My friend and I were greeted by a very friendly front of house staffer and were promptly shown to a table. We were asked when our other friends would arrive and had no problem with us waiting for them. This deserves gold star in my book as many restaurants in Hong Kong nowadays are incredibly picky about how many sit down, at what time and give you a set amount of time to shovel the food as fast as you can into your mouth (and, in case any of you are wondering how long it took for the rest of our group to arrive, within 10 minutes, everyone was there and was ready to eat).
Being a greedy pig, I wanted to order almost all dishes on the menu. This restaurant had a huge range of dishes from different cuisines - there was something for everyone. We were also served a complimentary basket of papads and chutney to munch on whilst we were making our minds up.
As we had a few vegetarians with us, we decided to order separetely. Our vegetarian friends ordered a vegetable curry and two portions of garlic naan, and us meat lovers had a lamb curry in a cashew nut sauce (I unfortunately can't remember the name of this dish), chicken quesadillas and extra garlic naan. The server who took our orders (I think he was the boss too), was very helpful and chatty and recommended things to us based on our spice tolerance. As I can't take too much spice, he suggested a handful of curries that would be best suited to my taste.We also ordered a portion of nachos for the table to share before the mains arrived.
The food arrived quite quickly and we all tucked into the various dishes laiden in front of us. The chicken quesadillas were made perfectly and weren't smothered in cheese and actually had a good amount of small chicken chunks in each slice. These were also adequately toasted and, once biten into, didn't ooze the contents of the slice onto the plate below. The lamb curry was excellent - the meat was so, so tender and the cashewy sauce was full of flavour and wasn't overloaded at all. Coupled with the warm garlic naan, it was a dish that I would definitely order again. By the time I got around to eating the nachos, they were a little cold and thus the cheese had hardened somewhat. Having said this, they were still packed with flavour (again, not purely overloaded with cheese and generic nacho sauce) and were served with two or three additional condiments on top of the tower of chips. I wish I had gotten to them sooner to enjoy them more.
Halfway through dinner, it was someone on another table's birthday. Whether or not the birthday boy or girl enjoyed this, I thought the idea of the whole restaurant listening to a disco version of the Happy Birthday song was quite entertaining and rather unique.
All in all, I would highly recommend this place for a small, intimate dinner gathering. The restaurant itself is not huge and spacing is quite tight. In terms of pricing, it is more on the pricey side for reasonably sized dishes but it is most definitely worth it. All staff members were very friendly and are probably the friendliest bunch I have come across in a LONG time.
I intend on going back in the very near future to sample more of their curry dishes and to see what else my greedy tummy is willing to sample.
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