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.

An absolutely outstanding Pakistani restaurant…read more Everything on our table was completely outstanding. But I am going to talk about one and only one dish. The Tandoori Duck. * * * We don't usually do Tandoori duck in the U.S., Although exceptions undoubtedly exist. Germany has the advantage of having excellent ducks Which we don't And having duck being very plentiful on the market. The contrast is that goat, which is common on American Indian-Pakistani menus, almost never shows up on such menus here. Here, you also get mutton. So Duck and Mutton are the two "dark meats" that substitute for goat in Berlin. * * * In a tandoori, Duck is absolutely positively amazing. Triple that if you are dealing with a superior duck with a nice lining of fat over the breast bone. * * * Add to that the fact that the tandoori I have had in Berlin has generally been superior no matter where I get it. The tandoori of my youth tended to be a dry affair with red color meat pure and simple. It was cooked enough to get hot. Otherwise it was nothing special - and it was dry to boot. This is not the tandoori of my youth. All of the tandoori I have been served here in Berlin has had outstanding sauces. The Berlin tandoori also has had vegetables tossed in with the meat. The veggies are cooked to al dente perfection and are bursting with flavor. Is this because Berlin tandoori is better than American tandoori? Or is this because tandoori cooking has gotten better than the grim dishes I used to eat thirty years ago? I don't have an answer to that question. * * * Either way, Put a perfect duck into a tandoori over. Add the perfect sauce. Add vegetables cut at the right size to al dente. You die and go to heaven. But mostly the thrills are the duck, the duck, the duck and then the duck. My wife's food was good, and the other Yelpers say the food is good. So you can't go wrong ordering whatever you like. I still say: Get the Tandoori Duck.

This place is incredible, a great place to watch sports, TOP tier service, visiting Berlin they…read moretreated us as family when we first met, incredible drinks and food, atmosphere is also great. I can't recommend a better place to spend your time in Berlin. Truly an amazing experience.

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.

The food was genuine and fresh on the spot. The chicken was…read moremaybe cut a bit too big but it was sooooo juicy and moist. There was salt missing from the dishes and as soon as we added, it was great. The service was good too. Rice cooked to perfection. Maybe all just lacking a bit of flavor. I've eaten better indian food. Go here if you're in the area, don't go especially to eat here.

Had a perfect vegetarian dish today accompanied by an extremely friendly service. Will come back.read more

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.

Let's start with what I enjoyed here:…read more The music was great - a good selection of Indian folk music that creates a pleasurable atmosphere. The food was tasty and well-prepared, with generous portions and enough to take home. The service was friendly and hospitable. Why 2 stars, when I'd otherwise have given 4? The sneaky way of doing business. After I placed my order, I was asked if I'd like to try the naan bread. I said, "sure, why not?" I ordered the #56 Paneer Jhaifrezi as my main entree for 9€ and a linsensuppe (#20) for €2.50. Fair and reasonable prices, no complaints here. When I got the bill, they had slapped on a 3.50€ charge for the bread, without even mentioning that there's an extra charge for it. My fault for not asking as I'm learning, but I've been to many Indian restaurants in the area, and none have charged extra for naan. And if they are going to charge, it's sneaky to charge almost half the price of an entree, and more than a soup - just for bread. If they were transparent about the charge, I would have had absolutely no problem with this. I mentioned to the waiter that I wasn't aware that I'd be charged so much for just naan. He said, "Sorry, that's what we charge." No problem, but I probably won't be back here.

I LOVE this place. Recently discovered it and been a few times already. Phenomenal food, rich…read moreauthentic flavors, fantastic! Friendly server! This will be one of my favorite spot for years to come.

