Balti Balti — Restaurant in Arona

Food was bad and they knew it.

We went here with high expectations but it wasn’t good. From the first moment when the starters arrived we knew it wouldn’t be great.

Samosas were baked rather than fried and they were just the small uninspiring ones you get from an English supermarket with no flavour. Very dry from being baked.

Chicken pakora was just chicken goujon strips in a red batter. No flavour.

For the main we opted for the chicken aloo paneer Balti, butter chicken, garlic rice and garlic cheese naan.

The plates arrived and although plates should be warm, these were burning, which had the effect of drying the food out when it was placed on it.

The chicken aloo paneer tasted nice, although the chicken was a bit dry and chewy. My partner could not eat his butter chicken; the flavour was very much like an oxo cube and the meat like chicken kebab strips. Nothing like a butter chicken should be.

The naan appeared to have garlic salt and dried cheese on it which made it extremely salty and basically inedible.

Although the restaurant was empty, not one of the four waiters came over to check on us as they could obviously tell we weren’t enjoying it.

In the end (after watching another waiter drying cutlery and dropping it on the floor and then just wiping it again) we had to grab their attention for the bill.

Again, no question as to whether we enjoyed it or not. We just paid the bill and left. Won’t be coming back as there are plenty of better restaurants in...

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