Mannu's Kitchen Indian Cuisine Maitland 539 High Street, Maitland, New South Wales 2320

"Have been here several times (about once a year when visiting Maitland). Easy to get a table. Good menu with plenty of options. I had a very tasty lamb madras, nice an peppery. Well worth a visit."

"Hands down the best butter chicken I’ve had in Australia. So flavourful, not too sweet, an awesome nuttiness to the sauce and it just hits the spot. The onion bhaji are incredible, crunchy, salty and so moreish. The naan is delicious. Do yourself a favour and get dinner from here-you won’t regret it. I get a Mannu’s craving at least once a week. Also had plenty of options suitable for my Coeliac mum."

"We had dinner in the restaurant last night (Tuesday), we were the only ones dining and our experience was unfortunately extremely disappointing. NEGATIVES - The customer service was appalling!! We were greeted on arrival with a lack of professionalism, lacking of friendly, warmth and welcoming mannerisms. I understand that we were the only ones dining, we don’t expect to be waited hand and foot, however it was disappointing. - They need to really improve there hygiene practices and standards, our table had cutlery that hadn’t been washed properly let alone polished, the water glasses on the table had greasy fingerprints all over them and scaling from not being washed properly and again, not polished. As I looked around, the table next to us had unclean and unpolished cutlery. Attention to details is evidently not on the top of priorities. You don’t need anything fancy to polish cutlery once it’s been washed, boiling hot water in a clean bucket with a dash of vinegar, rub with clean cloth works a charm! Polishing glassware immediately after going through the wash will achieve that sparkling finish. - They clearly do not have a process in place to ensure meals come out together, everything came in dribs and drabs, we had to remind the waitress for the raita when everything was almost finished. - The lighting felt a little too dim, a little brighter so you can see the food your eating, felt like we were eating under candlelight. - Closing the door on the kitchen would be a bonus, no one wants to hear what is going on in the kitchen. - It was a little more on the expensive side compared to other Indian restaurants. $90+ for 3 x curries, large rice, 4 x garlic naan, raita, mango lassi and can coke. Better off travelling into Newcastle for a better experience and a little better on the pocket and bigger servings. POSITIVES - the food was full of flavour OVERALL We wouldn’t dine in again, unless they were to improve their hygiene practices and standards and of course their customer service standards. Probably wouldn’t be enticed enough for takeaway option either."

"I am a Menulog delivery driver and frequent this restaurant often. Each time I have seen cockroaches running along the main food ordering table, running all over the floors. The last time I was there I saw AT LEAST 10 cockroaches on the floor in the main dining area in under 10 minutes. A mixture of german cockroaches and normal cockroaches. One crawled onto my shoe while I was waiting for food. If the main dining area is like that, you can only imagine what the food prep area is like. I’m not usually horrified by things like this, but the amount of cockroaches in this establishment is disgusting. Such a shame considering I loved their Indian dishes before I found this out. Stay away. You’ve been warned."