GoGo's Madras Curry House

Posted by: Lolly123 | 10 October 2011, 7.41pm

This was my second time to Go Go's but obviously things changed a lot since last time.

The food was okay but the place left a bad taste in my mouth. For example, they don't ask you if you want water but they put a large water bottle on your table and automatically put it on the bill - we had to ask for it to be taken off. Surcharges on credit cards must be more than recouping the cost - 1.5% for Visa & Mcard, 3.5% for Amex. $10 corkage and $10 cakeage is extortion. And then there is the meals. $15 for a tasting plate with about 4 things on it. $22 for tandoori chicken two or three little pieces seems a bit on the light side for me.

I told the waitress that I was disappointed in the fees and surcharges along with what I considered to be prices at the upper end of the scale. She basically shrugged her shoulders.

Those that go based on recommendations of others - check when they last went, because I think you are now better off going elsewhere - check the price list and remember that the servings are not generous (or stingy).

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Posted by: AJR2 | 17 June 2011, 7.58pm

I went on recommendation from friends. There were 8 of us and we were urged to get the banquet. Of the 5 dishes we had, the jalfrezi was the only dish that was enjoyed. They were happy to bring us 2 more small dishes of jalfrezi. When we requested a third, it was so hot not one person could eat it. They also bought out plain rice that time. We felt like we were being told "you've had enough" even though the rice and jalfrezi were the only dishes refilled. Way to noisy and too closely packed(the woman behind me kept bumping my chair) The naan was nice and light too but I wouldn't bother with gogos again.

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Posted by: Ozzisheila | 7 November 2010, 2.59pm

Four of us had the banquet dinner and WOW, it was fantastic. So much food we couldn't eat it all and we are all big eaters. The food was delicious and the entrees were wonderful with samples of dishes we wouldn't normally have come across. Can recommend. We will return.

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Posted by: parsnip21 | 17 May 2010, 12.28pm

After having booked through a friend's recommendation, I was concerned when I read some of the earlier reviews, but decided to go anyway. We had great food, very good service, and while the charge for water and corkage is on the high side, it certainly didn't detract from an overall pleasant experience - one which we will repeat very soon - well done Gogo's!

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Posted by: hep_indian | 17 August 2009, 1.18pm

Our experience at this restaurant was very disappointing. The goat rogan josh was nowhere near authentic. The eggplant preparation was very mediocre. The restaurant does not serve free water in jugs but instead charged $3.50 per bottle of Coolridge water. If you have a lot of people at your table, your bill for bottled water can be very high. $10 corkage per bottle of wine...wow....you'd expect the quality of the food to justify that but it does not. Will not be going back.

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Posted by: jonsherry | 17 June 2009, 3.01pm

Ten of us went to the "Go Go" for a gogo Curry extravaganza, and we were not dissapointed in any way! The words excellent! superb! and delicous! come to mind. The service and food were excellent, and GoGo himself appeared and ensured we had as much of the delicous food as we wanted - top marks to all at Go Go's!

We will all definitely be going again, but one small observation we made was that the table for 10 of us was a bit too small, otherwise an excellent meal and a great evening was had by us all. Thanks GoGo!

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Posted by: quicky | 24 April 2009, 4.08pm

I initially went to this restaraunt because it has featured heavily in the local "rag" whenever the Indian cricket team comes to town.....what a mistake!!

I don't think I've been to too many restaraunts with the same appalling level of service! And that includes restaurants in the sub continent

Service is atrocious....inattentive waitpersons too eager to clear tables while you pop out for a smoke. Slap dash attitudes to everything including teh wine presentation.

Food is OK...altough I've had much better from Indian restaurants in the UK.

Be warned - stay well clear unless you don't mind a substandard service level

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Posted by: Lovesfood | 2 April 2009, 4.38pm

I was told that this eatery was good unfortunately the person who recommended this place has taken us out to a proper and decent Indian Restaurant since. The prices for the meals served is too much, service there is none and the fellow who waited on us acted as if he was doing us a favour and not his job. Will not return and will not recommend.

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Posted by: foreva | 17 January 2009, 6.14pm

I was recommended by a friend to try Gogo's Madras Curry House and I was very disappointed.

