The Cricket Lounge - Indian Restaurant & Bar - Sutton — Restaurant in London

This review is based on our experience with Buffet we ate on Sunday. Few things:

Most important thing is how adding around 10% (precisely 11%) service charge over the advertised buffet price made no sense to me. It left us a bad taste in our mouths. The logic behind buffet is self-serve, and we didnt understand why these service charges were added. Its a false advertising otherwise. Either you sell this buffet as £15, or dont charge these misleading service charges. I am sure before making a decision of adding such service charges, the owner also mustve gotten the doubts if he should do it or not. I can tell it because when owner gave me the bill receipt and when i was inspecting it, he tried to distract me with unnecessary conversations.

Food taste was decent than most of Indian places in all honesty. I guess this is the strongest factor.

The total number of food items are lesser than any other buffets i have ever eaten, which made us feel that the price of £13 (plus service charge) is expensive for this buffet. We have eaten at better locations, ambience and more items in similar price. There definitely should be a sweet item in the menu.

Charging £6 for less than 5 year old kids is harsh to be honest when most places offer infact "under 5 kids eat for free".. still this £6 is fine and genuine but imagine paying almost £15 for 6-7 year kids buffet which makes this place budget unfriendly if you have kids of age group 6-10. This is another short-sightedness we observed. Kids under 4-5 should be free literally considering they eat such littl3 amount, and upto 8 or 10 should be £6-8 if owner wants to bring more families.

Ambience really need a lot of work. Creating menu of the shape of bat and ball wont make it a "cricket lounge". Currently its in sad state.

Owner Rohit is definitely seem friendly but oversell few things. For ex, i am not sure who ranked this place number 1 out of 125 indian restaurants when you have settled restaurants like Grange in the area. I am sure he wont like my review too but try not to oversell it as people can catch it.

The restaurant has lot of potential and most importantly the "hero product" their food taste is clearly a winner. If they really and genuinely work on few things with long road vision, they can clearly do a lot good.

For me, I wont be visiting it again soon (even if i crave for good food) and clearly wont recommending unless someone tells me in the future that they have worked on few things. I can still feel some bad taste in my mouth as passively treating...

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