I cannot believe a restaturant recommended by the Times Food Guide has sunk so low. The service was terrible(on a Wednesday night). Extremely slow service, no response, had to call stewards multiple times to get at least some food on the table. And the food! Here’s what we had:
Tom Yum Soup - standard right? Wrong - hot as hell. Full of finely chopped green and red chillies, impossible to remove. We consumed more water than soup.
Irish coffee - cold, served in the wrong glass. Steward insists its supposed to be cold. We ask for 4 more, hot coffee, and they come to the table luke warm. Very less coffee - mostly Bailey’s and whipped cream. Bartender - please check up your recipes!
Lotus stem starter - HOT. tasty, but HOT
Spring rolls - Oily and greasy. Had to be wiped with napkins
. various other starters which were passable.
Entree - hakka noodles - served cold, bland. No amount of sauces could help this dish.
Pad Thai - if you cannot get this standard dish right, stop calling yourselves a Thai restaurant! This one was SOUR! Steward informed us that this is the correct way - its tossed in imli sauce! Sent it back.
Fruit salad with ice cream - looked tempting, served in a green coconut shell, with ice cream on top. Nice! After eating the ice cream, discovered that the only fruits in the salad were apples! Yes - a fruit salad of only green and red apples. nothing else. I have never seen a fruit salad with only 1 type of fruit, not even at a thela / tapri.
After a lot of complaints from our 12 member group, the head steward(?) apologized profusely, and brough a cake to our table, on the house(we were there to celebrate sister’s b’day.).
The real cherry on the cake was when I discovered that Valet parking attendants had helped themselves to diesel from my Vento. and drained almost half the tank. When I started it to leave, the fill fuel light came on and it showed only 55 kms to empty. This was the absolute last straw, and Mallaka Spice is now blacklisted by my and family and all my friends as well. We will take our business elsewhere.