Mombay Brasserie — Restaurant in Plymouth

From the outside the appearance is very inviting, colourful and well done. Inside is dark even tho a lot of coloured led lights and other effects are everywhere.

I visited about 8:30pm in a weekday, I expected a semi busy restaurant and maybe even told I might need to wait for a while. That was not the case the restaurant was almost empty and made me think I might be making a mistake, after all eateries best promoted by behinds on seats, yes?. Anyway I took a lonely seat for 1 in a booth. Attentively serviced by the single person, while taking orders, serving drinks and bringing food to tables took my order. Not a hard thing as by now I was the only customer, apart from a young man in the booth 1 spot from me. Medium to good so far. Then the young man. So picture this, me, very tired long day hungry and a 200 mile drive ahead of me to get home, over the low ambient mood music being piped I'm thinking just feed me and let me get on with it. I'd talked myself out of yet another motorway sandwich that was probably the result of a science experiment. Yaeee sit down food nice experience bring it on. Then it started the young man started a video call on his phone with his girlfriend, speaker on and full volume, that's when I wished for the pipes music to be more like the clash at Wembley full volume. I heard it all on the little phone, those speakers have a way of getting out there, amazing. Full blown conversation about acne, pimples and where they have been literally popping up all over. "Stop eating cheese he says to his girlfriend, that takes the conversation on another tangent about veganism and animal welfare. I've had enough and move to a table as far as I can from this public conversation live fest health trip. Then I notice the waiter come out from the kitchen with plates of food, I wave to him call him but he doesn't see only the empty space that I previously and reluctantly lived in, he does a 360 and goes back in the kitchen, it has to be my food I'm the only customer. Shoutin is heard I guess the chef is getting a grilling for taking more than 39 mins (remember that's 39 mins listening to pimple remedies) to get my dish ready. Noise shouting finished waiter reappeared, "Hey please can I have my food" reply "Sorry sir I did not see you, let me take your order". me "Order? Order? I've already ordered you came out with my food, I tried to get your attention because yes I moved but I'm still here, don't you recognise me?" "I'm sorry sir give me 5 minutes I'll get your order". It comes, it's bad I eat it I eat it all, despite the fact It doesn't have any familiarity with the dish that I've had in any Indian restaurant before. I decide to get up and leave pay my bill on the way out and just go home and dream of a motorway sandwich, glorious. However even though I had talked myself down from creating any conflict with the young person on a video call in the middle of a restaurant very loud I could not resist one comment to him as I walked past. "Rude, very rude phone on speaker in a restaurant. Just rude". A little voice came out of the phone, "What did that guy say? Have you had me on speaker in the restaurant omg". That's when it took me over. "Yes he has and everyone now knows about your pimple problem and just where you get these pimple problems". Then to top it off, as I'm waiting at the counter to pay my bill the waiter comes back and, not recognising me again he asks me " would like a table for four people". Looking behind me I realised that three other people had wandered in and were standing behind me, Bemused I said "no I would like to pay for my food". He then asked "Have you already ordered let me see if it's ready for you sir" and I said "I've already ordered and I've eaten it already I was the guy that was sitting in that seat then moved to another seat you've forgotten me twice now I just want to pay and go please let me pay. The three people asked me "is it any good" nodding a head in the direction of the empty tables. Needless to say I gave them my thoughts. I'm sure any...

Walked past this place enough times and decided to pop in and book a table for Saturday. We were greeted with open arms as soon as we stepped in the door. I though I may had been mistaken for a long lost relative. But I don’t remember a trip to India so figured that was unlikely. Turning up on the Saturday was the same. Very friendly.

The drinks were unfortunately warm, even with ice added. I think the Coke was from a long opened bottle as it was also as flat as a pancake that had been run over by a steam roller. We had poppadoms and chutney. One of the dips was extremely spicy as if it had been summoned from the very depths of Hell. The others were mild and tasty though. Who the hell eats raw onions though? Our starter was a mixed kebab plate which we decided to share, I’m glad we did because one of them was also very spicy and required that my partner drink approximately 35 litres of water immediately. Once the staff has refilled the fish tank, the main course arrived. I had a Lamb Korma which was excessively mild. May as well have been a tub of double cream with a spoon in it. But that is what I ordered, so meh. The lamb was tender and delightful. My partner had the chicken passanda which she only has positive words for. Let’s face it, the restaurant is right next to a main road and those chickens need all the encouragement they can get.

The desserts in Indian restaurants tend to be of an ilk although there was an option for a kids ice cream served inside a plastic toy which peaked my curiosity. Not enough to actually order it though. Only actually needed one naan bread. Mine was garlic, although my spidey-senses detected no garlic whatsoever. The naan itself was bright green. I thought perhaps it had come from outer space, but I suppose we’ll never know. The truth is out there. Very good value, and very friendly staff. See...

Where do I start? I completely understand that on a Saturday night the wait for food is going to be longer than usual. So when I was told my order was going to be just over an hour I was completely understanding. However 30 minutes after the original order time had passed I phoned the restaurant to check if my order was on the way. After explaining this I heard the waiter pass the comment onto another person in the background who said "it's going to be at least 25 minutes yet" This person then picked up the phone to me and told me it was ten minutes away. I told him I wasn't happy as it was now going to be past 2 hours since I first placed my order to which he said my order would be with me with in 15 minutes. After a further 25 minutes my food still hadn't arrived (now an hour and 15 minutes late) I phoned again to which the same person said it was on its way and he was sorry it was so late but he was too busy to let people know their food would be late. When I asked for a refund or some money off I was told since I had paid through Just Eat he couldn't do anything for me. So then after the food arrived I was furious when tasting my partners curry to find it was bland sloppy and luke warm to say the least. My curry was very tasty but swimming in oil. The onion for the poppadoms hadn't even been chopped up properly, it was just in massive chunks in the tub. We will not ever...