Madras Restaurant

Mark (27 February 2009)

Absolutely superb and I highly recommend this place. Spice of Life on Lee High Road is great for traditional Indian dishes - really, is a top grade curry house - but the Madras is amazing for a different flavour and blend of authentic south Indian and Sri Lankan dishes. Spoilt for choice on the menu too, take your pick from a load of options with names you've never heard of, yet taste great. Best sign is always when the home nationalities frequent the place as that mirrors the food quality. Madras is packed with home nationalities.

Biggestdosafan (5 November 2007)

Being Indian, we are very fond of South Indian food, especially dosa. When we reached Madras after a tiring walk from Balckheath Fireworks, we were very disappointed with food, service and price. To be honest, it did look like a restaurant run by some cowboys. I’m sorry for all those who eat there, but it is not South Indian food at all. It’s all made up food which is too oily, over priced and moreover, the staff is ignorant. For example, I ordered idli, the guy who was serving us came up with two idlis and one vada, instead of all three idlis, and said they were short of one idli, hence the vada. No apology, no regret. I just walked away. All orders were placed on wrong tables and we ended up getting too many dishes, which we hadn't ordered. And on top of everything no apologies to us. I asked him for a bottle of beer and he gave me an already opened flat beer bottle, which tasted horrible and I had to leave it on table. I called upon the staff and he was no where ready to listen as if he didn't understand English. After everything we got our bill, which was rounded off to £50 for some suspicious reason, and upon calculations I found it to be £45.80. I would never ever recommend anyone to go there. Also the toilet and wash basin were as dirty as Lewisham station toilets.

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