Someone save this restaurant and put it out of it's misery, please!…read moreSummary: Bland, dry, and cold... lol kind staff though, at least.
~Lunch Buffet~
Full "red" chicken legs. Meat was actually VERY tender, not dry at all! It would have been perfect had it not been... COLD!?
Their batter fried coliflower would have also been perfect, had it not been... COLD?! Yes.. both of these dishes were fkn cold lol I know they opened for lunch at 11 am, we got there at 12. I guess the food was sitting there for an hour... such a shame.
At least their sauces were hot, I tried all of them, but they were all very very very bland! I tried adding salt to try to enhance their flavors, but then all I tasted was salt, eventhough I didn't put much... which to me it means there wasn't much seasoning to begin with, so sad. The sauces also ALL had a thick built up layer ontop of them, that was very obvious when I went to grab a spoon full lol that was not a good sight... And the meat in all the sauces were DRY. Very sad.
There was one sauce dish that actually wasn't bland. It's chicken meat chunks were still all very dry, but at least the sauce had a taste... a familiar taste actually... too familiar... Tasted exactly like costco's Thai Sweet Chili Sauce... which isn't indian at all! It was the only spicy dish from their selection, but there was so much sugar in it, that you barely notice it's spicy. so sad, but out of everything, it was the only sauce I prefferred, sadly.
They had a tray of three additional dipping sauces, 2 white and one dark brown. the white were ok, but the brown seemed like straight up HP sauce, and I was baffled as to why it was there, but makes sense since they use alot of sweet thai chili sauce in one of their chicken dishes mentioned earlier... lol
They had 2 diff rices. 1 a plain white rice, which I found was made well. 1 seasoned rice, which looked like basmatti rice, yet... fkn bland as all hell, no flavor and no point in being there...
I didn't try their salads, since it was just cut up uncooked veggies, but none of them looked rotten or anything, so they at least got that right.
Their chickpea salad was overly vinegary.
Their potato salad, I didn't try, but others at my table who did, didn't enjoy it.
There was one dish I tried off the plate of someone else at my table. They said it was too bitter, and they couldn't eat it, so I gave it a shot. Looked like just a bunch of cooked chopped veggies. I took a small spoonful bite, and was overwhelmed by it's bitterness lol Hey... at least it wasn't bland lol There was some sort of small seeds in it, and when i bit into one, the bitterness became even more overwhelming... I don't believe anyone eats that dish as is, there's no way lol It just wasn't made right, a mistake in there somewhere.. and the cooks are clearly not tasting anything they make, they're just sending it out like an automation. So sad.
For desert, I tried one of their sweet donut balls. This was... dam, like I have a sweet tooth, I love sweets, but this was too much lol The syrop pool it was sitting in completely penerated the outer layer of dough, and overwhelmingly saturated the ball. Biting into it was really not enjoyable. They should have just baked each ball in the oven, doesn't matter if the bottom was flattened, and just leave the syrop there on the side for customers to drizzle ontop. That would have been excellent. Too bad.
The staff, eventhough they speak very politely to us, they were very lazy in the beginning. It was my mom's birthday, and she kept on taking out empty plates and putting them in the basket up front because she didn't want to sit down with a bunch of dirty plates at the table. They didn't come to do it... the staff was just sitting at front talking to eachother.. and there weren't even that many customers, place was empty. I was happy when they finally gave us more water, and then kept on refilling our bottles like normal, because in the beginning they were really neglecting that, so i was leaving our bottles at the edge of the table so they could clearly see them, since they weren't staying at reach to see if we needed anything. Took them awhile, but they got around to it at the end.
This place has very high ceilings, and large windows to bring in alot of sunlight. Personally, I liked the fact that they kept the lights off and just used natural sunlight. Would have been nicer if they used reflective decor to really bring in more sunlight, and make that a special feature, so it doesn't look like they're just being cheap on electricity XD
They never came to our table for the check.. I had to go upto the front desk to pay, I didn't like that one bit. The guy politely asked me how was the food. I admitted to him that it was bland, and we laughed together, because he KNEW what I was talking about... Which makes it even more sad, because he knows there's a problem with the quality of the food, but doesn't do anything about it. Hope my 10$ tip helps them...