Its a new place and we went to check it out. The ambience was really good but the food was exactly opposite to that...In one word it was "horrible" and the presentation was even "worse". We ordered lamb and chicken biryani. It seems that it was more of boiled rice mixed with turmeric and cooked meat. The appetizers were also not well cooked. The lollipop chicken was so small in size that I felt sorry for the actual weak chicken. There was some $16 chicken dish with 5-6 different styled chicken dishes. I felt one of the chicken pieces tasted funny...oohhh... The food was totally bland and tasteless...worst indian food I have had in my 6 years of Champaign life. The only good thing I would say was the mango lassi and the gulab jamun. Although I am not sure if the gulab jamun was made in their kitchen or was from a tin can.
The owner of this place used to work in Bombay India on Green St and the food there was good or atleast the biryani there was pretty good. His current place Sitara's food is no where compared to the Bombay's food. It is surprising. With this kind of food, I am not so sure this restaurant will survive. Probably change the cook. I am never going there again and would not recommend it to any of my friends.