Turmeric - Fishponds.
Went there on Saturday night and made an order just enough for 2 people.
First Impressions were rather bad, they have crammed as many tiny tables and chairs into the venue as possible. Two ladies were even placed on a table underneath the bar, with the bar shelf clearly close enough for them to rest their heads on.
To order take away you have to walk past all these tables to a tiny bar at the back, where the waiters continued to serve the tables and ignore you. There was only one seat to sit on whilst waiting for your order, conveniently placed next to the toilet. Makes you think that if they didn't cram so many tables in, they could have put a sofa in, or even more than one chair.
Menu was good, and reasonable priced for a new restaurant/take away.
Placed an order at 8:15pm, and paid for it there and then so the time was printed on the receipt. Told it would take 20 minutes maximum. Got to 9:10pm and I was annoyed that I had already paid as if I hadn't I would have left and gone up the road to get Chinese a long time before this.
In the meantime whilst waiting for my order, as there were so many of us crammed into this tiny space I got placed onto a table. I sat here with my friend waiting for our food, only to overhear the two ladies crammed on to the table under the bar moaning that they placed an order for their food over and hour and a half ago, and that it still had not come, bearing in mind i noticed that they had finished their starters when i came in. The ladies did seem to be quite annoyed at this point too.
Watching the staff working there was by far the most interesting part of the night, they had more than 3 working in the kitchen, leaving one poor guy to serve at least 6 tables; with another guy behind the bar, which was covered in empty glasses. Another point i noted was that they had clearly gone to the effort to put flowers on every table, yet most of them were dead. So whilst waiting for my food, I decided to pick the dead heads off of the flowers on my flowers.
This must have been noticed by one of the members of staff as by the time my order had come, about 5 minutes before this they tried to give me the wrong order and make me pay for it, I was escorted to the door and given my order. He did however not do this with anyone else, and read the order out to them, gave it to them and let them leave on their own accord. Which in all honestly made my mind up; even if the food was nice, I will not be going back there.
In all honesty the food was nice, but the service before hand had really put me off them.
I think in the future I will stay faithful to the other Indian that I go to, which is the Raj Mahal. I think the waiters at Turmeric could learn a few pointers from them. read more