点评:First things first - the food here is next level good. Not your run of the mill curry house - each dish is beautifully cooked and seasoned/spiced and delicious. The problem is the service - for a small restaurant it seems they are understaffed for how popular it is. We arrived for our booking at 8pm and the place was 80% full with only 1 waitress. It took 30 minutes and a few times of us trying to get her attention for her to take our drink order, which is pretty poor. We ordered a plate of poppadoms and pickles with our drinks, which took another 25 minutes to arrive, so almost an hour before we got our starters.
The mains didn't arrive until almost 10pm, by which time we were famished and pretty pissed off. As I say, the food was amazing when it did arrive, but the whole experience had been spoiled by how long it took. The restaurant gets pretty noisy when full and difficult to have a conversation without shouting at each other, so we just sat there for 2 hours waiting for food - terrible. No apology or offer of discount or even a free drink or anything (in fact when the bill came they'd included items that hadn't arrived so we had to ask for a new bill).
I think the problem is it is only a small kitchen and they seem to prioritise take-away (there was no shortage of delivery drivers in and out). Also to keep costs down they only employ 1 or 2 waiting staff, which isn't enough, especially on busy weekends. A victim of their own success perhaps, which is a shame as I wouldn't want to dine here again unless they sort this out.
翻译:首先,这里的食物绝对是顶级美味。它可不是那种普通的咖喱店,每道菜都烹制得精美绝伦,调味/香料也恰到好处,美味可口。问题在于服务——对于一家小餐馆来说,似乎人手不足,却又如此受欢迎。我们晚上8点按预约时间到达,餐厅里只有一位女服务员,却已经坐满了80%。我们花了30分钟,还好几次试图引起她的注意,她才来点我们的饮料,这实在是太糟糕了。我们点了一盘印度薄脆饼和泡菜,配上饮料,又等了25分钟才上来,所以几乎等了一个小时,我们才拿到开胃菜。
主菜直到晚上10点才上来,那时我们已经饥肠辘辘,非常生气。正如我所说,食物上桌时确实很棒,但上菜时间太长,破坏了整个用餐体验。餐厅客满的时候会很吵,如果不互相大声叫喊就很难交谈,所以我们就在那里等了两个小时才上菜——太糟糕了。没有道歉,没有折扣,甚至连免费饮料什么的都没有(事实上,结账时他们把还没到的菜品也算进去了,所以我们不得不要求重新结账)。
我觉得问题在于厨房太小,而且他们似乎更注重外卖(送货司机进进出出)。此外,为了降低成本,他们只雇佣一两名服务员,这根本不够,尤其是在人多的周末。或许这是他们自身成功的牺牲品,这很遗憾,因为除非他们解决这个问题,否则我以后都不想再来这里用餐了。