Benares Indian Restaurant

Yummy yummy food! I'd heard a lot about this place and glad that we found time to squeeze this visit in. Reserved a table since it was Sunday but it wasn't needed as they had quite a few open tables. We were seated immediately and the order was taken super quickly. I primarily went there for the Benares Kachori and Kolhapuri Misal. The Misal was fabulous and the bread was super tasty. The Kachori was thin but yum. We got the prix fixe vegetarian platter. All the curries were flavorful and on point. Knocking off a star for the lack of ambience in terms of bad music choice and extremely loud cutlery noise while clearing tables and around the kitchen. They had a wonderful percussion artist while we were there but couldn't hear a thing as there was blaring music in the background. If you're someone who doesn't mind music choices, go here and taste that Misal Pav!!

We ordered dahi kebab which were nothing like dahi kebab but frozen cheese nuggets given to us and tasted disgusting We ordered paneer tikka masala and ended up returning it as they gave us the wrong dish, which again tasted disgusting 🤮 the dal makhani was so salty and nowhere near to what actual makhani is. A lot of people have given this restaurant a 4+ rating, but if i had an option if have given a negative. They are nowhere near Indian restaurant standards.

Nice Indian Food Option in Manhattan Downtown. Manager was very friendly and assisted in reservation and setting up our team. This is one of our surprise dinner event for our manager, it turned out to be great location and food. Nice options for Veg and Non-Veg folks, definitely will recommend this hotel for the folks in the area.

Made reservations for Friday at 7pm. When we arrived they didn’t even check if we had reservations. The place was maybe half full. Around 8 it was packed. The food is very good and the portions are huge. I ended up taking home half of my entree. I think I would definitely go back here. The reason I’m not giving 4 or 5 stars is because service was incredibly slow. We had to wait about 15 minutes for anyone to take our drink order and after the food came out we didn’t get a water refill for probably an hour. We also had to chase someone down to bring us a check. I suppose there are worse things, at least we were not at all rushed to leave and could enjoy our meal. I noticed that many other tables had extremely long waits for drinks and appetizers so I was glad we got there “early” and that our food came out pretty quickly once we ordered. Perhaps this is solely related to being understaffed which I understand. The phone was also ringing off the hook and there were a ton of delivery orders being prepared so that also probably affected the service for diners. It didn’t ruin my experience. Food was really really good. I will definitely be back!