Melati
21 Great Windmill Street, London, W1D 7LQ
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Melati Restaurant is just a hop, skip and jump from Piccadilly Circus, and offers three floors of flavours from the mystic far East. Unpretentious and kid-friendly, visitors can select from a grand menu of authentic Indonesian, Malaysian and Singaporean dining. Favorite (and top-selling) dishes include giant bowls of Singapore laksa, a creamy coconut soup with rice, noodles and seafood, and rending padang, a heavily spicy beef curry. Set menu options are available for parties of 10 or more. With generations of families coming here, it’s easy to see how this has become a Soho institution.
| room information | seating | standing |
|---|---|---|
| Indonesian Room | 20 - 35 | 20 - 45 |
| Main Restaurant | 1 - 105 | 1 - 120 |
| Singaporean Room | 20 - 35 | 20 - 45 |
Signature meal
Laksa (spicy seafood soup).
Sample dishes
- Udang bungkus (deep fried paper wrapped prawns) £8.95
- Lumpia sayur (crispy vegetarian spring rolls) £4.25
- Mee goreng (stir fried noodles with beef, shrimps, squid and egg) £7.45
- Sambal daging goreng (sliced beef in chilli and tomato sauce) £8.95
- Kapitin goreng (deep fried soft shell crab tossed in garlic, chilli and sea salt) £10.95
Sample menus
| Cuisine: | Indonesian / Malaysian / Singaporean |
| Times: | Sun - Thurs: 12pm - 11:30pm Fri - Sat: 12pm - 12:30am |
| Dress code: | Smart casual |
| Station: | Piccadilly Circus |
| Payment: | All major cards accepted |
| Av. price: | £24 and Under |
| Only users who have booked & dined through toptable can write reviews. Why are some reviewers foodies and others nibblers? |
| anon - grazer | Overall rating: 8 |
Food 9 | Service 8 | Ambience 6 | Value 8 | Toilets 6 | Recommended 8
The Melati is a good restaurant and we had a great meal. Bit disappointed that no high chair was available.
| JG - nibbler | Overall rating: 6 |
Food 8 | Service 6 | Ambience 7 | Value 6 | Toilets - | Recommended 5
Food is quite authentic to the indonesian & malaysian style or cooking. Service was ok but does not come with any smiles. I'm not sure why people say price is on the cheap side, 3 dishes for 2 pax with white rice came up to £48. There was a compulsory 10% service charge already calculated into the bill. I wouldn't have given 10% since I didn't get any cheery service. Recommend to come only for food... even then mainly the one dish meals unless you have spare cash.
| AL - foodie | Overall rating: 8 |
Food 9 | Service 6 | Ambience 7 | Value 8 | Toilets 7 | Recommended 8
The service was slightly slow but I think this was because we confused them by ordering starters then ordering more starters and main courses (they waited to cook our mains so we waited a while for food, meanwhile getting very drunk). I actually didn't mind as I hate being rushed in restaurants and feeling like I have to wolf my food and go.
| anon - grazer | Overall rating: 8 |
Food 10 | Service 6 | Ambience 6 | Value 9 | Toilets 5 | Recommended 9
The owners of Melati clearly focus on the important business of providing fantastic food at excellent prices before worrying about the general decor, but don't let that put you off. I'll be going back. My only "complaint" would be that the Singaporean Laksa was simply too big to eat, although I did try!
| RFRNC - foodie | Overall rating: 6 |
Food 7 | Service 5 | Ambience 5 | Value 6 | Toilets 6 | Recommended 6
The food is good but the service is not excellent.When there are too many customers service is not to good.Worth a try, but wouldnt have came bak for a 2nd try.
| SH - foodie | Overall rating: 9 |
Food 9 | Service 10 | Ambience 8 | Value 9 | Toilets 10 | Recommended 10
Went there for Saturday lunch. Excellent food and service.
| anon - diner | Overall rating: 6 |
Food 6 | Service 6 | Ambience 6 | Value 6 | Toilets 6 | Recommended 6
This was my second visit to the place. It was fabulous the first time ... but i guess we were all too drunk to appreciate (or not) the food.... This time, either we made very bad choices, or it was just bad. The ginger chicken was tooooo dry and the Sambal DIDNT taste like sambal. It tasted like sweet and sour chicken.... disappointed.
| claire liew - grazer | Overall rating: 7 |
Food 8 | Service 7 | Ambience 6 | Value 7 | Toilets 6 | Recommended 8
this was my second visit to melati and i think the service was better this time. as usual the food was delicious, especially the garlic chicken - a must! the bill for 5 of us was only £70 so prices are reasonable too.
| AW - grazer | Overall rating: 9 |
Food 8 | Service 8 | Ambience 9 | Value 8 | Toilets 9 | Recommended 9
Great for a birthday celebration! I was presented with a huge plate of pineapple and banana fritters with ice cream and a candle on top and offered a HUGE birthday drink!
| SS - foodie | Overall rating: 6 |
Food 5 | Service 8 | Ambience 6 | Value 7 | Toilets 6 | Recommended 6
Melati has good asian food at a reasonable price. I have been there quite a few times, however this time i went they had seemed to have changed their menu. The food wasn't as good this time, which is a shame as i was really looking forward to it. The service was great and very attentive.
