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Restoran Karaikudi

Restaurant Indian restaurant

👍👍 Delicious authentic Indian cuisine, as recommended by a friend. Queue were quite long for a sunday night dinner. Ordered the briyani rice with some dishes, Fish curry, mutton masala & Butter chicken. The fish is cook to perfection. Pair well with the fish curry Mutton masala is the best among al... People often mention briyani, Indian, chicken, good, service, rice, restaurant, nice, quality, dishes,


Address

20, Lebuh Pasar, George Town, 10200 George Town, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia

Contact

+60 4-263 1345

Rating on Google Maps

4.00 (1.1K reviews)

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Working Hours

  • Tuesday: 11 am to 11 pm
  • Wednesday: 11 am to 11 pm
  • Thursday: 11 am to 11 pm
  • Friday: 11 am to 11 pm
  • Saturday: 11 am to 11 pm
  • Sunday: 11 am to 11 pm
  • Monday: 11 am to 11 pm

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  • 5/5 adrian_97s 1 year ago on Google
    Delicious authentic Indian cuisine, as recommended by a friend. Queue were quite long for a sunday night dinner. Ordered the briyani rice with some dishes, Fish curry, mutton masala & Butter chicken. The fish is cook to perfection. Pair well with the fish curry Mutton masala is the best among all, tender mutton with flavourful quah.
    6 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Katrishaa K. 2 years ago on Google
    My favourite Briyani spot in Penang island , more of the high end side of Indian restaurant to dine in . Well maintained , decent and air conditioned place . Really like the ambience in there - classy ✨ My favourite is their Mutton Briyani which comes with curry and raita . It costs RM20 which I feel it’s really worth it 👍🏻 Comes with big chunks of lamb meat which is soft and juicy and rice is flavourful . Yumzzz all the way 😋 I paired the meal with masala tea , which is full of herbs and nice . I decided to try their chettinaad filter coffee which is RM3 , comes in a small tumblr but it’s really good . ✅ Basically from food to service everything is top notch . 💯 Place is suitable for family dinings and they take reservations and online orders too . Definitely recommended if you have a moderate budget 💰
    5 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 Ben G. 2 years ago on Google
    An Honest Critique here, Went here based on all the reviews as my parents wanted authentic indian coffee when we were in town. The drinks were fine and average, ambiance was decent with a cozy vibe. Unfortunately, it was a turnoff when the service for just drinks was almost 40 mins while the restaurant wasn’t packed. Waiter wasn’t very friendly or even warm at all in-fact was taking the order as if he was forced to take our order. Seems like they treat foreigners or their regulars better THAN new customers coming in from out of town better. (Like in our case) *Word of advice* to the owners, Please train your staff to be pleasant with your customers. Do not pick favourites, or you might never know when a potential loyal customer might walk in. Furthermore, no one is having a free meal, everyone expect to leave with a full stomach and good words to spread around. (Too bad for me I guess). To future customers, Lower your expectations if you are going here, or look around you might just find somewhere nicer. After all, it is the HUB of good food. 😉👍🏽 Happy hunting 💪🏽😊
    5 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Khye Shen S. 1 year ago on Google
    Located in the heart of Georgetown, this restaurant provides one of the best north Indian food in Penang. I ordered palak paneer, naan and a few dosai. Palak paneer is nice and creamy, naan is okay... Not as fluffy as I expected. Normal dosai is nice, but the rava dosai is too oily. Mango lassi is rich and nice. Price is reasonable. Restaurant ventilation is not so good. I saw a lot of people order the sizzling brownies. That burnt smell quickly fill up the room which is quite unpleasant. Overall food is good, parking near the restaurant is almost impossible, service is rather quick. I will revisit.
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 ming l. 2 years ago on Google
    First time visiting. Located in Little India area so naturally its all down to good luck to get a parking spot here. Food is amazing with reasonable price. Portion is also just nice. Attentive waiter who respond quick to our request. Would love to come back again.
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 johnny B. 3 years ago on Google
    This is by far my favorite place to eat in all of Penang. They know us when we walk in, the first time I ever had Indian food was here and tried many many Indian food places but this is my favorite and will Come here every single time I am ever in Penang. Sorry I do not have any photos of the food we get but this place is amazing, vegetable Beryani, Masala dosi. Plain palak. Mmmm. This place is the best! Give it a try. I do not eat meat so it is hard to find somewhere that caters to me being so picky. This place is the place to eat! Guinness beers too! Good prices on everything and the quality is amazing. Thank you and we will come back soon.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 yves b. 1 year ago on Google
    worst meal i have had in george town. veggie lunch was barely lukewarm, all vegetables and dahl watery and tasteless, nan from the day before, sandy rice. service indifferent and that is being kind. i will not return. shockingly mediocre....
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 Eunice H. 1 year ago on Google
    This shop is racist. They serve food to the customers of their own race first. The lady came 20 mins after me and had gotten her drinks and food before me. Service is poor, such a disappointment.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Chi chi M. 1 year ago on Google
    Good food if you are craving for South Indian Meal. It's as authentic as it gets! We ordered Thali set. Every single dish was simply remarkable!
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 3/5 Simon C. 2 years ago on Google
    Crispy dhosa, masala filling was delicious. Sauces slightly too hot. Fish curry had a tasty sauce although the fish itself was over cooked. Lemon tea was lovely. Restaurant is an old dark building, wood paneling on the walls with heavy wooden doors and elephant design door handles.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Mas H. 10 months ago on Google
    A great place with delicious Indian dishes, good location, helpful and polite staffs, and lively atmosphere.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Somsubhra D. 8 months ago on Google
    A lovely restaurant located in Little India in Market Street in Penang. There are many shopping outlets where there are many customers. These customers would love to eat and have a drink in this place. Has lots of variety of North Indian and South Indian dishes. Very prompt service and food come pretty fast. The ambience is nice, with the surroundings being clean. The payment can be done using QR mode, cash, or card.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Amelia Ahmad J. 8 months ago on Google
    The food here is perfect 😍 ordered the chicken nasi biryani eat with raita is the absolute perfection. Their mango lassi is one of the best I've ever tasted. Price is affordable and big portion. There's a multi storey carpark very nearby to the restaurant within walking distance
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 2/5 Goh W. 1 year ago on Google
    This used to be one of the nicest Indian Food restaurants but the service and food quality has dropped tremendously, especially for the price ones paying. We ordered fish tikka but the fish wasn't fresh. The owner offered to take that away from the bill though - thx!

