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| - Concept - Check. Ambiance - Check. Food Presentation - Check. Service - Mediocre. Price - Pricey. But it's the Food that needs a lot of work. Here's the problem. If you never had good Indian food, this is probably the best place out there that gives a new/western take on street food from Bombay, India. But if you are somewhat familiar with the food you will feel a big let down. There is a difference between the food being spicy and the food having a bit of heat. Spicy = spices, various kinds of them, accentuating the food. Masala is a blend of spices with various ratios of the spices depending on the food it's added to. And in the case of Indian food, it's main identity. Heat = Red Hot Chilies. What the food lacks here is the flavor. I feel with the intention of reducing the heat in the food to cater to a non-Indian audience, the spice component, the flavor, is hugely compromised. When everything checks and the food is presented really well and your expectations rise immensely, you suddenly feel uneasy when the flavor doesn't live up. This definitely needs to be fixed. My friends and I wanted to give them a chance so we tried a variety of items during our visit. Eggplant Bhaaji Pav, Anda Bhurji with Kheema, Beef Kheema, Gun Powder Fries (lacked seasoning big time), Firni (rice and yougurt desert which was one of my least fav items during the visit) and the Adrack Chai but were quite let down when the flavors didn't match up to what they were supposed to be. The only winners were the Pani Puri and the Cake which we all enjoyed. So advice to management is to NOT don't compromise the flavor or else you guys have done a pretty incredible job with everything else! The prices are on the high side, but the beverages are priced rather unreasonably high. Last but not least is the service. They are friendly but they have no idea about the food, completely alien to it, so it makes it difficult to get any perspective from the hosts/servers. I think if these things (especially the flavor on the food is fixed) this would hit the charts!
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