The Curry Culture

I truly don't know where to start with this review.. After reading the positive reviews and inspecting the menu I had reasonably high expectations. (I will also mention that I am of mixed Indian and Pakistani heritage, and it is not much of an exaggeration to say I was raised on Indian food!) when my wife and I entered two hours prior to closing we were served quickly enough, and I ordered the tandoori mixed grill with two garlic naan bread. I have done a considerable amount of travel and I ALWAYS make a point to seek out Indian food in each country I travel to, my personal experience of Indian restaurants is that the mixed grill option gives a broad overview of the flavours of their tandoori options, having not eaten any of their exclusively curry dishes I cannot speak for the quality of them. However I was disappointed by a number of factors over the course of my meal. Firstly when the food was served on a sizzling platter I was expecting to be assailed by the scent of still-cooking meat. each meat dish lacked flavour, the seekh kebabs were bland, the chicken tikka was passable but all of the meat tasted as if it had been marinated for a matter of seconds. The prawn stuffed with crab meat had much more lingering flavour but I mostly tasted the heat from chilli rather than the subtle undertones and spices I would expect. When the waiter came over to collect our dishes he didn't say a word and didn't ask how our meal! Considering this restaurant is attached to a luxury hotel I expected far better service, while waiting for our bill, my wife watched the supervisor literally pour water from the tap into a cocktail of a couple a few tables over from us, I understand this thing is often done in the hospitality industry, but if you're going to do it, it really should be out of sight of patrons. If I had to visit here again (and I would hesitate) I would not order anything from the tandoori and grill section and hope that these positive review can only be referring to their curry dishes!

The only reason why I am going with two stars is the waiters at this restaurant who don’t actually mind their own business.Because of their waiters;this restaurant is my last resort to go when I can’t find jain food anywhere else in little India. They forgot to serve me water which is indeed their work to do because they were busy asking me hundreds of questions about my personal life which is not their job. In my next visit I very politely told them that I have to think before coming here because of the questioning and the waiter told me we will not do so again and still in my very next visit he asked me a question while I was leaving the restaurant.