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Rated: Excellent
based on 9 reviews
Cafe Madras
38 - II, Circle House, King's Circle, Matunga, Mumbai
24014419
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first reviewed by shahsa
- User Reviews (9)
Dec 25, 2008
Best South Indian food on planet earth
Simply awesome and totally delicious south indian food......
very friendly waiter's staff and the owners of this place are also simply great by heart.......
the service here is excellent
rates are also very reasonable
quality of the food has always been maintained since last many decades
very hygienic and healthy food is one of the biggest plus point.......
very tempting and irresistible.........
one can never come up with a single negative point about this place...........
in short i can rate it 10 on 10
Dec 23, 2008
One of the best place 4 south indian cuisine!
I'm born and brought up in b'lore.. thgh m a marwari by caste but i have a crave 4 south indian dishes especially bisibelebath, puliyogare etc.. after cmng to mum a l'l more than 2 yrs ago.. till date i havent found ne restaurant which offers such soft idli's like d one de serve here. classy & tasty sambar n chutney.. they have lot to offer on their menu card... n there's no harm in trying out each of the dishes mentioned there.. some of the names are difficult to recall.. sry 4 dat... i nvr imagined having set dosa in mumbai... but they were really good in it... to top it all.. u must have d filter coffee.. which (if u have lived in south india) took me back to my good old days in b'lore.. its a budget hotel with a complete value for money.. dinner for two starting wid idli's, two rounds of dosas (4 dosas in total), filter coffee (for each) wud come arnd for Rs.120-150 depending on the type of dosas u take.. weekends there is lot of rush & overcrowding and by 10.00 pm most of their dishes start getting reduced / are over. so try making it earlier on weekends.. n yeah, u might have to wait 4 quite sometime.. but its worth d wait!! overall d exp was really nice.. had been on weekdays too... no diff in food & service.. every time it has been good (to me).
Dec 22, 2008
Kasam Rasam keee...
i am ready to swear on the rasam they serve at this place....this place is awesome..the rasam wada especially is a must try...the dosas especially the mysore sada or mysore masala is too good...ask for a malgapudi chatni with whatever you order..it is the best add on....
this is a 5 star place!!
Oct 03, 2008
Fantastic
I have been visiting this place for long but am not yet tired. The things I like are:
1. Very Hospitable Staff; almost eager to please
2. The food - It has been consistently good for so many years. I never had a poor experience here - from Rasam to Idli/Wada/Dosa to desserts and Coffee, everything is top class
3. Price - I dont know how they still manage to sell stuff so cheap. A Wada/Idli for 11/- and Dosa for under 20/-...this is a steal.
4. The repeat of Sambhar/Chutney is non-stop - they dont cringe like some other pricey restaurants.
5. Nice location
What they can improve upon:
1. Parking woes
2. Standard of Crockery, Cutlery
3. Seating comfort
All in all, this is the best south indian restaurant I have eaten in Mumbai. There are some other unknown but good ones in Matunga and some well known but ordinary ones all over the town but this place remains the best!!
Keep it up.
Jun 24, 2008
Best of South in Central Mumbai
Café Madras is a tricky destination if you don’t know your way around Kings Circle, Sion. Everytime we end up doing atleast 2 chakkars before we zero in on its location. This time around, I found a landmark – an eatery which has its name on a bright blue neon board with Reliance Communication written on it is where one takes the left.
Waiting before you get a table seems to be an accepted norm here. The young man at the door smiles sweetly & confirms that we should be seated in the next twenty minutes, which you so want to believe. Breakfast is easier to catch I guess, with less of a wait, depending on when you arrive.
Etched on the stone walls at the entrance are the words, Café Madras, open since 1940. It also says the establishment is shut on Mondays.
Fifty minutes later, out of which about forty eight were spent with my sister & I staring at the young man, came our table. Thoughts on ambience etc. etc. should all be discarded before you enter. The staff is extremely friendly, including the gentleman at the door. I liked the fact that they recommend stuff, rather than routinely take one’s order down.
Move over all you Udipi-style restaurants. The food is out of the world, and since I was brought up in Chennai, you can definitely take my word for it. This is probably the only place in Mumbai which serves authentic mulagapodi (commonly referred to as gun powder by most North Indians). We had a Raagi Rava Dosa, which makes it a tad healthier than the regular version made out of maida. The servings are not big, but enough to fill a normal appetite as most of the items are made with ghee.
We skipped desert, but ended the meal with lovely filter coffee, excessively sweet, but heavenly. Aaah!
The bill for four of us was Rs. 255/- and we had:
• 1 plate upma
• 1 plate rasam vada
• 3 rava dosas (one of them ragi)
• 2 ghee dosas
• 1 ginger lemon cooler & soft drink
• 2 filter coffees.
Only drawbacks:
• You guessed it, the waaaaait…
• The parking, our vehicle was at the other end of the world. If in a group, its best that atleast one gets off to get their name on the list, while the rest look for parking.
Overall the experience, as a true Chennai’ite would say, voray soopera!