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| - My friends and I had been frequenters of the former Maharaja for years. Found out it changed hands and became Tandoori House so we went over Friday afternoon to give the lunch buffet a try. Arrived around 1, the place was pretty empty. Think there was only 1 other table seated the entire time we were there. And once we tried the food itself, we knew why.
The selection was pretty standard to what you'd expect at one of these buffets. I of course got some tikka masala, my go to, and tried the lamb curry, and a few other things I cannot recall the name of. I took my first bite of the tikka, and spit it out. It was like taking a shot of salt. Everyone else did the same. It was inedible. At least 3 of the other dishes were just the same, the only flavor was salt. Overpowering loads of salt. And on top of that, they had the heater on the buffet set really low or even off, if they food had been any cooler I wouldn't have even tried it, for sanitary reasons. One of the managers stopped by to ask how the food was at one point, and I was honest with him. He did offer to have a batch of "low sodium" tikka misala made up, which came out piping hot. And while it certainly wasn't the salt bomb that the stuff on the buffet was, it was completely bland.
It seems a strange turn around from the "wasn't salty enough" comment here from 2 months ago. And I know the business is still new, but you'd think they'd have the recipes in tip top shape after 2-3 months.
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