I'm only giving Chaihana 2 stars because I feel bad for all the hard work the chefs have put in. Other than that, the restaurant and service were awful.
When my friends and I first walked in, the restaurant looked nothing like the pictures online. We waited 10 minutes for the host until we decided to seat ourselves upstairs. There was nobody to welcome us, or to seat us and let us know about the restaurant and Tajik and Uzbek cuisine.
The waiter was especially lazy and completely disorganized. Not only did he get our orders wrong, but we had to constantly flag him down for cutlery, or water, and new orders. A simple dinner turned into a stressful ordeal... and it was impossible to enjoy our food because something was always missing. He didn't even bother clearing our plates or taking away our menus. He could have cared less that we were eating at the restaurant.
Overall if you're going to get food here, order out if you must. They were missing a lot of items from their menu, even the pilaf which is what I had originally come for.
At the end, my friends and I were left disappointed and annoyed. Honestly such a bad experience.