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| - I'm Indian but i don't like at home and nor do i cook Indian so i was really craving Indian food. Since my partner in crime and myself were headed to Unionville Street Festival, we decided to check out Ambiyan based on good yelp reviews. After walking around for a few hours, we were exhausted and hungry, which in turn makes me hangry.
We were greeted by the hostess and she was amazing at catering towards our needs as we requested to be seated by a tv so we can catch the end of game 2 of the Stanley Cup Finals.
Downhill after that... We both ordered from the prefix menu as we felt this was a better buy. For apps we had Chicken Pakora and Chicken Samosa. The shell on the samosa was too hard & Pakora was too bland for a indian joint. My girlfriend thought she was eating chicken fingers, wow.
For the main we had the Chicken Korma and Lamb with Garlic Naan. After the apps it took almost 30 mins for the food to come out, mind you this is closing time and they are not busy. While waiting on our food we even witnessed two staff members in a disagreement (real professional). When the food finally came, it would've been nice to have heard a "sorry for the wait" or something to acknowledge our long wait but noting. At this point i have already decided I'm never coming back to this restaurant plus i have a really bad expectation for the main that is about to get man handled because i hangry :) To my surprise, the food was actually really good and flavourful and thats why i still gave them one star. Everything else was disappointing and never will i go back.
When the bill the waiter mentioned "you guys came on our busiest day of the year", my reply " i guess thats why the service was so slow". After that you'd expect anything except am awkward silence... now i think back at it and it was pretty funny. They also had an extra charge on the bill because instead of the regular Naan i opted for the Garlic Naan. I did make that request so i have no problem paying it, just wish it was communicated to me at time of ordering instead of them being slick and adding it onto my bill without explanation. Again i have no problem with the charge, my problem is with the principal behind it. There is actually noting wrong with saying "theres an extra charge associated with substituting that", instead of trying to be slick and me feel like you're shoving extra charges down my throat....Fraud :(
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