I had really high hopes for this place after hearing some really good reviews from my South Indian friends. I belong from a Malayali family myself and was craving malayali food for a while. So finally decided to visit this place with my parents.
Location and Ambience - Not bad..we were the only guests in the restaurant. This was in a way good for us as we got the seat right by the open window.
Food - We ordered Chilly eggplant, Malabari Chicken, Meen polichathu and Mixed veg curry. Out of these four only Malabari chicken was worth the money. Meen polichathu was overpriced and quite hard. (We had heard that this was one of their specials and a definitely go-for item so we ordered it right away althought it was priced $20 and the size of the fish was quite small and it didn't taste anywhere close to what you would usually get in Kerala). Chilly eggplant had lots and lots of oil and the mixed veg curry was okay.
For breads, we had ordered Malabari roti (again they were quite small in size and not as half as good as what you usually get in Kerala). We ordered wheat chapathi and Garlic, butter and plain Naan bread. Most of the Naan bread we got was way too hard and felt like it was overcooked (burnt to be precise) which we reported and they replaced with another set of Naan which was slightly better than the first one but had the same issue. Moreover the Naan didn't freel fresh and felt like they had just heated up the Frozen chapatis/Naan and served it to us.
Service - Out server was really nice and pleasant in terms of interaction. However, we had to wait close to one hour to get our food that we had ordered.
All in all not a pleasant experience. Will never visit again.