Mayur Indian Restaurant

When in the Netherlands, eat. Indian food? In Leidseplein it is easier to find non-​Dutch food than Dutch food.
I had dinner here because it was one of the less über casual restaurants in the area.
I got the butter chicken, which was decent. The portion size was a lot less than the typical European portion size. In the whole tin, there were seven or eight 1 Euro coin-​sized chicken medallions. Given it was € 23, I definitely felt shorted. The accompaniments and naan were just okay.
The service was alright.
I’d say pass if you are strolling by to find a restaurant, but if you are looking to scratch an itch for Indian food, it’s serviceable.

The only reason they get 2 stars is because I can ride a cab almost right to the front door of the restaurant.
I have been here thrice and have always had bad experiences with the service. The quality of food has been alright, except that rice isn’t the high quality basmati that you would expect. Also, what’s with the serving size no bigger than 2 – 3 tablespoons full of curry? They even put a warning at the bottom of their menu asking everyone at the table to order at least a main dish.
That and the exorbitant prices for slow and impersonal service aren’t even the main reasons to avoid Mayur; they are almost deceptive with their reservations system. They will never have a table ready for you, or at least that has been my experience. You will have to wait, you will be rudely told how it’s your own fault for not getting seated, and you will still have to read glaring reviews on other websites (possibly scam?) talking about their wonderful service and food.
They will tell you that while you wait 10 – 15 minutes to get your reserved table, you could sit in their lounge and order drinks, except that they don’t have a drinks menu (only wine), or even cocktails. I have never seen anyone gladly enjoy drinks in the lounge. Who would want to, especially when they didn’t get a table when they reserved one? If you ask them to bring out an appetizer or two while you wait, the hostess would have no idea if they can do so and then simply disappear, never to come back again.
After three opportunities I am ready to strike off Mayur from my list of ‘terrible experiences that deserve another chance’.

The MAYUR is an awesome restaurant with veryvery friendly staff and amazingly delicious food. It DOES look a little bit on the pricey side on the first look — but after tasting the food, you come to realize that it is worth every cent. The group of us haven’t eaten that delicious indian food in a long long time.
Highly reco this place.

2.5 stars*** Came here with a group of 8 or so w/​reservation for dinner a week ago. The Indian food here was great (liked the chicken tikka marsala) and we had about 5 – 6 different curries, garlic and plain nann, and mango lassi. The reason for the three star is that dinner took 3 hours because they were so so so slow at serving food (due to lots of BIC Pol and our big table). Also, it was extremely hot in there and everyone at the table was complaining about the heat and the restaurant seemed to have no AC.

Located very close to the American Hotel near the restaurant row/​tourist shopping area. Very nice décor, feels classy, more upscale, sexy, romantic, good for groups or for a date or just a small group of friends/​family. Good service for the dutch (everything seems to be done VERY slowly in Amsterdam). Ordered the chicken tikka masala (sauce was below average compared to the states, but ok), lamb curry (in red sauce, meat was good). Lamb and chicken tandoori (both were great). Saffron rice, good. Okra, salty and smaller than normal in size (the okra), but good. Naan was not good compared to US, dryer and less fluffy, more flat and overcooked. Samosas were also not the same as in the US, smaller, less potato, shrimp tandoori appretizer were good, lamb appetizer was the BEST! Could have eaten that alone. Pakora was overcooked and overflavored. I love Indian food, but to me, this was below par. However for Amsterdam, it was probably average to above average as there aren’t many options! Friend has the Cobra beer and said it was good.

After messing up our reservations and being unapologetic about it, we sit 6 to a cramped table meant for 4. Aside from the meat being over seasoned, every curry looked like they all came from the same pot with the exception of some last minute food coloring action. This place used to be the shit back in the day (which was a Wednesday btw) but I’m sure there are much better places out there now. Oh and my ice cream tasted like frozen milk. Icicles and all.