Tandoori Nights

Chose to go to Tandoori Nights for my birthday after reading some lovely reviews. Having booked a table for 20, I was looking forward to pleasant night. I was appalled at the treatment my guests and I received. One waiter in particular was so rude to me regarding the amount my sister and I had ordered (apparently, we had ordered too little for his liking, and we were wasting space on a 'busy night' - may I take this opportunity to point out that, had it not been for my booking, there would've been two other occupied tables in the restaurant that night) that I was in tears having been in the restaurant for just half an hour. I pointed out to him that I am at liberty to order whatever I please as I am paying, then asked to be served by someone else. It was an awful start to the evening.

We asked to speak to the manager and were presented with excuse after excuse - 'he'll be here in ten minutes', and 'he's eating at the moment'?! Eventually, we grew sick of waiting, and spoke to another man on the floor who apologised, saying the waiter did not mean it.

To be fair, the food was good. What a shame none of us will ever return to 'Tandoori Nights' due to utterly rude staff. It doesn't take very much effort to be pleasant, but if it is too much to ask of that waiter, then he is clearly in the wrong profession. Had it not been for the 19 friends around me, I would've kicked up a much bigger fuss about the way I had been spoken to as I am not paying to take rubbish from anyone. Unfortunately, I allowed him to ruin my birthday, and nothing was achieved in the end. Hiring some decent staff would actually make this restaurant perfect.

Good food, but rubbish night. Thank goodness there was a great brazilian club nearby to make up the joke we were forced to call 'a nice dinner', as stated on my invites.
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Jan Kumar
3 Overall rating
Food 6 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 2 | Value for money 4
Sunday, April 05, 2009