Max's of Manila

The food here is amazing especially Chicken fried rice which is a must try item, also the masala mutton,neti mamsam biryani and Vijayawada chicken biryani stand out. The recipes are authentic that gives you the true flavours.

Not sure why this place has low ratings. I’ve ordered Uber pickup 20+ times, and they’ve never disappointed me once! In my opinion, this is one of the best biriyanis in the Bay Area. Coming from Bangalore, if you like Meghana’s style biryani, you should definitely give this a try. My top picks are their in-house Special Chicken Boneless Biryani and Vijayawada Chicken Boneless Biryani. They cook the rice to aromatic perfection and take cooking instructions very seriously. This is my go-to spot for biryani now!

Brenda Haskin

The food is too delicious. We always over order to have leftovers during the week. So Good 😋

Naga Varun Bathina

The food here is amazing especially Chicken fried rice which is a must try item, also the masala mutton,neti mamsam biryani and Vijayawada chicken biryani stand out. The recipes are authentic that gives you the true flavours.

Abdul Vahed Shaik

We really loved the vijayawada chicken biryani and curry leaf chicken was amazing too. Highly recommend their home style spicy food

anil neeluru

Tried the Chilli Chicken, Chicken Dum Biryani, Mughlai Egg, and Special Veg Biryanis — everything was super tasty! The biryanis were flavorful and aromatic, and the Chilli Chicken had the perfect amount of spice. Each dish felt fresh and satisfying.

Great food! We tried chilly Gobhi biryani for the first time and it was really nice! The spice level is mild to medium. Chicken boneless biryani and baby corn pepper fry starter was good and fresh too. We didn’t like the Salan accompanying the biryani.

Roli Agarwal

Great food! We tried chilly Gobhi biryani for the first time and it was really nice! The spice level is mild to medium. Chicken boneless biryani and baby corn pepper fry starter was good and fresh too. We didn’t like the Salan accompanying the biryani.

The Chicken Biryani here is very good, and the quantity is satisfying. The 1+1 offer on select biryanis every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday is a big plus (check availability, as it might be limited time!). Pro tip: delivery requires you to pick two of the same biryani, but picking up might let you mix and match different biryanis. My experience with their order management once was not great . When the volume of orders increased, the kitchen took over an hour to prepare my food. To worse part, someone else mistakenly picked up my order after i got prepared for an hour, and they had to repackage it, adding to my wait. I recommend the management to improve their system for handling high volumes of customers and orders. Despite the wait, the quality of the food makes this one of the best biryani choices around.

Swetha

The Chicken Biryani here is very good, and the quantity is satisfying. The 1+1 offer on select biryanis every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday is a big plus (check availability, as it might be limited time!). Pro tip: delivery requires you to pick two of the same biryani, but picking up might let you mix and match different biryanis. My experience with their order management once was not great . When the volume of orders increased, the kitchen took over an hour to prepare my food. To worse part, someone else mistakenly picked up my order after i got prepared for an hour, and they had to repackage it, adding to my wait. I recommend the management to improve their system for handling high volumes of customers and orders. Despite the wait, the quality of the food makes this one of the best biryani choices around.

Clean and hygiene, that's why I gave 2 stars. Affordable that's why I came here. But the taste of biriyani was horrible. We ordered Apollo fish 🐠 which was ok . Mutton biriyani was very sour and I felt like eating pickle rice with marinated goat. Good part is quality of mutton was fantastic, tender, and juicy and for sure fresh. But the cooking taste was horrible. Same with chicken. Sopeta juice was nice

The quality of the food was not so good. We ordered chili chicken, Ulavacharu chicken briyani and Boneless chicken curry combo. Combo comes with three roti’s. It felt the Chicken used for chili chicken wasn’t fresh. Even though we dined in roti was becoming like papad before we finished eating. Boneless chicken curry taste was just ok Ulavacharu chicken briyani taste was good .

