Desi Grill — Restaurant in New York

One of the worst services I've ever had. Im not sure where to start, we were one of 2 tables at the restaurant and it took us 20 minutes to be talked by a server. The table's table cloth was dirty and the seats had crumbs when we sat down. Because we were waiting for so long we knew what we wanted to order, yet no beverage orders were taken even as we ordered and we had to ask 10 to 15 minutes later for us to be given water. That's 35-40 minutes as one of two tables in the restaurant to be given water and when we did receive it, it was room temperature. 30 minutes before closing, our server went home, and the hostess took over. We had placed an order for multiple appetizers and one mango lassi, and two of the appetizers and the lassi were not given to us by the time our meal came out. apparently our itital server forgot the order, and we brought it to the attention of our current server, and she apologized then placed blame on the previous server who left midway during our service. She didn't write any of our order down despite us being a party of 7 and ordered many items, so it was bound to happen. We all drank our water and had to ask for refills as our food came out, that's two to three times we had to ask to have water. The food was overall pretty mediocre, not bad but certainly nothing I would come back for. I felt like the sauces were too tomato based and lacked depth of flavor. As we were on our way out, the two tables that left an hour before we did still didn't have their tables cleaned. I think the waitress had her iPod on shuffle and was playing Taylor Swift and Bruno Mars all night, singing loudly to it, not once coming over to see if we needed anything. Over all just awful service...

CRITICISMS OF FOOD: if you order the butter chicken aka (chicken makhani curry) they use some strong food coloring so your fingers are stained; butter chicken shouldn't do that if its made with the correct recipe, naan with mint/"luchedaar" is so salty, when you order chicken biryani then you will still get vegetables inside of it (Google Images search Chicken Biryani), if you order Butter Chicken spicy they give you Chicken Vindaloo (I think that's what it was) because the Butter Chicken is typically made mild but I was sick so I ended with something that was not spicy Butter Chicken.

CRITICISMS UPON ORDERING FROM THERE MULTIPLE TIMES: They don't pay attention to the special instructions, sometimes they don't give you what you ordered, they don't have plastic spoons & forks when ordering take out, they don't have food ready sometimes when you come to pick up food, otherwise food that is easy to make they seem to call you and are annoyed that you haven't picked it up yet.

CRITICISMS OF STAFF: The kid with the glasses seem to be running the show and is good at it; everyone else is bored and acts like they're doing prison time.

CRITICISMS OF CLEANLINESS: If you go late enough you may be able to see some...

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