Madurai Kitchen is an Indian restaurant located in Arlington Heights, IL, serving many amazing dishes. So if you enjoy authentic, aromatic flavors and a healthy dose of spice, we are the prime destination for delicious Indian food. Our menu features a variety of traditional dishes carefully prepared to ensure the best taste every single time you dine with us. So whether you’re trying Indian food for the first time or are a long-time patron of our restaurant, you are sure to enjoy every bite.
Based on 481 reviews, the restaurant has received a rating of 4.4 stars. Price $$
✔️ Dine-in ✔️ Takeout ✔️ No-contact delivery
Address:
1035 S Arlington Heights Rd, Arlington Heights, IL 60005
Phone: (847) 264-8197
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Hours
| Sunday | 11:30 AM–3 PM, 5:30–10 PM |
| Monday
(Labor Day)
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11:30 AM–3 PM
Holiday hours
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| Tuesday | Closed |
| Wednesday | 11:30 AM–2:30 PM, 5–9:30 PM |
| Thursday | 11:30 AM–2:30 PM, 5–9:30 PM |
| Friday | 11:30 AM–2:30 PM, 5:30–10 PM |
| Saturday | 11:30 AM–3 PM, 5:30–10 PM |
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Reviews
Naseer Ahmed
With one waitress/usher/cleaner and a couple of cooks/waiters/cleaner, Madurai Kitchen is able to cater to a full house of guests on a busy Father’s Day weekend. There are about 10 – 12 tables of different seating arrangements. The atmosphere is simple with a couple of Madurai temples, gopurams, etc. Be prepared for long wait and missed orders, frustration, desperation, and other typical issues with understaffed, overworked employees. We entered the restaurant at 11:30 am when they opened and we had not exited the restaurant until well after 1:30 pm.
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Sathish Rajan
One of the best interiors I have seen in any Indian restaurants recently, well decorated and maintained place. We had weekdays thali (mutton curry on the side), goat dum biryani and chicken chukka. My first experience having a full course meal in USA, it was excellent, chick chukka tasted authentic south indian, goat dum biryani was decent. Nannari and rose milk were good. Service was excellent, overall a good place for south indian food.
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Shubha Chakravarthy
We were very pleasantly surprised by this new restaurant. It’s hard to get authentic South Indian cuisine right. These guys have nailed it. The decor really adds to the feeling that you’ve been transported to Madurai for a down-home dining experience. I’m considering not telling others because we want to have this little treasure all to ourselves . This is going on our regular favorite list.
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Eric Kurbat
The food here is really tasty. You can select 3 levels of spice: mild, medium, and spicy. If you don’t love things super spicy, order the mild. Even then, expect some heat.
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Sooraj Kumar
This is my first time here and the food was great. We came for the Dosa night on Thursday. It’s currently at 19$ and featured a mini buffet with 2 starters, 2 tiffins, 1 veg rice, sambar/3 chutneys, dessert, and masala chai. Food was great and the whole group loved it. Service and atmosphere was good. The space alloted was a bit congested for a group of 7. It looked pretty busy especially to the closing time and there was slight delay in getting the buffet refills. Dosas were quick. Although some were easily identifiable, it was difficult to keep track of what dosa is what. Keeping a side the minor issues, the food was great and the overall experience was good. I would add this family restaurant as a must-try in the area.
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Joshita Arora Dhawan
Authentic south Indian food. We love the dosas and even tried the dosa night. Must try mysore masala dosa and ghee podi dosa. Buttermilk is really good but super hot ️ ️ ️. Idli and vadas are must must try.
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Akanksha Mehrotra
When we visited this place on July 15, 2023, it was jam packed because of a birthday celebration. A few minutes of waiting and we got our table. The food was lip smacking despite the staff bring super busy catering to the private party. Each and everything we ordered was delicious. Fresh vada, crispy dosa, yumm Guntur chicken, fresh garlic nan, each food item was the epitome of freshness and flavours although it was 9 pm. I would definitely recommend this place for its food.
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Pallav Kannaiyan
We ordered Chicken sukka, Thalapakattu chicken Briyani , Paneer fry and chicken 65.
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Mac M
Dosa was good but MK chicken dosa was not edible and had to return and the restaurant didn’t void it and was $16 , also the Thali was very bland and comes with 1 small chapati not enough and then you have to order everything extra ! Paid 75$ for 3 people’s food and was not worth it
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Jagan Elango
We had dinner at Madurai Kitchen on a weekend. Service was good overall except for the fact that kids food was served only after all adults have completed the dinner which was very disappointing and unacceptable. We enquired a couple of times about that kids food “parota” and we were told 5 mins but only got delivered to table after 40 mins.
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