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| - The signs were there but we ignored them. Bad move. Looking for somewhere new to try, this was our fourth stop for lunch.
Our first stop was a Jamiacan restaurant that we heard about because of their barrel-cooked jerk chicken. They had no jerk. Of any kind. Not today. How can a Jamaican restaurant not have jerk???
The second stop was a Guyanese restaurant that didn't open until 2pm. What? If you're not open for lunch, why bother opening at 2pm? The third stop, an Indian restaurant across the street wasn't open today. Hmmm...
With Indian food on our minds now, our handy Yelp app brought us to Anjappar Chettinad, a South Indian restaurant with a lunch buffet. We were hungry so this was it!
We were seated in a large spacious dining area and the buffet was set up in another room where the dining tables weren't being used. The buffet selection was very limited, with two types of chicken and a fish dish as the main proteins. There was plain rice, biryani rice, a few vegetarian dishes that I wasn't familiar with, fresh fruits, ice cream, and a couple of Indian desserts. No butter chicken, channa masala, or mutton?
The biryani rice, mushrooms, and tandoori chicken were good. The rest was just okay, passable, not memorable. I would have preferred at least one other meat dish and maybe a couple more veggie (chick peas) dishes.
The service was below par. There was hardly any dialog with our server and we had to ask for everything - napkins, beverages, bill, etc. I'm used to Indian buffets that offer a lot more selection for less money. At $14.99, this was not a good value, and not an experience worth repeating.
PS - Although a bit frustrating, the earlier experience at the first three stops did not affect the review of this restaurant.
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