Komala Vilas Restaurant

Komala Vilas is a super popular Vegetarian Indian restaurant in Singapore's Little India. I came here with two Indian colleagues and trusted them to do all the ordering. The food is Southern Indian, so expect lots of variations of bread, curries, chickpeas and other dips. Despite the restaurants large size, there was a line of folks waiting to get in after we left.

* For me, I enjoyed the Andhra Thali Plate with the huge variety of dishes. No way a single person can finish this monster platter. My favorited were the Rasam (Tangy Tamarind, mildly spicy soup), Coconut Curry, and Eggplant. There was some powdery, spicy dry curry that packed some serious heat. I had to use the yogurt dip and rice pudding as neutralizers.

* Beverages were great - mango lassi was thick and sweet, while filtered coffee was bold and smooth and good end to the meal.

* The one toilet on the second floor was somewhat ok in terms of cleanliness, but had way too much water in the floor.

* Service was friendly but inattentive at times. Instead of napkins, they give paper towels from the sink. Most of the tine, its self service.

With half of the Thali plate and a sampling of breads of various shapes, textures, dips and fillings you will get very full from this Vegetarian meal. After all, "Man cannot live on bread alone."

We got off at Little India during the Big Bus tour and we were hungry, wile at the Indian temple I asked a few locals and they pointed me here. There was a line out the door and then I found out that this was Singapore's original Dosa place and all the locals have been coming here for years. Originally all
They sold was Dosa but now they serve many other South Indian veg dishes.
Yeah the food was good, the service was satisfactory and the ambience feels like I'm in India. Mango lassi was excellent

We enjoyed the friendly service and food here. We ate tomato uttapam, masala dosa and plain dosa. Also, palak paneer. Palak paneer was too good. The paneer was just like you get in my mom's kitchen.
The lady taking the order is quick to write down orders. She didn't realize we ordered dosa thali and not dosa plain so one order was wrong.

Came here because it was 4 stars on Yelp. Had the Masala Dosai (mashed potato crape) and Mango Lassi (Mango yogurt drink). Tasty and inexpensive. Staff was nice enough to recommend them as something a non-Indian person would like or is safe. Everyone was eating with their hands but they gave me a Fork and spoon. Don't sit too long. It's a place where you eat and leave. Tables next to me kept turning over.

Delicious all vegetarian food. We stopped in for breakfast when only a limited menu is available but it was amazing.

We had paratha korma and an onion masala pancake type of thing. The korma sauce was amazing and the paratha was buttery and crispy. The onion pancake was amazingly flavorful and came with a tasty curried potato hash in the middle and sauces on the side. The veggie soup it came with was fine but the sauces were all very intricate and nuanced. I ordered a masala tea to go and it tasted just like what you'd get from a street vendor in Mumbai.

Prices were very affordable and the ambiance was great.

Was craving dosa and only about a 30 minutes walk from the hotel. Not many places open early in the morning in Little India.

Ordered the pongal, upma, Mysore dosa, uttipam, and mango shake (they didn't have any lassis in the morning.

Very delicious and made to order. Was the only Caucasian within miles and loved it! :-)

For sure will be back when in the Singaporean Little India area.

I asked an Indian friend of mine for a recommendation where to eat in Little India. She told me to go to Komala. And so I did. I felt a little foreign but the staff helped me to the best available to understand the many menu items.

Don't ask me the three items I ordered. All I know is that one was mushroom but they were really good and I enjoyed the many different flavors.

Komala Vilas is a nice Indian vegetarian restaurant in Little India that satisfied our hunger around lunch time.

Space can be a little cramped since it was busy and we ended up scaring our table with another patron.

The food was delicious. I'm normally a guy who needs meat in his meals, but the wife was craving vegetarian. I ordered garlic naan with mushroom mutton and she got the onion uttapam with three sides.

The garlic naan has visible bits of garlic covering it, but surprisingly not overpowering with flavor. I wouldn't have minded a stronger punch of garlic, but I do love garlic. The mushroom mutton was also very tasty and not overpowering as far as flavors go. I probably could have ordered another set of naan bread to finish the mutton with.

The uttapam was a pancake-like food which we ordered the onion version of. It's like much thicker dosai with a topping of your choice. The sides were really good and my wife especially liked the curry one. I personally liked the spicy one. The white one reminded me of a cole slaw.

We finished the meal with a mango lassi which was refreshing. Not overpowering with the yogurt flavor which I appreciated.

You can tell a lot of locals cane here to eat which was a great sign. Thankfully they also had a sink with soap to wash your hands since the meals are eaten by hand.

Overall really good experience and we would come back again

I looked up restaurants in Little India on yelp and wasn't disappointed.

It's completely vegetarian, so I was a bit surprised that there are no chicken or lamb dishes on the menu. I ordered the vegetable "meatballs" in a masala sauce. Very tasty! Had it with garlic naan and a mango lassi.

My husband had the Chappati meal which consists of different kinds of curries and sauces. Each one was nice, but not noteworthy.

We enjoyed our meal, but could have used something a bit more substantial. I love plant based foods, but it's nice to have meat curries as an option too. For me personally, I enjoyed my meal, but just wasn't in love with it.

A entire restaurant full of vegetarian options is usually an easy win for me, and this place definitely delivered. The food was really good, and the staff here were really friendly. The prices are very affordable, and the portions are large. The food does look deceptively small on the menu photos, so I ended up ordered way more food than I needed, but was very happy I got to try a little bit of everything.