Madras Restaurant

By far the best Indian restaurant in the Lewisham/Blackheath/Greenwich area. Excellent curries, biryanis, dosas and vegetable dishes and there is also a very welcome attention to detail. I.e. The rice is beautifully cooked and the popodoms fresh and crispy. Presentation is very good and the service friendly.

The location (on Lewisham High St) might put people off and the facade is perhaps uninviting, but this restaurant is a real gem and puts the lazy and over-priced Blackheath Indian restaurants to shame.
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Pip
Overall rating
Food 10 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 10
Tuesday, June 24, 2008

This is a brilliant restaurant that has never let me down. I usually go with someone from Southern India who says their food is authentic. I love the Kothu Roti , Dosas, Biryani and Samosas.

They are very friendly, cook fresh and are very welcoming.

Best Restaurant in Lewisham.
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Rev Sean
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Food 10 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 10
Thursday, December 13, 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 disspointed with food, service and price. To be honesh it did look like a restaurent run by some cowboys. I am sorry for all those who eat, but this is not an South Indian food at all. Its all made up food which is too oily, over priced and ignorant staff. For example, I ordered a started of Idli, the guy who was serving us came up with 2 Idlis and 1 vada(instead of all 3 idlies), and said they are one short of idli, hence this vada. No apology, no regret. just walked away. All orders were placed on wrong tables, we ended up getting too many dishes which we didn't ordered. And on top of everything no apologies to customer. I asked him for a bottle of beer and he gave me a already opened flat beer, which taste horrible and I have to leave this on table. I called upon the staff and he was no where ready to listen as if he doesn't understand English. After everything we got our bill which was rounded off to £50 for some suspicious reason, and upon calcluations I founf it to be £45.80. I will never recommend anyone to go there ever.
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BiggestDosaFan
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Food 0 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 2 | Value for money 0
Monday, November 05, 2007

My husband and I are regulars at this place, both for eat-in and delivery. The service is friendly. The menu has both authentic south indian dishes and 'crowd-pleasers'. We always go for the wonderful dosas when eating in, they are huge and crispy. The idli are also good. The accompanying dal and chutneys are amazing. The chicken 65 is great, but really hot and spicy. The biriyanis are weird, not authentic at all but tasty enough for us to order it quite a lot; they should call it something else, it's definitely not biriyani.

We adore this little place. Give it a try if you are in the area.
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Olie Chowdhury
Overall rating
Food 8 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 7 | Value for money 9
Tuesday, June 20, 2006

great little restaurant that deserves more recognition. House specialities are great especially the WONDERFUL DOSAIS! Vegetarian dishes also very good. I haven't tried the meat dishes except the chicken biriani which was dreadful. Amazingly low prices.

The service is very wobbly but charming and what they lack in speed or finesse they make up in attentiveness and entertainment (in a slightly basil fawlty way). The decor could be improved but all in all it is a real jewel and I go back time and time again (as do many Indian locals who I have spoken to there.)
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Caroline Vidal
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Food 9 | Service 5 | Atmosphere 4 | Value for money 9
Saturday, May 27, 2006