インド料理 シャグン(SHAGHUN) 溝の口店 — Restaurant in Kawasaki

First and foremost, I wanted to bifurcate my rating to this restaurant. On a positive note, I would say 4/5 for the taste and almost 0 for the service. I would like to share the detailed explanation based on my experience with no exaggeration.

So about the taste, as a South Indian I agree the food was really tasty especially the chicken biryani, masala dosa and needless to say about their paneer pakoda. I could feel the satisfaction thoroughly in terms of the taste. However, I can't relish it completely due to several factors concerning to the service.

I visited the restaurant with my Japanese guests yesterday. Call it friendly or not, but interrupting at every other minute in between our meal time was so disturbing. I would have tolerated if it was for once or twice, but it was literally for "n" times which made us felt very uncomfortable. For example, while I was trying to explain about the food I ordered to my guests, the waiter interrupted and give his idea in Japanese as if we asked him. Actually, the waiter talked to my Japanese guests and ghosted us and also made us to feel "okay" with such interruptions. It could be addressed as a friendly manner, but it was definitely not and have put all of us in an uncomfortable state.

Secondly, we wanted to order few south Indian dishes, and we would be definitely comprehend the situation where is not possible to make them while busy hours. Rather the waiter was rude and told us "no no don't order this, we cant make this", and he literally forced us to order Gobi Manchurian for almost 5 times. Well, he was so impatient and kept forcing us to order something, where we wanted some time to think of other alternatives. The tense created in us made us to not enjoy the overall experience.

Also, to keep an eye on us all the time and kept interrupting our conversation made us to leave earlier. That's the reason I couldn't relish the taste of the food. I felt the waiters could have been more sensible in giving the customers their privacy. I hope this could be changed, otherwise this will be a biggest drawback. I might have ignored it if I came there alone but when I was with guests with an expectation to establish connection, that was highly disturbing!

It was my...

I walked by this place every week for months, always wanting to go in and try. I'm from Canada and I used to eat a lot of authentic Indian food, however I've found that most Indian restaurants here are "adjusted" for Japanese taste.

This restaurant, however, tastes much more authentic and is much closer to the taste I'm used to. The first time I went for lunch, I had the Tandoori set with Sheekh Kebab and Mutton Curry. It was absolutely delicious. So spicy and flavourful. I also tried the Butter Chicken (my personal favourite) and Saag Chicken Curry, both of which were perfect.

The staff was very friendly and easy to communicate with in both Japanese and English.

I returned a second time recently to try the Chicken Biryani, which I ordered for take-out. They allowed me to leave to do some shopping and I paid upon returning to pick up the food, which was very convenient. The Biryani was delicious. It had a very distinct flavour and used the proper long-grain rice you'd expect. It was so good, I wish I had the time to sit down at the restaurant to eat it sooner.

I'm very happy that I've tried this restaurant and I plan to go back...

Absolutely delicious, perfect service, nothing to complain about! The curries had such nice flavour, the naan was delicious, we got some plain naan and some cheese naan. Heavenly. For the first time I tried some fish based curry (I love meat too much to order fish in a curry, but I really wanted to challenge the place and my tastebuds, and try something new). It was crazy delicious. We also had a traditional mutton curry, to play it safe, and it was just as good. I’m also a dessert lover and I can’t leave a restaurant without dessert. It had been a while since I last had gulab jamun, so I chose those. The waiter warned us (he actually warned my Japanese boyfriend) that they were very sweet, knowing Japanese people’s taste, and he was right: I really love the sweetness of the syrup, but for my boyfriend it was a little too sweet as he is not used to it, although he enjoyed the flavour! I honestly loved it! We actually decided to come back before we even tried the food, since the service was absolutely excellent. The staff was so nice with us, such good manners. We also loved the atmosphere and the interior of the place. They will see...