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This restaurant and Putt Putt Family Fun Centre can be both really attractive for tourists. Indian taste makers is famous for offering Indian cuisine. Food delivery is a big plus of this place. Cooks at this spot do their best to provide visitors with tasty naan, butter chicken and lamb rogan josh.
The ambiance of this place is homey. As for the Google rating, this restaurant got 4.8.
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Indian, Vegetarian options
ClosedOpens at 5PM
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Price range per person A$15 - A$38
Address
40 Langtree Ave, Mildura, Victoria, Australia
Features
Outdoor seating
Сredit cards accepted
Delivery
Takeaway
Booking
Wheelchair accessible
Opening hours
| SundaySun | 12PM-3PM 5PM-10PM |
| MondayMon | 5PM-10:30PM |
| TuesdayTue | 5PM-10:30PM |
| WednesdayWed | 5PM-10:30PM |
| ThursdayThu | 5PM-10:30PM |
| FridayFri | 5PM-11PM |
| SaturdaySat | 12PM-3PM 5PM-10:30PM |
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Beware solo diners - avoid! See their response, to bully & mock solo diners.
The staff pointed out my “rudeness” when I entered? I was excited by the high ratings, smiled, happy, looking forward to a gourmet meal. Waitress seemed confused as to if I’m dining in or not, I clarified that I would like to “order in”, I asked for the window table. She immediately asked for my order, I realised my asking if I could “order in” was confusing, & I clarified that I still needed to read the menu. All smiling & enthusiastic. That’s all “rude”?
They are chefs & have never heard of Himalayan salt or Sea salt. When she said “the gulab jamun comes in 2 pieces” repeatedly, and I said, “ok, don’t worry about dessert”, she still decided to serve one. It was completely inedible. They’ve been caught out serving substandard food, and are attacking and shaming a diner for being solo!
They seem incapable of taking constructive criticism.
I’m Indian and have a very developed palate for Indian vegetarian food.
I ordered papar and was asked if I wanted sauces with that - at double the cost. Stylish places give a touch of complimentary sauce. The papar were basic with no cumin seeds and were microwaved.
Then I placed my order. The menu is heavy on paneer all different ways and a couple of mixed vegetables and legumes - no eggplant, bhindi, mushrooms, pumpkin, or other vegetarian dishes. When I ordered, I was relentlessly upsold - Naan? Raita? Salad? Drinks?
I got the malai kofta (a paneer based dish) and was told its gravy was based on cashews and not cream - but when it came out, it was clearly a milky dish, minimal cashew flavour or texture. The kofta was small, not plump, not very nutty and no discernible fruit - it was paneer and potatoes with spices - not great, not terrible, just average. The sauce was under seasoned. The salt that came out was cheap supermarket quality- and the shaker was empty, needing to ask for a refill. Better to make your salt Himalayan or sea salt! The sauce was pleasant in flavour but not delicious - not complex or heavenly, with an overly smooth texture rather than a nicely granular nutty gravy, and needed more herbs (not too much more, just enough to have a decent hit, but not overpowering). Malai kofta is an absolute gourmet dish that you spoil yourself with. Not this one.
The service, as well as upselling, was not overly hospitable. I misspoke and asked for a small rice and told that it’s a medium size and that’s all that’s available - which is fine, just no need to make the obvious point that you’ll pay for a medium, not a small. It’s plain - no garnish to make it restaurant style.
I asked for a single gulab jamun because like most Indians I’m prediabetic - and got insistence that I had to order two and take the second one home. I said don’t worry, no dessert - and then she obliged with a single gulab jamun. (I know that restaurants do oblige). It came out and was awful, a mix of cold spots and luke warm spots, chalky and tasteless - and the tiny bit of syrup was just like cheap sugar water. Felt very much like it was from a can. The waitress insisted it came from Melbourne and not from a can - but if it came from Melbourne, it was surely mass produced, and you could tell. After one small bite, I returned it, but they still charged me three dollars for it. When I questioned it, I got the usual backchat, as you do here, but then she tried to reach into the till to give it back to me, but I had lost interest and patience by then.
This place lacks style and panache. Everything was on the plainest white plates, cheap salt and pepper basic $2 shop shakers, cheap water bottle and glasses, thin Indian elevator muzak in the background.
I’m not sure why this place rates.