Dakshin Indian Cuisine

I always come here for Chicken biryani. Other stuff I’ve tried here sometimes lack a bit of consistency in taste. But their Chicken biryani is heaven!

Dakshin is the only Indian restaurant in Schaumburg area which shows consistency. Initial days after the renovation, the place wasnt upto the mark, but for past couple of weeks they are back to standard. I hope they will continue.

Their. Medhu vada. Is excellent. South Indian. Curries are very delicious .
Coffee. Tastes like pure. Iyyangar. Palghat coffee.
It was. Very tasty.

This place has gone worse after
looks much better after expansion with many table and spacious but the quality has gone for a toss. Went in on a Sunday afternoon 1.30 Was shocked to see hardly 2 ppl. Dakshin always offer decent food but then on a Sunday there wew no plates no starters no desert and quality was so bad. No wonder there we’re no ppl.

I will never go back here, overpriced for quality of food and service. For that same amount of buffet price, you can get good brunch at a trendy downtown spot. Why go to such a dingy Indian place with terrible service if they are not even cheap enough!
On a busy weekend lunch time, their only restroom was out of order! That is completely unacceptable, why can’t they call an emergency plumber? Probably trying save a few pennies by waiting till weekday which is ridiculous. They should have atleast offered me a discount after I pointed out. Even a dunkin donut or Subway has a working restroom, so this place is even below those.
Food was blah, buffet plates were never replenished, all dishes had same kind of flavor. They ran out of plates, and only had styrofoam paper plates, again reeking of consistently bad quality.

Home Cooked!
This place took me home immediately with t their awesome dishes! Can’t wait to go back

I have been going here over a year. Wonderful South Indian buffet. I have taken several of my colleagues here and also have catered for parties. Their lunch box is a great deal!

If you serve undercooked frozen parota, then you are not fit to be a restaurant. Dakshin is a Tamil restaurant. Everyone from the cooks to the wait staff speak Tamil. Parota being a tamil/​Kerala dish, I decided to give it a shot. I had dined here earlier about a year ago and the food was about par. I had had biryani, which is not a Tamil dish. On the second chance they have really messed up.
On a weekday night, while only one other table was occupied, it took them 35 minutes to get the food out. The waiter brought my food boxed to go, while I was dining in. This is a minor inconvenience if the food was good.
Parota is a soft bread made from maida. The one they served was a wheat roti, which was hard and broke like papad. Would have been okay with it, had it been tasty and well cooked. A lot of indian restaurants use frozen parota, but at least make some effort to get a good quality one and disguise it. This one a blatant poor effort.
Sorry, but won’t go back.

Place is small if you are not worried about good ambience but that’s not a big concern. For me the items and its taste if I would like to visit again or not. I had lunch buffet as my friend took me there if I like to have South Indian food. Non-​veg items are less compared to veg items. Pooris are very hard. We call it poori when it gets puffed but the ones we had are like flat, hard tacos. I didn’t liked the appetizer as well it was cut mirchi. Pongal and sambhar were good. Desserts were nice.
Overall for the price doesn’t worth the quality of the food.

If you are not worried about the ambience then this is a good South Indian food place joint. If u have people in your party that may want indo-​Chinese instead then this is the place. Wife and I got the Dosas and iddlys. My kids focused on Noodles. Do try the Dakshin special dosa.

Very good good for the price. But man this place looks dingy. The seating and décor is bare minimum. The staff is courteous and food is usually hot and flavorful. Try to keep away from the washroom, it will remind you of being in a bus station washroom back in India! My fave here is Veg Kotthu Parota.

Tried this place again to see if there is any improvement. It has become a true hole in the wall.
No rotis in the buffet, hard-​dry pooris, sambar as flavorless as sand water.
Hard to believe they would get any repeat customers. Made sure to mention the terrible experience of the buffet to the staff. Seemed hardly bothered. Only dish worth eating was the jamun. Remind me to head to Masala (Warrenville) next time

Really good Indian food, but man, it looks terrible. The inside is hot as hell and it looks absolutely run down. I’m all for dives, but this is maybe taking it too far. The food is delicious though. I’d do takeout or something. It’s pretty spicy and I grew up eating this kind of food! I would drink that rasam all day long though — perfectly spiced!

Authentic South Indian place. Love the baby corn fry and mushroom fry. Have been here for dinner several times and always left satisfied. Can get crowded during weekend lunch buffet. Would come back whenever I get a chance.

Its a small hole in the wall type of place that serves awesome Indian food, I happened to discover this place some 10 years ago, and try to visit every time I am in Chicagoland. The flavours are very good, its good South Indian Food.

My goto place when I crave a dosa (with chutney & sambar). Love LOVE the dosa. 4 stars ONLY for the dosa :)
Skip the buffet. Meh !

Great place for wonderful masala dosas!!! The dosas (crepes) were savory and crisp and the masala (potatoes, onions and peas) were really fresh and flavorful. Mango lassi was on point. Can’t wait to go back for more!

As much as I am a fan of this place, I have to say they do suffer from a lack of consistency at times. Maybe the main cooks were on vacation but the weekend buffet after new years was a bit disappointing. Plus they didn’t have the ven pongal I like. The upma looked greasy and underspiced. the puri masala was just okay. the onion pakoda was good. the indo-​Chinese items weren’t too appealing. maybe the spread that day didn’t display their best. The service is still good.
Sigh…I have to hope next time I go, I see the items I like done well.

So was here with a group of friends — 5 of us had come for Sunday Lunch, pleasantly surprised to find variety of south indian food. So, let me start off by saying there was less of appetizers and bread; in appetizers only onion pakora was there, not sure if I would call idli manchurian as entrée or appetizer, though that looked pretty exotic — don’t think that is authentic south indian, but that tasted fine though, in non-​veg — there was thai prawn which were good, well cooked. Poori was the only bread item, my only complaint was that they should have had one more bread item — roti/​chappathi or naan or something because there was a lot of masala to choose from.
Tiffin items — these were all really really good — Poori to be eaten with Aloo Masala, onion uthappam and ven pongal — to be eaten with Sambar and variety of chutneys to choose from. Variety of entrée masala — Kadai Paneer, some mushroom curry, some poriyal (dry), vegetable masala (coconut based — white in color). Non veg ones — chicken masala, goat masala.
Rice Items — Tomato rice, Fried rice and plain rice. Goat Briyani in the non-​veg section.
Desserts — Ladoo, Mango Kulfi (in a hotpack — so dont miss it), gulab jamun and carrot payasam. Obviously all the desserts were good — gulab jamun definitely by far the best one I have had among other Indian joints.
Items which definitely deserve a mention:
(a) Ven Pongal and Oothapam — the best that I have tasted among maybe close to 6 Indian restaurants I have gone.
(b) Chicken Masala — Oh my god I can just live everyday on that (as long as I have some bread item with it)
© Carrot Payasam — wow. That was too good.
Weekend Lunch if you want to go somewhere with good quality South indian Food, this is the place to be. I mean the only thing place is small, so might want to get there a little early, we reached there today only at 1 pm, I thought it was fine.

Even though Dakshin looks really seedy, it has incredible food. The chicken vindaloo is probably the best Indian dish I’ve had anywhere, and even the paratha was really good. I tried to buy the recipe to the lamb vindaloo but unfortunately it’s not for sale. :)
UPDATE: On Friday evenings and some holidays, they only offer a buffet. It’s pretty awful. I’d recommend coming in any other day, especially if it’s your first time.