Friends Indian Restaurant — Restaurant in Lodi

I hate hate hate giving bad feedback, I always try to see the glass as half full. Annnd We LOVE indian food. My first visit here and at about 12:00 we walked right in and sat down. Hardly anyone there, I was happy an yet confused why this place wasn't bustling. But it was a monday so... 😕 Lots of booth seating wide open floor plan where if I wanted I could of done the Macarena and not hit a single person or thing. 👍 A modest buffet set up about three chicken choices (sort of, there were only two pieces of chicken tendori left) and about three curry vegetarian choices, in addition to salad, basmati, chips?, fried broccoli, yogurt, three dessert choices (sort of they ran out of rice pudding) they did not restock and the guy was checking on the buffet but didn't apologize for not having enough chicken or rice pudding. He said something like, "wow the rice pudding was popular" as I scraped the sides of the container getting a meger amount even for a mouse! That said, this place was dirty, bathrooms dingy and there was bar soap in the bathroom (eww! I don't even like using bar soap after family members😱), booths were sticky with some sort of black goop on the top back rest of the booth. I know because I put my arm on it and then had to peel my arm off. Found a black short straight hair in the buffet raita! Rice seemed extra greasy.The naan basket was woven and wooden, and was dirty (black) right at the edge where you pick it up and carry it (eww!). The "clean" plates had greasy finger smudges on all the edges.They didn't restock empty food for buffet rice pudding and tendori chicken... (Which I can't believe we stayed and ate! I guess I was hoping it would not be so bad.) The guy was nice though... But sooooo disappointed. 😖 I'm giving two stars because i didnt die or get sick...

We had a really unfortunate experience here. I tried contacting the restaurant, but they’ve provided no help regarding this. I ordered lamb biryani, chicken pakora, papri chat, butter chicken, roti, and parantha. The menu says the lamb biryani has nuts in it. I verified biryani ingredients and how they make it when I ordered in the restaurant. We arrived home with the food, and it was super disappointing. The biryani had no nuts, so I called and they said they don’t put them in anymore. That makes no sense to me since I was told there are nuts when I ordered, and it’s listed on the menu as containing nuts - all the biryanis said they had nuts. The chicken pakora was extremely soggy and greasy, and the papri chat was ice cold with very large chunks of onion, tomato, and cucumber, with far too much yogurt. It was like a soup. I have never had that happen with papri chat anywhere else. The rest of the food was hot, so I’m not sure what happened. The customer service when ordering was fine, but not so great when there was a problem with the food. Kind of a bummer we paid $70 for food that was cold and missing ingredients listed on the menu ☹️ After calling, I started eating and then bit into two different pieces of pakora that had bone fragments, but I’m not calling back because they don’t seem to care. Maybe it was an off night seeing as they have...

My husband and I traveled 12 hours arrived at hotel. Husband asked about any good Indian food near by. Absolutely excellent food!!! I loved the coconut lamb curry, Husband the lamb vindaloo, we shared a mixed appetizer, popadoms, even the chutney was delicious. Then enjoyed the pistachio Kulfi. If we lived in Lodi this would be our "go to"! We were the only ones in dining room... brisk take out business...

Ok, since was SO good last night, my husband and I came back husband and I came back tonight (since we're leaving Lodi in morning). Tonight we enjoyed Tandori mixed grill, lamb saag, veggie pakora, kheer and I had pistachio khulfi. So full of flavor. If we ever return to Lodi we will definitely be back! Yes, the food is...