Thali — Restaurant in London

I feel bad giving such a poor review since the service was decent but the food quality to price ratio was way off. You wouldn't think a restaurant calling itself Thali would be so expensive. Ordered an appetizer to share, a lamb dish and a veg dish and a single beer. Total bill ended up around £60, and the quality of food was 3.5 star at best.

The other thing that turned us off, but I can't fault the restaurant, is we felt very out of place. We were a middle aged couple looking for a nice indian restaurant. When we arrived at 6:30, the restaurant was almost empty. By the time we left at 7:30 or 8 almost all the tables in the restaurant were occupied by middle aged men in business suits. We felt like we were at a business...

First of all, I am very surprised with some of these positive reviews. Some are just outrageous (e.g. "Best Indian food I EVER ate").

Cons: very slow service (took us almost 40min to receive the dishes on a Saturday where there were only two other tables being served!!) some food came cold (they decided to bring all the food at the same time and one of the dishes had clearly been waiting for a while) one of the dishes came dirty, so I had to ask for a new one. they got one of the orders wrong small portions of food some of the papadum was not fresh

Pros: cheap food for Chelsea staff was apologetic for the wrong rice dish and did not charge anything for that dish...

We had to wait for 1 hour to get our main courses, because they said the chef put too many spices in the food, they had to cook it again. We ordered Korma, and 1 hour after they brought a white-transparent sauce with 4 pieces of chicken...they said it was korma, traditional receipe. The chicken was raw, but the owner kept saying it was a different way of doing korma, slow-cooked, which didnt make sense as it was raw. It was very unprofessional from the owner's side to treat us as we were stupid and believe that was the dish, which we know very well as we've had it in other indian restaurants. Very unprofessional and horrible behaviour of...