IF YOU WANT AN EXTRA RAITA OR SALNA WITH YOUR BIRYANI, it’s a DOLLAR EACH!!! 😂😂😂😂 I usually love this place for their kaju chicken and not gonna lie, it’s really good! They’ve got good biryani too. Nothing extraordinary though! But but but they’ve started charging 1 dollar each for an extra salna and raita. This is a joke at this point and take your time..laugh about it. EDIT: RESPONSE TO THE OWNER’s COMMENT I do actually know how much it costs to make a small raita & the effort it takes to run a restaurant. I have close friends who have worked in Indian restaurants and I know all about what goes on in a kitchen, so that argument of yours is not going to work with me. Having said that, I never undermined the effort or hard work of anyone, but a dollar each for less than 2 oz. of raita or salan seems too overpriced. I'm not saying give it out for free, but a reasonable price point of $0.30 - $0.40 makes more sense to me, but it's your business so keep it up! People are definitely able to enjoy good food in Indian restaurants, but no customer is going to gauge a restaurant on the basis of their hard work alone. The "hard work" you put in to respond to people negatively on the reviews is certainly not worthwhile.

Sharmili Roy

Clean and hygiene, that's why I gave 2 stars. Affordable that's why I came here. But the taste of biriyani was horrible. We ordered Apollo fish 🐠 which was ok . Mutton biriyani was very sour and I felt like eating pickle rice with marinated goat. Good part is quality of mutton was fantastic, tender, and juicy and for sure fresh. But the cooking taste was horrible. Same with chicken. Sopeta juice was nice

Nk S

The quality of the food was not so good. We ordered chili chicken, Ulavacharu chicken briyani and Boneless chicken curry combo. Combo comes with three roti’s. It felt the Chicken used for chili chicken wasn’t fresh. Even though we dined in roti was becoming like papad before we finished eating. Boneless chicken curry taste was just ok Ulavacharu chicken briyani taste was good .

spandana patnaik

IF YOU WANT AN EXTRA RAITA OR SALNA WITH YOUR BIRYANI, it’s a DOLLAR EACH!!! 😂😂😂😂 I usually love this place for their kaju chicken and not gonna lie, it’s really good! They’ve got good biryani too. Nothing extraordinary though! But but but they’ve started charging 1 dollar each for an extra salna and raita. This is a joke at this point and take your time..laugh about it. EDIT: RESPONSE TO THE OWNER’s COMMENT I do actually know how much it costs to make a small raita & the effort it takes to run a restaurant. I have close friends who have worked in Indian restaurants and I know all about what goes on in a kitchen, so that argument of yours is not going to work with me. Having said that, I never undermined the effort or hard work of anyone, but a dollar each for less than 2 oz. of raita or salan seems too overpriced. I'm not saying give it out for free, but a reasonable price point of $0.30 - $0.40 makes more sense to me, but it's your business so keep it up! People are definitely able to enjoy good food in Indian restaurants, but no customer is going to gauge a restaurant on the basis of their hard work alone. The "hard work" you put in to respond to people negatively on the reviews is certainly not worthwhile.

We ordered spl boneless chicken briyani and Apollo fish. Took 25 mins to get the fish starter, another 5 mins for biryani. Apollo fish was mediocre, more deep fried marinated masala than actual fish portion. Chicken in the biryani felt old, not up to the expectations. Must say disappointed in all. To add to it, regional TV serial atmosphere made it much worse.

SasiKumar Arumugam

We ordered spl boneless chicken briyani and Apollo fish. Took 25 mins to get the fish starter, another 5 mins for biryani. Apollo fish was mediocre, more deep fried marinated masala than actual fish portion. Chicken in the biryani felt old, not up to the expectations. Must say disappointed in all. To add to it, regional TV serial atmosphere made it much worse.

