Pathetic food.

On Friday afternoon (13th September 2024), I visited this restaurant along with 4 friends. Having heard good things about it from colleagues. The starters were acceptable. The pani-puri was good. The sheesh kebaab lacked any flavour profile whatsoever, and the onion bhajia was not even above average.

Regardless, we proceeded to order our main meals. The lamb rogan josh tasted horrible, it was sweet and had unnecessary vegetables in the curry. How can you get a Rogan Josh wrong?

The "Authentic Durban lamb curry", was everything but authentic. There was no potato. The curry itself was bland, and just loaded with chillies.

The chicken breyani was appalling. The potatoes were green and inedible, and the chicken pieces overcooked. The rice itself in the breyani, lacked any flavour whatsoever.

The seafood pot, literally just tasted like a seafood boil, there were no distinct flavors or aromas in the seafood pot.

What kind of service and food is this? To have paid an average of R250 per a curry (WITH NO RICE/ROTI), and then to get lower than mediocre food at such an (advertised) "upmarket" restaurant is astonishing. To call this place an "Indian" restaurant, is farfetched.

Furthermore, at the end of the meal, when requesting finger bowls, so that we can wash our hands, we were told that they don't do such things, and we need to use the bathroom. How is this possible, for an authentic Indian restaurant?

At that point, I called for the manager, who didn't show up for almost 20 minutes, and only decided to waltz out once I got fed up and was leaving the establishment.

Think twice before visiting this place.