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| - Came in on a cold night with a soup craving, and Ravi didn't disappoint.
Ambience: I'd recommend staying in the front half of the restaurant. Although the back half is where the majority of the seating is, the walls are flaking paint, there's absolutely zero decor on the walls, and you basically feel like you're eating in some small community hall rather than in a relatively pricey soup joint. But it was clean, so kudos for that.
Service: took about 5-10 minutes to get our order with very few patrons there, but not bad. Kinda strange that they flipped our orders with the only other table there, but that was quickly rectified. I'd hate to see though what happens when the place is full!
Soup: tried the apricot/lentil and the chicken curry hotpot. The apricot/lentil was really nice - you could really taste both flavours, as well as a nice blast of cilantro. The chicken curry hotpot was a little more meh - a touch on the spicy side but not in a good way - it just masked the relative blandness underneath - it's tough to make curry uninspired but they did it.. Both soups came with the biscuit with jelly - I could've just eaten a plate of that all night - it was fricking good. Also tried the slaw which was pricey ($5) but a nice refreshing side dish.
Overall - good food, average value. I was bordering on 3 stars here, because of decor, small service snafu, and one of the soups being a bit uninspiring, but then I thought of those biscuits and jelly, and had to go at least 4 stars. I'll be back to try some other soups soon!
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