Hola Indian Restaurant Uvita — Restaurant in Bahía Ballena

The reviews you see here are very misleading, as they have come from a former restaurant that is long since closed, not the Indian restaurant, which I am writing about.

We visited recently, and the staff were super friendly for sure, but the order was incorrect when it came out. No offer to fix it or to discount anything of course (I find this common here for some reason). He brought out his iPad to prove to me that we got what he put into the iPad (though not what we ordered).

The food was very good, nice to have Indian food, but the portions are shockingly small for the price. We placed our order, and the fellow came back to tell us that our choice was unavailable, so he offered something else - fine - we ordered spicy, and bland was a much better description of what we received.

The second item that we ordered was lamb, and we got chicken. But rest assured, the ipad did show that we ordered chicken, not lamb, so we got exactly what he did put into the computer haha.

In the end we had two chicken dishes, each dish was about CRC8,000 and included five small chunks of chicken, so enough to feed a small child approximately. For 20,000 we got nine or ten small chunks of chicken, no lamb, and some really tasty naan.

The food tasted good, the service in the end was mediocre at best, and perhaps this is just because they are new. The extremely small portions are the smallest I have seen anywhere, certainly for the price.

I am hoping that they can improve things a bit, and perhaps they can train on customer service, but I am not holding my...

Worst experience, do not come unless you’re a group of 10+ gringos. We are a family with a young child who arrived at 6:25 pm. We ordered drinks and moments later a group of 10+ gringos arrived from the ayahuasca retreat. We placed our order at 6:35 pm. And they placed theirs shortly after. To our astonishment and surprise they got ALL their food to them before we got ours. When we finally got our food at 8:15 pm we were disappointed to find Consomé Maggie de pollo used in the Goan seafood soup, artificial lemon used for the lemonade and salad, papadum soggy and dripping with oil, green chimichurri sauce tasted like soap. We never received our lamb, lentils, rice or naan that we ordered. By 8:35 pm our child was exhausted and still hungry. When we asked them how come they were able to feed the entire table of 10+ people but could not get food to the young boy and the family that arrived first and ordered first they said it was our fault because of what we ordered and that they didn’t have enough burners in the kitchen. We are never going back and urge you to stay away. We still managed to pay $85.00 for apps and drinks because it’s overpriced. No to mention the fact that the toilets are FILTHY. As I write this I’m literally gagging from the rancid oil used in...

Avoid!! It’s a container restaurant next to a main road, a gas station and a trash collection shack. It has moldy chairs, annoying modern Indian music, a bowl of plain rice for 6$ and a boss who has a reputation for questionable business practices. I was being ripped off here over the course of many weeks and orders, by being charged a service fee when ordering for pickup, the boss later blaming this on his workers, who actually are hard working people and wouldn’t even profit from doing that. When exposed and pressured, he claimed the percentage fee was for food containers. Right, the box my food comes in costs a percentage of the food price :) Hilarious. Then he offered me a free meal, i wanted a different dish and had to pay up. The meal had less meat than any of the other 20 orders i had placed there in the past. Ridiculous.

Fun fact: After i posted my first negative review here, one of the people in charge tried calling me on WhatsApp. Says it all.

There’s a fantastic Indian restaurant next to SIBU that just opened in June 2023. Their food is better, their ambience is better, their service is better, their pricing is better, they deliver, and they gave us a discount on our first visit. Just like that. I suggest you give that one a...