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| - This restaurant couldn't pay me to give them a good review; the more I think about tonight's experience, the angrier I get.
My boyfriend was craving butter chicken, so we picked this place. It's very close to his place and it had great reviews; also sounded upscale and romantic.
Sure the decor is nicer than a lot of Indian places, but the buffet fails - an array of empty pans or half-full pans with sticky dry food - just disgusting. We were going to order a la carte, but when I compared the menu prices to the Sunday dinner buffet price ($16), the buffet sounded like a better deal. Plus, we were going to order butter chicken anyway, which was a part of the buffet. And from the looks of it, it seemed to me that they were the kind of restaurant to just dump the buffet food on the sit-down dishes.
So, I talked to our server and asked him to refill the buffet pans. He agreed and 20 mins later, some of the pans were filled. We started eating. Choices were slim - chana, 2 veggie dishes, a bad looking paneer dish, raita, butter chicken, tandoori chicken, goat meat, samosa, spring roll and onion pakora. I skipped the vegetarian stuff and the samosa-spring roll deal. Neither looked too good. I helped myself with some goat meat, rice, butter chicken, naan and raita.
Goat meat - fairly good, not warm.
Rice - really good.... but it takes a monkey to fail at rice
Butter Chicken - they refilled by dumping some boiled chicken in the butter chicken gravy. Results? Not good.
Naan - fresh.
Raita - good.
For $16 per person, this buffet really fails. Tandoori Flame offers triple the food for about $4 more. And the quality is a lot better.
It angers me because we spent about $40 for below-average food. And the butter chicken sucked balls.
Never coming back. And here's a tip, go elsewhere if you're looking for good Indian food.
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