I have been a regular customer for past 4 years at Milpitas location; Mostly I do prefer placing GRUBHUB pickup order. After management change, am seeing a common trend of confused orders handling while quantity/box sizes got reduced. ------------------------------- Cashier/Front desk person(s) are unable to confirm whether order is ready or NOT? how long it will take? They are responding without concern - please wait sir!!!! Nothing else & no apology for delaying your order by 45mins even after GRUBHUB says is it ready!!! ------------------------------------ Free tea may NOT coverup your operational inefficiency & NOT for long customers will visit for food taste. -------------------------------- After more than one bad experience, am giving this review. Will continue to visit restaurant & publish new review if it improves ------------------------------

Anantharaj TV

I have been a regular customer for past 4 years at Milpitas location; Mostly I do prefer placing GRUBHUB pickup order. After management change, am seeing a common trend of confused orders handling while quantity/box sizes got reduced. ------------------------------- Cashier/Front desk person(s) are unable to confirm whether order is ready or NOT? how long it will take? They are responding without concern - please wait sir!!!! Nothing else & no apology for delaying your order by 45mins even after GRUBHUB says is it ready!!! ------------------------------------ Free tea may NOT coverup your operational inefficiency & NOT for long customers will visit for food taste. -------------------------------- After more than one bad experience, am giving this review. Will continue to visit restaurant & publish new review if it improves ------------------------------

Ordered takeout of Kaju Chicken 65 and Gobi 65, and both were terrible. They caused immediate stomach upset. The chicken was definitely stale, and I'm unsure if the same applies to the Gobi 65. Definitely ordering first time in here, not sure about other dishes . But Never taking the risk to order AGAIN **CAUTION*** DO NOT FALL SICK eating at this place, unless the management takes precautions to fix it

Today we ordered a gobi veg biryani at this place. We ordered two biryani and we found a roach/ spider in one of them. Really very bad experience with this place.

Avee Arora

Ordered 2 panner biryani but it had chicken in it along with panner in both orders.

Georgey

Ordered takeout of Kaju Chicken 65 and Gobi 65, and both were terrible. They caused immediate stomach upset. The chicken was definitely stale, and I'm unsure if the same applies to the Gobi 65. Definitely ordering first time in here, not sure about other dishes . But Never taking the risk to order AGAIN **CAUTION*** DO NOT FALL SICK eating at this place, unless the management takes precautions to fix it

Ganga kumari Kamboji

Today we ordered a gobi veg biryani at this place. We ordered two biryani and we found a roach/ spider in one of them. Really very bad experience with this place.

Ordered a Andhra chicken curry through Grubhub. The curry is hot but chicken isn't fresh. It feels like yesterday's curry has been packed up to deliver today. Worst experience. Never ordering from here again.

This place used to be good before the management change. We were regular customers for several years, but after the change(to den), they often mix up the biryanis and even serve old biryani. Since we order regularly, we can easily tell the difference. When we informed the management, instead of checking with the kitchen, they dismissed our concern by saying both were paneer biryani and asked whats the difference. Not sure why they have different types in menu then.

I’m a professional chef, and this was honestly the worst biryani I’ve ever had. There was no spice or depth of flavor at all. The rice was mostly dry, plain white rice mixed into the biryani, which completely ruined the authenticity. It felt like the quality issue is the reason they are running buy-one-get-one offers. Overall, a very disappointing experience. I wouldn’t recommend this place to anyone looking for real biryani.

V Creation’S

I’m a professional chef, and this was honestly the worst biryani I’ve ever had. There was no spice or depth of flavor at all. The rice was mostly dry, plain white rice mixed into the biryani, which completely ruined the authenticity. It felt like the quality issue is the reason they are running buy-one-get-one offers. Overall, a very disappointing experience. I wouldn’t recommend this place to anyone looking for real biryani.

Venkatesh Sundararaj

This place used to be good before the management change. We were regular customers for several years, but after the change(to den), they often mix up the biryanis and even serve old biryani. Since we order regularly, we can easily tell the difference. When we informed the management, instead of checking with the kitchen, they dismissed our concern by saying both were paneer biryani and asked whats the difference. Not sure why they have different types in menu then.