Malabar Restaurant - Zürich

Friendly service, superb food, nice athmosphere.

The review is for the cooking course the restaurant offers. I was coming in with very high expectations, and was unfortunately very disappointed. First of all, the communication and everything before the course was in English, while on the actual day, the expectation is that...everything is in (Swiss) German the owner was nice enough to at least speak High German and/or a little bit of English, but I would definitely like to be warned about this beforehand. Then, you personally do basically none of the cooking as the attendee some of the folks were able to mix, but all chopping, measuring, ... was done by the owner, hence basically no hands on experience. Furthermore, the course is really spread out, there were maybe 2 hours out of the 7 we spent there where we were just sitting and waiting around for something to happen. I was also surprised that we were basically kept hungry from 10am to 5pm apart from a tiny bit of sampling samosas at the very beginning, and a bite of naan in the middle; I really didn't expect that I'd need to bring my own lunch to a full day of cooking course. And to top it off, the food that we had in the end was oversalted to the point that I only enjoyed it because I was practically starving by the time we got to eat it. If I paid maybe CHF 80 for this experience, I would maybe be able to handle it better. But CHF 140 were definitely way, way too much for what you're getting.

Excellent food and very kind personnel. One of the best Indian places i have been so far.

It was good, but in terms of price-performance ratio I got more for my money in other Indian restaurants.

Köstliches indisches Essen. Das Chicken Tikka Masala ist hervorragend.