Review Mian's Restaurant - Sydney

I love the flavor and the spice... but their portions and consistency are unacceptable. They serve roughly 1/4 of a chicken breast (3-4 "boneless" cubes) and charge nearly $20 for a plate of rice. If they weren't the best TASTING Indian food in town, I wouldn't go back here. The lovely waitress who serves my colleagues and I lunch always ensures the portions are acceptable because she understands that it's wrong what they server but if she is not working, it's not worth half of what they charge.

Oof Tomato soup with eight shreds of chicken. Rice from a sushi restaurant, and a deep fried naan? But the locals love it..

The staff was friendly but Disappointed in the food. Ordered butter chicken and it contained very little chicken. It was mostly sauce only which was bland. The beef korma was not very good either. There was more sauce than beef. Best part of the meal sadly was the rice. However they did not have any choices for rice other than plain white rice. I doubt I will give it another try or recommend to others sadly.

Not worth the price or time!!!! Our second day on our east coast tour, we thought we should try Indian, so we came across this restaurant. We ordered one butter chicken combo($16 approx) , karahi combo($15 approx), and cholay bathura($8 approx). It took them 30mins to give the order to find 3 tiny pieces of chicken in a milky gravy. And naan was like pita bread. Karahi was ok and bathura was drenched in oil. When I called the employee was trying to handle the situation but the manger was unpleasant. Didn’t have explaination or did they provide anything.

Naan is sweet and is practically a pita. coming from a family who came from Ontario this was severely underwhelming. We got chicken biryani, butter chicken and veggie samosas. Biryani is fine nothing special. however the butter chicken is buttery and gross. it's better to just buy a butter chicken sauce in a jar from your local grocery store and some chicken to throw over any white rice. I would not recommend. Not to mention there samosas are like a dessert pastry. Spent $40 bucks for a family of 3, waited 30 minutes, and we are all left hungry.

This was almost a generous 2 star review but we have a big problem here, I ordered the beef korma which was listed as $15.99 on their menu online (I have come back from later in the review to include the fact that I ordered it spicy, originally I called to order vindaloo which they don't make for some reason, and when she asked if I want the korma spicy I said "yes, Indian spicy not Cape Breton spicy" she said "okay, so extra spicy, like vindaloo spicy? " I said "yes, extra spicy") , 2 beef samosas, listed as $2.50 and the mango "smoothie" which was listed as $5, when they told me the total, $34? Okay, someone's math is wrong.. then Im told oh no, the prices aren't updated now it is $17.49, $3, $6, respectively, so okay, not a big deal, the world is a little mixed up right now financially no problem I'll pay extra for a luxury of eating restaurant takeout food, Indian food at that, which I am very pleasantly surprised to see in Cape Breton, whatever, still at my automatic start point of 5 stars, so I walk over to the restaurant, walk inside, nobody there, whatever all good Im not that picky, maybe they are super busy today, they come out she gives me the food, no complaints so far. I get back to my office and open the bag only to find disappointment, I paid 34$ for 4 chunks of beef in oily tomato sauce, half a piece of fried pita bread, white rice and some beef wontons. The korma, it was 4, 2cm cubes of fatty beef (which was not cooked offensively I might add) in oily tomato sauce, to be fair it did look and remind me of an attempt at making Korma but it is a "reimagining" of a dish very familiar to me, to put it nicely, and it was only maybe, 200 ml of sauce? For 17.49? Even with the inflated price of groceries right now this isn't more than a dollar worth of food. If the entire container had been beef Korma, it would be a discussion of wether it was a reasonable price or not. And for the record it was not spicy at all maybe maybe a 1/10 on the spice-o-meter, even for people who don't eat spicy food I suspect they would be underwhelmed. Next, we will address the rice, they advertise that it's basmati, but, let's get real, most of the locals here wouldn't know calrose from arborio, if this was basmati I'd love to know the source because it really, honestly just looked like someone made uncle bens long grain and pinched a couple of them. (Familiar Indian flavour was present but it was a little greasy) The naan, typically, naan is fluffy and bubbly and delicious, pulls apart easily but has a slight chew to it, this naan was literally fried pita bread, it was shocking, haha, seriously though I really find it hard to justify calling it naan at this point, it certainly wasn't made by hand, made to order, in a tandoori oven, not a chance, it was store bought pita bread fried, very strange, typically Indians take pride in their food and cooking and very rare that you find this treatment of one of the staples of Indian cuisine. The beef samosas were essentially plain cooked ground beef in a wonton wrapper deep fried. Nothing special but in terms of bang for your buck, relatively better than the other items I guess, the mint coriander yogurt sauce was pretty bland too no real distinct flavour. The mango lassi was pretty strange too, I only had a few in my life because I rarely would spend the money on it, but none I have had really tasted like this, it was almost powdery and very verry sweet, if you told me it was powder in yogurt I wouldn't be surprised. Overall there's not much good to say, and plenty weird, incorrect stuff going on, maybe they figure they're in a market they can trick people into thinking this is just normal authentic Indian food but I assure you it is definitely a "unique interpretation" anywhere west of the causeway or east of the ocean you won't find Indian food like this, thankfully.

The food was ok but I hope they better train their servers. Need some friendliness and when someone ask like "what would you suggest" or "what's your best selling dish" I think they should be able to give a proper answer instead of "everything is good"

Sorry ! One of the worst restaurant , We ordered paneer tikka masala and butter naan , they served packed food , After taking first bite my friend feel like vomit. Guys we paid around 80 dollars and totally wasted our money .