Food: The food was tasty but it was not worth the price. We ordered Butter Chicken, Beef Vindaloo, Eggplant, Biryani rice, Papadum and Garlic Naan. We were given 3 pieces of Papadum and it cost us $3.95. Too pricy.

Service: Waiters were slow and not the most professional. We had a waiter reach over the head of my husband to remove the wine glass from the table. We also had to wait a long time for our order to be taken.

Atmosphere: We were sitting at the front part of the restaurant which had a lot of flies. Very annoying. The other parts of the restaurant were decorated with cricket memorabilia.

Summary: Not a place I will go again.

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Posted by: etp | 14 January 2009, 1.45pm

I've lived in Asia for several years and also travelled India a few times.

The first time we went to GoGo's there were 11 of us, the waiter was very accommodating considering we had a mixture of vegans, vegetarians, non-seafood eaters and complete carnivores! He arranged a banquet meal for us all, making sure we all got an equal amount of food suited to each of us. We paid the usual banquet price and had 4 containers of food left over to take home and feed us all for lunch the following day.

Yes, you have to wait a while (sometimes an hour) for the food. But that's the traditional way in India, but the food is worth the wait. Why not sit back, relax, and have a wine, isn't that the main reason we go out for dinner, to socialise?

Be sure to book ahead! I recommend GoGo's to everyone.

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Posted by: keryn Clark | 1 January 2009, 3.29pm

I've been prompted to write this review as a result of my surprise at reading the negative comments about this restaurant. I have eaten at Go Go's many times and in many different moods. The fact that you have to book says a lot about their popularity but even if you don't book, the staff have always tried to be accommodating. But let's get onto the food. The food is and has been every time I have there, superb. Last night I ordered the banquet and my only regret is the increase on my scale this morning. It was fabulous. The staff are courteous and efficient given that it's a very busy restaurant - I have never found them to be rude, disinterested or plain slack. The longevity of this restaurant says much about its success and the quality of its cuisine - and if you don't want to believe me, take it from all the international cricketers who eat there and whose memorabilia line the walls. I find the comments about it to be unfounded and unfair, in my experience.

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Posted by: rosrmary | 10 December 2008, 11.48am

We found the service to be very good, in fact just right. Very pleasant, smiling waiter who advised us on the menu. We found his suggestions to be very helpful and went with the banquet as he suggested.
The food was great beginning with two tasting plates, followed by our selected mains. The goat curry was just beautiful. The saag gosht, prawn masala and chicken dish (can't remember the name) were all delicious, not too hot. We were given some lovely spicy pickles and luscious garlic naan to complete the meal, and all in all it was a night to remember.

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Posted by: beezwax | 27 October 2008, 5.33pm

The food was fine but there are plenty of other Indian restaurants in Perth that are as good if not better. The wait staff were disinterested and insincere. The food was not brought out at the same time and our group often had to stop and wait for dishes or rice to arrive. It's a lot of money to spend to then still come away with a disappointing dining experience!

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Posted by: Mahendra | 20 August 2008, 12.03am

Service was terrible and food was mediocre at best!
After being seated, we waited quite a while for a waitperson to take our order. Our attempts to make eye contact with the wait staff were in vain. We ordered a pappadum starter with chutney and raita, two mains, plain rice, one garlic naan (on recommendation) and drinks.
When other tables were served their drinks and we weren't (our pappadums were already served) we had to ask for our drinks. The mains and rice arrived shortly, but the rice was not plain rice as ordered bu Kesari rice which is yellow in colour. We went ahead with it because we didn't want to wait any longer. A few minutes later we asked about the naan and we were told 'it was coming'. Well, it didn't arrive, and we finished our meal.
When we went up to pay for the meal, we asked to check the itemised account to ensure we were not charged for the garlic naan. We were then told that the reason we didn't get the naan was because it wasn't on the original order in the first place!
The service was poor, the rice was not the one we ordered, we had to ask again for our drinks and we never got the naan that was apparently 'coming'. To end the nasty matter, they wanted to charge us 3.5% fee for using an Amex card! I ended up using my Visa card instead.

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Posted by: Amazed | 6 August 2008, 9.09pm

A group of us went to Gogo's for a birthday dinner. And it was a totally disappointing evening!

The corkage price was unbelievable, seeing as though we didn't even get a ice bucket for our bottle of white.

