Atithi Indian Restaurant Delft — Restaurant in Delft

What a horrible experience. The place felt low budget, basically located in the hallway of the burger king (stationed besides the high way). The waittress was akwardly bad. I don't mind people not speaking the dutch language well, at least speak English well then. But even if they can't speak English well, at least try to do your job. If we order drinks, bring them! If we have eaten, pick up the dishes, don't let them sit for minutes on end at our table! If we order dishes, note them correctly! If i need to correct you when you notions are wrong, correct them! In the end i needed to go to the chef and tell the order was wrong after telling the waitress about 3 times! And this all would've been okay if the food was decent. Instead our entrees were luke warm, to the point of cold. Who wants to eat a cold samosa or pakora? And i wouldn't even call it pakora, it was a bit of flour dough pasted on some paneer. No taste! And we waited an hour for three simple entrees (pakora, samosa, a samosa Chaat which basically was a samosa with some stuff around it - not a real samosa Chaat,). While we ordered the entrees we also ordered the main dish, besides 1 of my group who wanted to order later. What happened? Our order wasn't even noted down. And the waitress never came back to ask if we wanted to order again. So when our cold entrees came we had to ask ourselves. We re-ordered and had to wait 40+ minutes again. When the food finally came the main dish (dosa) was cold...that's when we stood up, paid for what we have eaten and left....

We love Athiti and go often, mainly for the food though. There's some downsides.

😟 Servers can be testy and a little standoffish. We've not always had the best customer service experience there, but nothing extreme.

😃 They do serve authentic Indian food and it's one of the few Indian restaurants that our Indian friends will dine in.

😃 They make Pani Puri and other delicious specialty street food and drinks.

😟 It's very crowded and the tables for two are ridiculously small.

😟 We've often been shocked at how expensive the bill got.

😃 It's very conveniently located in the centre of The Hague.

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So all in all, we love it but it could improve on...

The Atithi Restaurant on the motorway next to Delft has been a place myself and my wife has visited for the last 3 years almost weekly. Although the restaurant is supposed to be fast food the service and food is great and at least as good if not better than most Indian restaurants. The staff are really friendly and we enjoy conversing with them and the the food tastes great keeping myself and my wife coming back week after week. Unfortunately we have heard that the restaurant is closing soon which is a huge shame and although there is alternatives it will be hard to replace the experience and ease for use to get to this...