Shenbagam Bar & Restaurant

Really surprised at all these 5 star reviews, either everyone has bad taste or we had an extremely unlucky day. To start with, I’ve worked in hospitality myself and the minute I entered there was no hello or please wait a minute, I’ll be with you in a shortly. The place was nearly empty so what are the staff doing exactly? Twiddling their thumbs? After about 5mins we were seated but server was extremely slow with taking our drinks and orders - also didn’t repeat the order back to us or asked about allergies (we didn’t have any but you need to ask people these things!), because they didn’t repeat the order back to us they served the drinks wrong. The curries were extremely runny, ok taste in terms of flavours but nothing exciting. The plates were cold, I’d highly suggest serving guests hot plates to keep the dinner warm. We sat at 7:30pm and didn’t leave until 11pm because they seem to have forgotten about us and not bothered checking in either, we had to make it really obvious we wanted to bill so that we could leave and it wasn’t a busy night for them at all, there was no excuse to be so absent. I think save your money and go somewhere like Akshaya for quality Sri Lankan and South Indian dishes. The only positives were cheap prices, everywhere looked clean, and the main guy (not the server) was smiley and had a positive attitude.