Dosa Cafe

Couldn’t get the order right, small portions, very expensive. We ordered six items for takeaway. They left one main out. Was it intentional? Maybe. It’d be an easy $20 for nothing. When we came back and told them one item was missing, they wasted another 20 mins of our time making it. No complementary item for wasting our time. Just gave and ‘off you go.’ Check the photo for the size of takeaway portions. The curries are about $20 each. Ridiculous. Honestly, the food was well made but same standard as 90% of Indian restaurants I’ve been to. The goat curry was basically all bones. I would honestly estimate 50g-100g meat. For $20. The place was empty, and we waited there a long time. That’s always a bad sign. To the owners: happy customers come back, angry ones don’t. We gave it a shot and are not coming back.

I decided to give Dosa Cafe a try today in my search for delicious Biryani. As a die-hard Biryani fan, seeing Goat Biryani on the menu always delights me. Having said that, I've had a variety of Biryanis from various parts of India and have a good sense of how they taste. My thoughts of the Biryani at the Dosa cafe. - The first impression was that the biryani was excessively wet and that it lacked flavor. The mutton was cooked well, however it felt like boiled meat added in chilly rice. The rice was overcooked and extremely sticky. Overall the Biryani had no taste or flavors. I wouldn't call it biryani in first place. I was quite disappointed with what appeared to be a nice place. If my order had been termed "Mutton rice" instead of "Goat dum biryani," I would have given a better review.

One of the best Indian restaurants around Hawthorn. Have visited them for more than 10 times. Slightly on the spicier side, the flavour are authentic esp. the dosa chutneys and sambhar. Their Indo Chinese is probably top notch amongst Indian restaurants around Melbourne. Parking can be a challenge. Chef Praveen deserves the full credit for this review.