 11€. The garlic naan was not hot and nothing special. I'd recommend to order spicy next time if you like it spicy. "A little bit spicy" literally means not spicy at all. Service was not very attentive and didn't speak German which is fine. Overall ok experience. Nothing outstanding or crazy. But I'd give it another chance since the dishes very nice but small portions.

Large inexpensive portions of flavorful Indian food in a warm and cosy environment. We enjoyed the…read moremeal, except it was impossible to get a glass of Leitungswasser from the sink. Food was medium spicy, felt like they were holding back with the spices a little. Enjoyed everything we ordered.

My university is very close by and that's why I am very very often. Ashoka doesn't have a crazy big…read moremenu, it isn't big and it isn't fancy. The food is good! Everything they offer is well seasoned and super cheap. I always order a vegetarian dish and my favourite is Palak Paneer so far. Since knowing this place I rarely go to any other indian restaurants which are overpriced. 5€ for a good Palak Paneer is hard to beat and I haven't found another venues who can justify their prices by actual quality.

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.

Make sure to go on the weekend and order their specials. The atmosphere is always friendly and the…read moreservers have never made a mistake.

Came here last night with a friend after trying to find a decent place to have dinner around 23h…read more The waiter was super friendly and welcoming. We had a nice chat while placing our order for takeaway. Food was delicious. So delicious that I came back again the next day. Had the chicken saag tonight while dining out on the patio -- with the daal soup. Had the chicken tikka masala the night before. Recommended!! :)

Good Service and delicious food, all of the waiter spoke good english and explained everything very…read morewell. Highly recommend indian restaurant.

Paneer Tikka war ausgezeichnet, der Service sehr freundlich und hilfsbereit, das Ambiente schlicht…read moreetwas indisch angehaucht, das Preis-Leistungsverhältnis sehr gut, wahrscheinlich durch die Studenten im Umfeld inspiriert ;-)

My first night in Berlin came after a marathon transatlantic journey from San Francisco, so I was…read morein no mood to explore what I initially saw as a labyrinth metro system. Luckily I was staying in the somewhat stylish albeit quiet Charlottenburg district. Dining choices were either exorbitant or nonexistent at 8PM, but now that Yelp is in Germany, I was able to find Manjurani just a few doors down from Hotel Otto on Knesebeckstrasse. Indian food in Germany? Fine by me since I really didn't come to Berlin for the local food anyway. It turned out to be a surprisingly satisfying Indian restaurant with reasonable prices. The German touch came in the form of the beer garden picnic benches in front where naturally all the youth gravitated. Otherwise the interior looked like a Pier One fire sale with lots of silken, jewel-colored throw pillows and wall hangings. The waiter is fluent in several languages from what I could hear, and fortunate for me, English is one of them. They offer a robust menu heavily in need of translation, although I went with two foolproof dishes I would have ordered anywhere. The Tandoori Chicken (6.90 Euros) came out sizzling hot on an iron pan covered in aluminum foil (see photo). It was quite tender with plenty of peppers. The standout, however, was the Shahi (Lamb) Korma (8.90 Euros), which came with generous chunks of meat swimming in a pool of a thick coconut sauce (see photo). The two dishes came with a side salad that I had never seen in an Indian restaurant - a cole slaw-type concoction heavy with yellow peppers, onions, and a runny mayo-like sauce (see photo). Sue me, I liked it. Actually I liked the dinner enough to join the other two Yelpers in Manjurani's support camp. FOOD - 4 stars...hearty, tasty Indian food can be found in Berlin AMBIANCE - 3.5 stars...who's sari now? SERVICE - 4 stars...treated me like one classy tourist TOTAL - 4 stars...namaste, Berlin!

Portions are small. Service sucks and prices are high. Food was ok, I had a lamb curry dish and it…read moretook forever to come and the bhati bread was not fully cooked. The curry was bland and the meat tasted old there were a few pieces of it to begin with not enough to justify the higher price. Seemed like the table of 20 people who came after me got all the attention and hence the bad service but those people were for sure tourist and perhaps they will come back some day but I live in Berlin and will not go back as the food and service were below what I expect. We had to wait very long just to order our drinks then they took a long time even thou the bar is right behind our table. The waiter never once asked us if we needed anything and we needed extra silverware and napkins that dude was rude if you ask me,never again.

Service was really bad. After waiting for a long time to eat, half our order was forgotten. The…read morefood was below average!!

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.

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