I was beyond disappointed with this restaurant. We were having a party, so decided to go and see what this place had for sale. The advertising ploy this restaurant uses is ingenious, but dishonest. When we went in, the place had just opened. The chef came out, we spoke to him. He was very personable, and even offered us tastings of the food. We tried the chicken vindaloo, and the chicken biriyani (he provided this tasting for free, and I was impressed). We also bought kebabs to try from the open window. The vindaloo had a rich gravy and really nice, tender chicken. The biriyani had the same tender chicken, fragrant long grain rice, and was incredibly flavourful, but not spicy. We were impressed so we placed the order for 5 plates of chicken vindaloo, 1 dozen kebabs with coriander mint chutney, and 15 plates of biriyani with raita, and one plate of their dal. Along with a desert from their packaged, grocery section, it all came to $200. This is quite a bit, but for good food, it seemed worth it... if only we'd received this.
I picked up the food twice in the day (first lunch, then dinner). The vindaloo and the kebabs were for lunch. The kebabs were good. That's all that was good about this whole meal. There was no chutney. The vindaloo came with rice, however, it was a far cry from anything we'd tasted. it was a watery, thin gravy, that was nowhere near enough. The chicken was overcooked, but bland, and not salted. We called in, and were met with the incredibly rude chef on the phone who basically went, this is how I make it, if you don't want it, don't order it. Of course, we'd already ordered the biriyani and had nothing else planned for the evening. In the evening, I picked up the biriyani, and explained again how disappointing lunch was. His defence was "Are you Goan? I'm Goan, this is what vindaloo is." Now, this is what Goan chicken vindaloo may be, but this was NOT what we tasted! Dinner, if it was possible, was even sadder. Nobody wanted to touch the biriyani, and from what it looked like, it was boiled rice and chicken. I planned to fix it, by adding my own spices. However, when I went to do this, I noticed a distinct spoiled odour. Nobody could eat the biriyani, and nobody answered the call when we phoned. It was quite disgusting.
I will never again order food from this place. No matter how good your wings are, if this is the standard, I'm skeptical of ANYTHING coming out of your kitchen. Mediocre if not spoiled food, and a rude chef to boot... money wasted is an understatement. read more