Maya Masala Restaurant

Me and the Boy were in town on Friday night and decided to treat ourselves to Maya. Let me start by saying I've been to this restaurant before and had wonderful service, great food and rolled away from the experience with a full tummy and happy memories. Unfortunately this visit did not live up to our expectations.

Firstly the restaurant was not busy, but we were seated at the worst table in the house, It rocked whenever you put your glass down and was next to the Toilets with a cold draft from the street door whenever anyone came or went. I'm not the most assertive of people so we didn't ask to change tables. We did ask for napkins to put under the table to stop it rocking and spilling our drinks but they never appeared.

Secondly the staff have always been relaxed and created a lovely environment to settle in with a bottle of wine. Not tonight, our waiter was pushy and insistent. I felt like I was in a fast food joint and they were trying to get us out the door. Whilst we were browsing the wine list and discussing the menu, the waiter asked us 4 times if we were ready to order and If we wold like poppadoms to start, REALLY pushing the poppadoms. (we probably would have had poppadoms if he hadn't been so insistent). we were trying to chat about the menu, They had dishes that my southern Indian work colleagues used to tell me about and The boy has traveled through India but the Waiter kept interrupting whenever we mentioned a dish and asked if we wanted it for starter.

Our wine for the evening was a Skillogalee Take Two Shiraz Cabernet, Quite a nice drop.

We decided on 2 different thalis then we would share, a non vegetarian thali and a Punjabi thali, The waiter then tried to up sell us to both getting the Punjabi thali as it turned out the non-vegetarian thali was just the Punjabi thali without the chicken tandoori. SO a quick change of plan and I went for the seafood thali.


The Punjabi Thali had; Tandoori Chicken, Riata (a bit too sour for me, I didn't like it), Dal (Not as nice as I remember the first time we were here, Quite bland and watery), Mild Paneer curry. Goat curry (The tastiest dish we had), Butter Chicken served with Rice, naan pickle and a poppadom a sweet pudding dish with a creamy rice and nuts. $19.50


The Seafood Thali had the same Riatta, Dhal and pudding, also fried fish (a little chewy), a fish curry and a prawn curry, The prawn curry contained 1 prawn! Disapointing. $19.50

I'm hoping we just hit it on a bad night and it has not come under new management or anything?


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Maya Masala Restaurant
10 Market Street (just off Gouger St)
Adelaide
08 8231 1177