Chennai Dosa Express - Fresh Kitchen — Restaurant in Jersey City

Short Review: Extremely disappointed with both the food and hygiene at this restaurant. I would strongly recommend avoiding this place.

Detailed Review: I visited this restaurant on May 31st to pick up my order, which included two portions of batura along with one chole curry and one rajma curry. Unfortunately, the experience from start to finish was poor.

When I arrived to pick up the food, the staff member handling my order was in the middle of eating. Upon seeing my order, he got up and began packing the food without wearing any gloves. What was more concerning was that while handling the curry containers, his fingers were inside the containers while scooping and sealing them. This level of hygiene is simply unacceptable for any food establishment.

As for the food itself, both the chole and rajma curries were extremely watery and bland, lacking any real flavor or consistency. It seemed like boiled legumes were just added to spiced tomato water. The batura was hard and dried out, almost as if it had been sitting out uncovered for days. Overall, the meal was nearly inedible.

To make things worse, the next morning (June 1st), my wife unknowingly ordered the idly-vada combo for breakfast. The peanut chutney was very watery, the sambar was lacking in flavor, and while the idly and vada were passable, the meal overall was not enjoyable.

I don’t usually write such strong reviews, but the combination of poor hygiene, subpar food quality, and overall lack of care in both preparation and service left me very disappointed. This place seriously needs to reevaluate its kitchen practices and food standards. I hope the management takes this feedback seriously and works on improving both food quality and hygiene for the sake of its...

Ok but not a great place. They make good potato masala (ie., the stuffing that goes into a masala dosa or is served with poori masala). Sizes and portions are small, medu vada is ok, chutneys are very spicy, sambhar as usual is pretty pathetic - over spicy or over dark but just not flavorful (I have given up expecting any Indian restaurant serving Southie fare to make good sambhar, with some exception for Saravana Bhavan in NYC). Plus point is reasonable prices given the skyhigh inflation all around. Just your typical maybe slightly above average quick Indian food to go, if you...

I ordered masala idly and podi idly. I can't express how good those were and filling. Idlis were soft and sambhar was also good. Last we finished up ordering filter coffee which was also not bad. Everything feels like fresh. During my visit we are the only customer but I can see they are making fresh so obviously taking time...