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| - I've wanted to review this place for a while, but I kept holding off because my experiences have varied so widely that I was never quite sure where I stood. When I've eaten in I've found the food to be quite good and fresh tasting, although the service was slow. (The last time I went we waited 45 minutes for our dinner.) However, I've had take-out now a few times, and each time the food has gotten worse. The onion bhajis are delicious in-house, but when we order for pick-up, they're extremely dry and old tasting. It has honestly left me wondering if they serve different food for take-out. Day-old bhajis? I can only speculate on the reason, but the last batch I ordered was so terrible I ended up throwing half of them out.
Now the other dishes were tasty enough that I was still planning on returning to Rasoi (while refraining from ordering any more bhajis) when I found a piece of meat in the vegetarian dish I was eating. While this might not sound like a huge deal, to me it's indicative of a bigger problem. Does Rasoi claim to serve vegetarian/vegan meals while cooking them on unwashed equipment where they also cook meat? Is the restaurant so sloppy that someone else's food ended up in mine? I can deal with a lot of restaurant shortcomings, including slow service and a couple of mediocre dishes, but cross-contamination (due to presumably unwashed cookware) points to a lack of respect for the customer, and that's the last straw for me. Unfortunately, Rasoi has lost a couple of regular customers, and if you have any dietary restrictions or allergies or are concerned about knowing what's in your food, I would also encourage you to think twice about eating here.
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