Maya Masala

We ate at the Northbridge restaurant, service was slow but the food was really good! We ordered three things and they all came out a different times (first after 30 mins…) but the food tasted fresh from the kitchen. There was a samosa dish that we ordered (around $ 8) it had so much flavour, was kinda like a diced up samosa with heaps of seasoning and sauce — high recommend ordering this!

I used to love this place, I had tried almost every dish, but then I had a bad experience, and now I am a little hesitant about going back. The samosas and bombi potato and delicious. The bad experience came from a butter chicken dish, as tasty as it was at the time, a few hours later, I was vomiting. Kind of put me off going back.

I thought nothing could rival Thali Indian in the Carillon City Food Court for title of ‘food-court-food-that’s-actually-amazing-and-authentic.’ (Yes, that’s the technical term). But I was wrong.
I now have two places to go to in the city when I’m after a quick Indian food fix.
And not just quick — good, too.
It is SO hard finding decent food court food, and places like this just make my day that little bit happier. If you’re in the Hay Street Mall and feel a craving coming on for a good curry, definitely give Maya Masala a try.

There’s something about food court Indian that scares me. I think it’s the heat lamps: they make the vindaloo shimmer. It’s probably the trough-​like nature of the whole, too. Thai and Chinese food court joints tend to sidestep this by showcasing their pre-​made food in woks. But with Indian I always feel like I’m in a US high school cafeteria.
Except, that is, in the case of Maya Masala, which allays my fears by being so damned good. I am actually well-​acquainted with two of its many Western Australian outlets, having eaten at both Karrinyup Shopping Centre’s and enex100’s franchises. This is a review of the latter, though the comments on the food are relevant to both.
Although you have to be sure that you get it freshly cooked, and not after it’s been sitting there for a while, I go in for the tandoori chicken, usually with a side serving of the garlic naan. Speaking of naan, Maya Masala offers more versions of the flatbread – from butter to paneer and back again – than most non-​food court restaurants. I also like the chicken jalfrezi, which for money has always outdone the more popular but less interesting butter chicken.
Like all the stores in enex100’s Podium, with the exception of Delisio and Phi Yen, Maya Masala’s seating is in the main part of the food court, and as such can be quite loud during lunchtime on weekdays.