3 Idiots

Not many Indian restaurants here in Melbourne have been able to retain true Indian essence with fusion Indian food. This has to be one of those few! A small but absolutely warm and welcoming place! Great hosts and hospitality. Loved the cocktails and the creativity around it! The starters were really nice. A special mention to the special 3 idiots cheese stuffed beetroot kulcha! Loved it! As suggested it can be had as a separate dish in itself! The veg main course was little bland for my taste palette. Did not taste non-veg main course but I was told it tasted very good! We tasted most of the desserts, they were subtle and yum! Finally tried filter coffee in Melbourne! Authentic taste!

Wrote the below review a month ago, and today we drove back down again for another feed. Chose the 'Feed Me Idiots' chef's choice menu this time. Great value. We were stuffed. Staff just as friendly and obliging and the quality of the food was outstanding. This time I remembered to take some photos! ... Best Indian I've had in years. Friendly and attentive staff and everything was made with care and skill. Even the small dishes like the pappadums, the chutney and the raita, which other restaurants often can't be bothered to exert themselves over, were a cut above. They've got a great mix of curry house staples, and also some more unusual/modern takes which I loved seeing. Completely forgot to take photos of anything until desert came out. Too busy digging in. My husband and I live 2 hours away, but we're already talking about making the trip down to eat here again.

We ordered couple of dishes such as calamari 65, butter chicken and bhindi. Except bhindi, rest of the dishes were super delicious. For Bhindi, it was too salty so we had requested the check the salt level and staff mentioned that they can’t do anything as we make bhindi like this. For people who eat normal salt level can ignore bhindi in this restaurant. Rest of the dishes are worth try.

Great food and hospitality. We tried the fried chicken ribs, paneer tikka and prawns for entrée. All the entrées were amazing. The paneer tikka presentation was eye catching. For main course we ordered the Sindhi mutton, chef recommended butter chicken and black daal. Mutton was very succulent and full of flavour and butter chicken was amazing with just the right smokiness. Daal was nice too. The best course was desserts. We got the home made cassata, kharwas panacotta and vegan gajar halwa. Cassata was to die for followed by panacotta (loved the mango pearls). Gajar halwa was a nice take for vegan guests. In all great modern take on Indian cuisine with presentation and combinations of dips and smoke but being very authentic with flavours. It’s a must visit.