Large selection of dishes representing the varied cuisine of the entire subcontinent. I had a Southern breakfast (albeit late night) of Idli Sambhar and Masala Dosa. My wife had a street food style selection of Samosa Chaat.

I am rating 5 stars to be nice. But, if I am being brutally honest, 5th Element lowered their standards during CoViD-19, and never restored them. The real epidemic is the widespread decrease in service levels, coupled with outrageous increases in pricing, implemented by so many businesses of all types.

They used to start you off with three complimentary papadum, accompanied by three chatni (hari, aam, and khatti meethi). Now, they do not do that. This applies to multiple locations.

They used to have an after dinner, complimentary, chai station, and soft serve station. The soft serve was supposedly out of order. We've all heard this from McDonald's so many times that it is a running joke. The fact is, McDonald's doesn't put in the effort to maintain the machine. I hope that is not the case here.

I was given a small chai when I asked if they still did the after dinner chai station. But, to be clear, there was no station. The gentleman prepared one and brought it to me.

From one point of view, he was going above and beyond to provide good service. But, from a more grounded, experienced point of view, he would not have to have done that if the former, better level of service were already in place.

This Daytona location did appear to have a lunch buffet, so that is good. All these restaurants that got rid of self-serve areas, even to the extent of refills and ketchup packets can all go to hell. There is no excuse for that now. They all used what basically amounted to the flu as an excuse to drawback services in an unreasonable manner. Simultaneously they raised their prices.

The Baymeadows location very recently reimplemented their buffet. It was just a couple of weeks ago. People, it has been YEARS since the sniffles came through. There are no more things that can be blamed on CoViD-19. If your business is lacking, it is not related to what happened back then.

They had a pretty spectacular looking bar area. I do not personally drink alcohol. But, I have in the past. The bar is very well stocked and kept clean. I have uploaded pictures of it. It lights up from within, which is really cool. I am sure they spent a lot of money putting this in place.

The bathroom was acceptable. This is a big problem for Indian restaurants especially. I feel like it has more to do with employees using the restroom and leaving it in bad shape than it does to do with the public. So, I'm not saying the bathroom was immaculate. It was just acceptable.