Budda Kitchen & Bar — Restaurant in New York

My boyfriend and I wanted to have a date night and step out of the Astoria/Queens area. This restaurant has popped out on my Instagram so we decided to give it a try. I tried calling twice to see if they had seating available. Nobody answered when arriving there was no host. The person who offered us Siting just gave us the 1st table he saw in front of the bar. Really wasn’t able to enjoy The concept of the restaurant. SERVICE : Our server was the best part of our visit here. She was great! Always around to take our order. Sadly wasn’t able to get her name because the music was a bit to loud with made it impossible to have conversation. It’s a bit of an inconvenience when taking an order. It’s a bit of an inconvenience when taking . She was also unable to get closer due to the fact there is no space between table. When we ordered our food she did inform us it was a bit of a wait but hey gave us time to try the drinks. DRINKS/FOOD: No complain on our 1st round. We even decided for 2nds but wanted to try something different. On their page, I had seen a drink that caught my eye I showed the picture to the waitress. Tell you this drink is $20 which is fine Due to the presentation, but that’s all it was presentation. Left my drink halfway and that’s that I tried to finish it While waiting for my food, but that drink stayed there. My boyfriend ordered and 10 minutes before they serve us. They informed him they ran out of yuca fries. Honestly, no biggie because at this point, we were just hungry. AN HOUR WAIT for our food. TWO SUSHI ROLLS and ONE Entrée. My boyfriend had a cut off half of the ribeye because it was mostly fat. The Sushi was OK but not really worth the drive . The bill came out to about $2OO (4 drinks , two rolls and one entree). I was hoping the wait was worth the taste but honestly disappointed. Besides my waitress sever and the DJ. The menu is an uptown version of Bad Habits...

I hate to give this place a one but unfortunately as it was my first time i will detail everything that went wrong . It was my daughters friends bday and her mom decided to pick this as their venue. We were here at 430 and everyone say. I sat apart to give the girls room to celebrate. The kitchen became out of service and no food came out at all. No types of appetizers or snacks were given to anyone. Only drinks were served. We were waiting for the “technician” for over an hour. The manager came around but no one made any type of effort to keep the restaurant guests attended to. We ended up buying some chips for our table and a few drinks. After waiting til 6:00 we decided we were going to leave. After we got our tab and were about to leave we were told that the kitchen was open. This is unacceptable especially for a party which was scheduled with much anticipation. I will post most pics. Unfortunately i would not choose this as a venue since they have no type of emergency preparations in case of mishaps...

First time customer, came to celebrate Valentines Day with my mom. Server was super nice, host + music (DJ) was good.

Ordered calamari and rocking shrimp. Calamari were good, shrimp not so good. Didn’t taste fresh and they were a bit on the hard side.

Waited more than 45 minutes for my for our main entree, which was understandable because it was a busy night. However, I ordered the stuffed Salmon with crabmeat + shrimp (under the special) sauce on the side and fried rice. Being that I don’t eat meat, I asked the server to ensure that it was plain fried rice, in which she ensured that was the case. That wasn’t the case. Sauce came right on top and I think the rice had pieces of chicken. Left eating mash potatoes. Was definitely disappointed. No bueno.

Regardless of the situation whether it was a error on the server or chef, with 15years + in the hospitality industry and spending over $125, would have been nice at least for the manager to swing...