Sitaaray

Very disappointing experience (even though the food was good)!

Our waitress could not have been less welcoming. We ordered from the £22.95 'all you can eat' menu with a 30% discount clearly stated on their website (so should have been £16.07 each but more on that later). When the first modest serving eventually arrived the food was actually very tasty, light, well seasoned, (maybe lacking in spice for the purists) but overall very good. However, this is where the positives end.

We waited an age in between each serving, with each plate getting smaller. It is clear this is how the Sitaaray hope to maximise profit by serving their 'all you can eat' menu incredibly slowly and with meagre portions (and no, I am not an overweight gannet)! Having received a handful of tiny servings I was determined not to leave the restaurant feeling hungry so after waiting at least half an hour for a final serving I went and found our waitress who grudgingly agreed to bring another dish to our table. 10 minutes later a plate with two uncooked fish fillets was thrown in front of us. This was the final straw, or so we thought, as having asked for the bill we were presented with a grossly inflated figure. Now I don't mind paying £6.50 for a beer (a rip-off but the price was clearly stated) or even 12.5% service charge when in fact our waitress should have paid us compensation for having to suffer her but I draw the line at being overcharged to the tune of £30 for the four set menues we had ordered. When questioned the waitress first tried to deny the offer , then when proof was shown (thank you iphone) from their own website she mumbled something about having to take up complaints with the chef! To my eternal shame we settled at a compromise between the initial bill and the correct amount (why didn't I just refuse to pay a penny more than the correct amount, even inc the joke of a service charge? I think the overwhelming urge to get out of the SItaaray was too much). So in short, tasty food, miserable, slow service and an attempted rip-off at the end. DO NOT GO TO THE SITAARAY!
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3 Overall rating
Food 8 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 2 | Value for money 2
Thursday, November 25, 2010

I'm not sure which restaurant the diners on this website dined at (other than the last reviewer) because this place is simply awful!

My partner & I wanted to go for a romantic meal and decided on a curry. We found this place via Vouchercloud and wish we hadn't!

On arrival we were greeted by a gormless waitress and told "you can only have this menu" which involved very little curry and lots of cheap meat that I would think twice about feeding to my dog! The waitress failed to grasp the concept of half a lager and lime and the fact that we wanted one veg meal and one meaty meal. What we got was a complete mish mash - vegetarians beware!

Once we finally made it past the cheap patties (having returned three chicken dishes for not being cooked properly) and made it to the curry courses we could not have been more diappointed. What we got tasted like baby food and was utterly vile and neither of us could eat it.

The only redeeming feature of this place was the Nepalese waiter.

Even with a 25% discount this meal for two cost £50. My father always said "you don't have to eat it, you only have to pay for it" never a truer word said in this case!

This is by far the worst restaurant I have ever had the misfortune to dine in and the night was only redeemed by the fact that my partner and I managed to keep a sense of humour about it all!
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Sarah Wisbey
1 Overall rating
Food 1 | Service 2 | Atmosphere 2 | Value for money 0
Wednesday, November 17, 2010

A restaurant for those who mistake quantity for quality. Yes they deliver large platters of generally low quality meat and fish and they are coupled with cheap and nasty dipping sauces. The curries are fairly insipid and there was only one dish that I can remember fondly. Certainly does not live up to it's billing but I do understand that it is a non demanding venue for parties of 6 or more. I for one shall not be returning.
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BC
5 Overall rating
Food 4 | Service 5 | Atmosphere 6 | Value for money 4
Tuesday, October 19, 2010