  • 5/5 Kate J. 11 months ago on Google
    Such a great place! Waiter was super helpful and food was delicious! We ordered the non vegetarian platter and was not disappointed. Would highly recommend:)

  • 4/5 Maria P. 11 months ago on Google
    Tandoori chicken biryani. Really big portion and came with two sauces. Not much chicken on the bone but had a great flavour. Staff were miserable but the food was nice.

  • 5/5 D'loovi's P. 4 months ago on Google
    Delicious Chettinad style cooking with generous portions. It's very tasty. Just tell them you know Kelvin, the long-haired bar-owner when you go there!

  • 5/5 Sandra C. 1 year ago on Google
    Regular at this outlet. The wait can be long but the food will be worth it . Their coffee n cow milk tea is the bomb. Also recommended their briyani n non vegetarian platters

  • 5/5 Kaveenesh S. 1 year ago on Google
    A good place for warm and pleasant environment. Good choices of food. Variety of choices, absolutely delightful in taste. Price has increased recently but the quality stays the same.

  • 4/5 iena abu b. 9 months ago on Google
    Nice environment. Taste of food ok. But the service for the dishes to be cooked and serve is very slow. Maybe should try the fast dishes like dosa next time for the taste. The lunch time is till 4 pm . We reach there at 3.40pm and all the ready meals are finished it seems and we had to order ala carte which all the table are doing so. Almost full house but all the table had to wait for ala carte dishes which take for ours almost 45 minutes to be ready

  • 5/5 Lay San P. 1 year ago on Google
    Delicious! Helpful staff. Ordered mutton briyani, chicken briyani, butter chicken masala, cauliflower & peas, milk tea and masala tea. All good.

  • 5/5 Shamir S. 6 months ago on Google
    Full a/c, Nice to dine in during hot season. Crowd place, we have to wait 5mins for the seat but worth it.

