Desi Dhaba — Restaurant in Cambridge

If I could give negative rating, I would. I hardly ever say negative stuff about anything, so that says something. I had gone there for Buffet when I was hungry- real hungry, so logically the food should have tasted good as food generally tastes good when you are hungry. But NO! The saag had no taste, it equalled to boiled spinach with little bit of salt. The matar paneer had very little paneer and the matar (peas) where definitely just dumped into the curry from a frozen peas packet. Kheer is probably the easiest thing to make, but it tasted like they had just mixed watered down milk with rice cooked with sugar. No taste or even proper salt in any dish. I have no idea how on Earth this restaurant has such a high rating.

Update: This same restaurant appears under the name of Veggie Wonderland on Uber eats. I made a mistake of ordering thinking this is a new restaurant. And now looking at the address I realise it is the same restaurant. I can say this, the food was as horrible as I remembered it. Please do not waste your money ordering food from here. The naan was undercooked and bland. The vegetable jalfrezi I ordered was some mixed vegetables cooked together with some tomato onion gravy with EXTRA WATER and no flavour much less the actual flavour of jalfrezi. And the pakoras! In addition to not having any flavour, they weren’t even crispy. Even if I think about the time for delivery, pakoras don’t go soft so fast. Never again am I ordering food online without checking...

Save Your Money and Time! This place is such a shame to Indian food. If I could give this place 0 stars trust me, I would. We ordered delivery for 2 and it was roughly $60. The ETA on the order was 15min. I should have known that it was going to be old curries that will be reheated. You can't cook curries in 15 minutes and have it delivered within that 15 minutes. The three curries we ordered were stale and tasted off. I can confidently say that these are old curries.The Garlic Naan was basically raw dough with no garlic. That means I literally paid extra for a regular Naan, which was raw. Are you kidding me?! The Chicken Karahi had watery tomato gravy ( there was water on top of the curry sauce) and the chicken was boiled and dunked into the gravy. I've had many chicken Karahi so I know what it should look like and taste like. This was disgusting. We also ordered a Lamb Rogan Josh which had the same gravy taste as the chicken one...why?? These are completely different dishes. And the freaking Daal Makhani,it had a weird smell and it was slimy and stale. Now this is the KEY word here: STALE. A lot of the reviews from South Asian people here all use this word. From experience, we know when our home-cooked curries go bad or old so how is it any different for restaurant curries? It's not like we don't know what we are talking about. We threw away everything. We couldn't eat anything due to the smell and taste. This was inedible and borderline...

My review was removed(!) so I'm back and I've removed an additional star and I'll follow up with a screen grab so I can form a paper trail this time.

We arrived toward the end of dinner service on a Thursday (just before 9). Visible is some buffet infrastructure; it seems like there are hours to the buffet and those hours are not 9pm on a Thursday.

Our service was perfect. Personable fellow who was present and available when you want a server but not hovering.

Our food was good ish. My partner is not a fan of spice and I am so I might be back to see what the "hot" is like... but I'll probably go with takeout or show up when there's outdoor seating available. (Keep reading...)

"Please wait to be seated" means you are assigned a table. The place was empty and nearly silent except for one couple at the far end of the room that was waiting for their check and a 4-top near the door. We were seated at the table next to the 4-top. The couple left soon after we were seated. This 4-top next to us had one person that was obviously sick. Coughing, sniffling, and sneezing the entire time they were there. I never know what to do in this situation; this was a 4 top of adults. Perhaps they were just traveling through and needed a place to eat but it was definitely one sick adult who made a choice to enter a dining room but at some point, it becomes the restaurant's choice to let them chill out...