We ordered the banquet after being assured by the waiter that we could have all that we want of the 5 dishes we ordered. After ordering the entrees came quite promptly. However, so did 3 baskets of papadams and 2 hours later our mains!

Trying to get the waiters attention was very much a task.

After eating the birthday cake (which we were charged $5 'cakage' for) we attempted to complain about the waiting times but were dismissed.

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Posted by: MATT3000 | 10 July 2008, 3.52pm

We decided to eat at GoGo's on the recommendation of family as they had a nice meal on a previous occassion.

The night did not start well as we had booked and requested a table inside and was moved to an outside table as we were told that the table was given to a larger group. Being outside we could not enjoy any of the memorabilia or atmosphere of the restaurant.

The table then did not have cutlery for each person which we had to request from two separate waiters. We then needed wine glasses and also after asking three separate waiters finally received them half an hour into our meal.

We ordered a banquet of 5 dishes so that everyone could try which was a good suggestion by the waiter and this would also come with an entree tasting plate.

The entree took 45 minutes to arrive and then came in two separate protions the next 5 minutes after the first lot was served. We then watched other tables around us get served and given food while we waited for our mains.

We asked the waiter to check on the mains and he did not return for another 15 minutes. After waiting one and a half hours for any mains we decided to leave.

The food of which we only sampled the entrees was very nice but the service was so disappointing that I would not recommend anyone to go to this restaurant.

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Posted by: inedible | 30 June 2008, 4.34am

We came to the restaurant knowing beforehand from word of mouth that the service was poor but the food made up for it. I was disappointed in both, especially the service.

Food: I ordered the lamb vartha curry. I've only had Indian once before so I don't know much about Indian food. What I know is that my mother (I'm Viet) can cook curries as good as Indian curries, or at least this place. While the food was okay/goodish, I could have eaten for free at home! We ordered mains each and the servings were quite small. I was filled because rice fills me up but I don't want to be eating out and be full just because of rice.

Service: The service was appalling. Many times we tried to get the attention of the waiters and they walked straight past. I think I tried at least 10 times and not a glance our way. We waited for nearly an hour for food (I don't usually wait this long, maybe it's usual for others but this I can't stand).
Then my friend wanted the dessert menu so she can order some for take away and the waiter told us to wait and didn't come back until 10 minutes later and said that we had to leave soon because the next customers were arriving soon. "A waiter will come around in a couple of minutes." We were stunned and quickly left.

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Posted by: UnhappyTG | 6 June 2008, 12.28pm

After recommendations to eat at GoGo's a group of us went for a birthday dinner, looking forward to this apparently fantastic place with amazing food, good service and interesting cricket memoriabilia around the place. Yes there was great memoriabilia but generally GoGo's was very disappointing.
The service was terrible - it took over 90 minutes to get our mains. When the meals finally came the dishes were very small and most didn't contain much meat. The corkage price was ridiculous. They talk up the $35 pp "buffet option... eat as much as you can... will be enough for everyone... we'll just keep bringing food out" which sounded great but they don't keep bringing food out, it wasn't enough for everyone and was a total waste of money.

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Posted by: whinerdiner | 31 January 2008, 9.49pm

Walking down Beaufort street and was tempted to try this Indian place. Though there were some enjoyable elements to the night, the main meals were too small and too expensive. The main dishes had little meat content and would not even be as large as an entree at any other restaurant.

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Posted by: Calida | 17 October 2006, 10.17pm

Not much for atmosphere except for a cricket fan. The chef and owner of the restaurant has an interesting story behind the various signed dinner plates of the various cricket teams that played that the WACA.

The food was fabulous. For entrees we tried the Cheese kurkuries and the Tandoori mixed plate. Cheese kurkuries are spring roll in shape with cheese in them. Mains: Goan fish curry, not too spicy just right, Lamb Varthka (forgive my spelling) with plain naan & keema naan. My friend is hooked on to the chef's cooking he says its the best naans he has had in W.A.

Service was good as well. Prompt service and they don't hassle you every five minutes like some of the other restaurants I've been to where everyone second waiter/ess comes to you and asks about your meal. It may be customer service but it gets too much at times.

Value of money, absolutely. I will definitely recommend this restaurant to Indian food lovers or anyone who is interested in trying something new. Hats off to you, chef.

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