Food wasn't terrible, the ambiance was OK yet I'm oddly pissed after eating dinner this evening at Copper.
Pros - Hmm...well my meal was serviceable. Nothing to rave about. But it was tasty. I got the chicken tikka. As did one of my dinning companions. Our other girlfriend got the lamb. Her review was similar. Not bad, but not raving from the rooftops at how good it was. I also give them props for automatically splitting the apps. That's nice, can you tell I'm digging for positives.
The Cons - There's more of them and they are more concrete.
1. The service. The hostess was very little help when I came in asking for my party. She seemed clueless. Now in fairness I guess she didn't seat them, but you'd think she'd know who was where based on the fact that it wasn't busy and it's not a huge place. Our waiter - he was meh, and very slow. I honestly can't tell you if they offer free refills as I was never offered a top off or refill of my diet coke! It took forever to take our orders. Also he was very little help when asked about the menu. I'm sure he was knowledgeable, but he didn't appear to give a eff quite honestly.
2. The portion size. For the price I expect a lot more. For a table of three we were given one plate of rice to share. Now all of our meals were swimming in broth. Oh hell no, you need to keep that slightly crisp (was is supposed to be that way?) rice coming.
3. One dining mate got a side of vegetables - which turns out was $7 bucks. I repeat $7 bucks.
4. Yes Charlotte is in the midst of a record heat wave, but no excuse for being so damn hot. Copper turn the A/C on high!
Overall I won't be back and I don't get why people rave about this place. I think there's better Indian that doesn't stink of 'try too hard' in Charlotte.