  • 2/5 vignes k. 1 year ago on Google
    1.Briyani served just heat and only add prawn or chicken or mutton with same rice. 2. Cheese Nan served without any chutney or gravy not even sambar also. 3. Not as expected

  • 1/5 HEMAHWATHI K. 1 year ago on Google
    We were try most of the briyani here but it was not as we expected. Some more, we was waited for an hour just for the briyani. Please make your service as fast as you can to deliver the food. Thank you

  • 1/5 Suvarnan S. 1 year ago on Google
    Below everage, the chicken briyani was tasteless,waiters service was terrible. Sambar was very watery,Gobi Manchurian was like curry and not fried properly. For God sake can you plz serve us for what we are paying?pricy but no quality at all. If foods are tasty and good quality ppl don't mind to pay extra but your foods are pricy and no quality and tasty.....

  • 1/5 giri p. 1 year ago on Google
    went there today (sunday 15/8/2022)and the worker told us only briyani available and we ordered briyani.few mins later the waiter bring plain rice to my next table.after that we ask them for plain water and they bring mineral water bottle(which is not free) and we told them that we only want one cup of water and they told us that no water inside the kitchen .few mins later we wanted to order drinks and we called the muslim girl who’s there and she ignored us .We tried to call others and no one serve us and we had to take ourself all the drinks WORST SERVICE!!!!!!

  • 5/5 Henry S. 3 years ago on Google
    Tasty food, one of family favourite resto, nice ambience and friendly helpful staffs. Delicious Mutton rogan josh, chicken Briyani n butter chicken; scrumptious Tandoori chicken and Paneer Tikka, and love the most of the dishes. Dine in or delivery, it maintains the food quality. Very recommended!

  • 3/5 Ed L. 1 year ago on Google
    Found the food delicious. Without doubt one of the best N Indian I have had for a long time any where. Diners will not be disappointed with the menu, the food quality and quantity. Our bill came out less than we expected. It is a higher end family friendly dining experience. On the down side we had to wait a long time to get our order taken resulting in later comers being served dinner before us.

  • 4/5 renuka d. 1 year ago on Google
    Tried the paneer biryani and chole bhature. Worth trying. Biryani was enough for 2 persons. Bhature was good as well.

  • 2/5 ssg 1 year ago on Google
    Food and service is as average as water and sand. Nothing great, nothing stands out.

  • 5/5 Muhammad I. 2 years ago on Google
    Great food, faster service! Pro tip: queue if you want to take-away and sit if you want to dine-in.

  • 4/5 Nicolas R. 5 years ago on Google
    Wonderful Indian food. Quick service and affordable. Strongly recommend

  • 4/5 Vasantakumaren Seri R. 2 years ago on Google
    Good selection of indian food...muttom briyani tasted average...but their bru coffea was awesome...

  • 4/5 AD 5 years ago on Google
    Really delicious. Menu of the day-- spicy chicken. Their briyani also better in taste, unfortunately there is no chicken inside the briyani rice. It's just a briyani rice. Nice environment. You can dine in with your kids as well. Good atmosphere 👍

  • 5/5 Sam “Green Eggs & Ham” S. 5 years ago on Google
    Superb briyani claypot rice in a semi-chill restaurant right in the heart of George Town. Pricing is quite affordable and service is speedy and mighty tasty! Place is halal and vegetarian friendly.

  • 3/5 Tameem Hussain S. 5 years ago on Google
    Decent place for family dining. Taste was good for the price.

  • 5/5 Mike S. 3 years ago on Google
    Nice food from north Ahmad sorry of India

  • 5/5 Vincent L. 3 years ago on Google
    Great Indian food. A must to visit.

  • 4/5 Kavi E. 3 years ago on Google
    The food was amazing and love the ambience of the restaurant and it was air conditioned. Reasonable price with good amount of portion. Try their briyani and paneer butter masala. Beside you may try their special menu of the day.


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Amenities


  • Parking
    • ✓️ Difficult to find a space
  • Payments
    • ✓️ Debit cards
    • ✓️ Credit cards
    • ✓️ NFC mobile payments
  • Offerings
    • ✓️ Beer
    • ✓️ Coffee
    • ✓️ Alcohol
    • ✓️ Small plates
  • Accessibility
    • ✗ Wheelchair-accessible car park
  • Dining options
    • ✓️ Lunch
    • ✓️ Brunch
    • ✓️ Dinner
    • ✓️ Dessert
    • ✓️ Catering
  • Service options
    • ✓️ Dine-in
    • ✓️ Delivery
    • ✓️ Takeaway

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