Saravanaa Bhavan

Fantastic, authentic Indian food that is always perfectly cooked. Staff helpful and happy to advise as to what would be best suited to your tastes (and they don’t just advise you to go for the most expensive :)) just don’t go here if you’re expecting meat!
It’s very reasonably priced. My advice: order the mango milkshake. And avoid the thali and north indian meal. Neither are anywhere as good as everything else on the menu and are considerably less good value for money.

This is a regular haunt for us. The food is cheap yet delicious and the service is fast and efficient. it’s authentic South Indian food for a great price. The place is always packed and there are usually queues out the door. the takeaway is just as good and the staff are really friendly.
I really couldnt recommend them enough!

If you love or want to try south indian food this is the place to go. A one stop shop for Idlis, Dosa and Vadai.
I seem to favour and favourite the idli vadai sambar this is one things that i have most often or not have.
Have i been here — a good couple of times. Value for Money — Oh yea.

I really loved this place until recently. I had an unfortunate incident after which I stopped going there. I took some of my good friends for a lunch at this place. We were about 15. Everyone enjoyed the food. Half of them weren’t even Indians. They ate as much as they could, tried several dishes and we all left the place happily. But unfortunately the after effects were bad. 6 of my friends suffered a serious case of food poisoning. No one knows what was the cause, but 6 of my friends who had food from there had vomit, stomach ache, diarrhea and nausea. They had a hard time recovering for two days.
I have reported this incident to them. And they were very kind and understanding and inquired more about what we had on that day and what allergies my friends could have had.
And I have decided not to go there again or take my friends there ever. I will miss my South Indian filter coffee, but I’d rather die myself than get my friends killed.

I had been searching for the same delicious, authentic south indian food that I get in California and was failed miserably in central London so far, and found that the same exact restaurant I used to frequent in Sunnyvale is in London too!
We ordered ghee idli and sambar vada to start with and a buttermilk drink – cool & refreshing!
We ordered the set dosa and rava masala dosa and yummmy!!! they came with three sauces– i loved the red one and the sambhar soup was warm and well spiced.
We finished off the meal with two coffees, and can you imagine that the entire thing costed us £15??? Crazy — I am in LOVE with this place and cant wait to go back again :)

It’s ridiculous how inexpensive this place is.
You wont get 5* service, but you will get a huge meal, and fast fast fast service.
I normally end up here when there is a large family outing (normally 10+ ppl!) and the bill usually comes to about £5 each!
No, that is not a misprint!
The food is good and filling, and the «ambience» is non-​existence, but ambience-​schmambience! £5!
i’ve been here about 20 times in my life, and no doubt shall continue to do so.
this particular branch doesnt serve alcoholic drinks, but some of the newer ones do.

Vegetarian South Indian in East Ham. There are a ton of them. So what distinguishes this one? … and don’t ask anyone, ask only a South Indian. They will tell you that this is a brand name.
It’s not great food — it’s just alright. But the kitchen is clean and the ingredients are relatively fresh. That’s really all I am looking for in an East Ham restaurant — hence the four stars. The thaali is a great deal for £6.95.
So what’s the problem here? I think, it is focus. A South Indian restaurant trying their hand at Punjabi/​North Indian cuisine? Maybe. But it doesn’t work here. They should focus on what they do best. South Indian vegetarian cuisine. One star off for this point.
They should be whipping more from the South Indian vegetarian kitchen — different kinds of rice — lemon rice, curd rice, tamarind rice, coconut rice, etc. The Pongal, which is a decadent rice dish with lots of ghee, and a popular choice, is served only on weekends. Disappointing.
They also need to work on the quality of desserts. Much work to be done here. Another star off for this.
I believe, overall, three stars is a fair non-​inflated rating. A similar restaurant in a metro city in India would definitely fare better on food quality.

I live not far from East Ham High Street and so for the many years walking up and down the high street, I had no idea that a great place like this even existed, where have you been all my life!!! Even my friend who lives up Maida Vale knows about this lovely little gem! Oh the shame.
They make Vegetarian dishes taste ever so lush! Yup it’s a vegetarian restaurant! So many South Indian dishes to chose from and dishes I have never even heard of, i wanted to order everything off the menu but instead I ordered Southern Indian Thali… it was yumm!
Good quality of food at reasonable prices, you cant go wrong!