One of the strangest most globalized meals I have ever had…read more Salt and Pepper claims to be an Indian Mexican place. It is by no stretch of the imagination Indian Mexican fusion. There is no attempt to combine Indian food ideas and Mexican food ideas to come up with anything unusual or distinctive. It is a restaurant that serves Indian items (75% of the menu) and Mexican items (20% of the menu). They also have burgers and steaks if you insist. * * * I had Texas-style chips and dip and Tandoori chicken in a cashew sauce. The Tandoori chicken was served with an English salad with salad cream. The salad was NOT a German dish. Salad cream is strictly British. My beverage was mango schnapps. Mango schnapps IS German. So I was having Mexican and Indian and English and German all at the same time. * * * Tangent - Schnapps Schnapps have virtually disappeared from Berlin bars and restaurants - except for a very small number of dedicated German food places. I had come to Berlin hoping to drink all different sorts of schnapps - a dream which simply isn't going to happen. No-German is a Berlin thing. Much of the rest of Germany has German food and German beverages. One food writer hypothesizes Berlin's massive commitment to international food is the result of Berlin being an international city controlled by four foreign powers for over forty years. There was American Berlin and English Berlin and French Berlin and Russian Berlin. Some of this is the generalized globalization that is affecting all of the capital cities of Europe. I have had Francophiles complain that Paris is now the least French city in France. For whatever reason, German food and beverage are now hard to find in Berlin. Note that the scarcity does NOT apply to German beer. Berliners may be international - but they are NOT stupid. That said, The irony of having my one mango schnapps in an Indian restaurant was not lost on me. * * * How was the food? Interesting and savable. Salt and Pepper uses vast amounts of standard industrialized ingredients. German Supermarkets sell mass produced Mexican food items to German customers. Indian supermarkets have vast numbers of bottled sauces. There is a large Indian supermarket one street over from Salt and Pepper that sells much the same food that Indian supermarkets sell in the United States. There are also the wholesalers who provide groceries to the enormous number of Indian restaurants in Berlin. Supermarket sauces made the meal. My tortilla chips for the chips and dip were German Engineered. There were virtually identical circles of masa chips - each of the same circumference and thickness. They looked just like Pringles. They didn't taste like much. They were served with mild salsa straight out of the bottle. I could have bought that salsa at the supermarket near my apartment. There was also bland guacamole - also supermarket, and a sour cream that was tame even by German standards. Entertainingly, the sauces were not served in Mexican style sauce dishes but were served in the microscopic sauce dishes used in Indian restaurants for the accompaniments to pappadams. Strangely, the microscopic servings of dips actually worked. The bowls were so small you couldn't get very much salsa on your chip unless you broke the chip in half. The micro-doses of sauce on half chips surprisingly did the job. The sauces in the pappadam bowls were okay and lasted the whole meal. The tandoori chicken with cashew sauce was a major bore. The kitchen, probably fully aware of its sins, also provided a tamarind sauce, a raita and a green chili sauce. The bottled tamarind sauce and raita were passable for what they were. The green chili sauce was an absolute world beater. The green chili sauce - which could have been pure pulverized green chilies with just enough liquid to make them a sauce - was also major fire coming out of the ears material. It threw all sorts of life into the cashew chicken. It also made the guacamole, the sour cream, the mild salsa, the raita and the tamarind sauce absolute necessities. I went through every molecule of all five sauces and still had half of the green chili sauce left in my bowl. And I went through all of my rice. And I went through a salty lassi. * * * Frankly however, this was all good eating, But, a repeat visit is not in the cards But I had a good time and had an entertaining meal. Should you make Salt and Pepper one of your destination eating locations on your next visit to Berlin? Probably not. But a lot of people do eat here. And if you ended up here because the people you were with insisted this is where they wanted to go You could find something that would be okay. Like maybe a glass of mango schnapps.

I love indian food, but this is just average, which would be fine, but it is spendy too. If it was…read morea little less expensive, I would have given it three stars, which should be its rating. The food is fine, and unremarkable. Cheers, D

It's hard to know what to expect from the street. The restaurant is nice but a little common…read morelooking. They have outdoor seating which is nice however the street is kind of busy and gets loud. The food was great, short of fantastic but very good for the price. When you sit down you are brought an apertif and some thin crackers with three sauces,a very nice start to the meal. I ate a chicken curry that was very well cooked with a tasty sauce. It came with some fragrant rice and a salad that I didn't bother eating. I also tried some fried rice with chicken and beef that was surprising good. Tender meat and really well seasoned. We ordered a side of fried bread that was very delicious. After the meal they brought a shot of mango liquor, another nice surprise. The service was very attentive and the food came out really quickly. I will definitely be back!

I have been to 'Luck' three times. It is the best Indian food near Ostkreuz, where I live. I…read morehave only had take out so I can not comment on the table service, but the staff was helpful when I ordered in the store. Food is good, not spectacular, and the price is good. Seating outside in the summer. I am pretty sure there is a full bar, but not positive. They definitely have beer and wine. I like this place. Cheers, D

I passed by this place a few nights ago and noticed the dishes looked nice and decided to try it…read moretoday. I was pleasantly surprised that I found it again, and that the prices were so reasonable. I ordered the Palak Paneer (pictured above) medium-spicy, 3,90€. I was surprised that it was spicy enough. Normally I ordered it spicy and have to add extra spicy sauce. It was quite nice, not the best but very good. I would be happy to return to this place to try other things. :) This review was written in 2010.

A nice small Indian restaurant with tasty and reasonable food. The environment is nice and the…read morestaff are friendly. I love the sauces and Daal Dhaba the most!

Among the many restaurants surrounding Boxhagener Platz is Sigiriya, a standout offering Sri Lankan…read morefood. Their menu explained the characteristics and ingredients typical of this hard-to-find cuisine and offered an approachable take for those unfamiliar with it. The thing to order from the menu is the "Reistafel," a set menu that came with an appetizer, an array of dishes for the main course, and a dessert. The appetizer was a simple salad of lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes, carrots, and arugula dressed with pumpkin seeds and crushed papadum crackers for crunch. But the main attraction of the Reistafel were the five different items that came as part of the main course, each plated in a separate bowl: white rice, a coconut milk curry with fried eggplant, red lentils, a meat curry of choice (I had the lamb), and Pol Sambole (shredded coconut seasoned with chilies). Every item that came with the Reistafel was delicious and mildly spiced, though I was especially a fan of the red lentils for their creamy texture and the Pol Sambole (coconut sambar) for its earthy flavor. With all the dishes came a condiment made of fried red chilies in oil, which added an amazing aromatic, spicy crunch to every bite! At the end of the meal came a Sri Lankan dessert called Mikiri, a thick, tangy buffalo milk yogurt dressed with a syrup made of jaggery. Overall, the food at Sigiriya was beautifully presented and came with friendly service in an elegant atmosphere. Though the flavors/spices of the dishes seemed to be toned down, the menu here presented a great, approachable introduction to Sri Lankan cuisine!

The food was good and they had a lot of vegan/vegetarian options but it was too little. I'm not a…read morebig girl but now, 1,5hour later I'm really hungry again. So yeah, for like something if you're hungry a couple of hours before dinner this would be perfect but as a dinner, both of us thought it was too little...