Khaamar Baari — Restaurant in New York

Just homely Bengali food. Not restaurant types... Don’t go with so many expectations

I have heard about this from my Bengali friends, though I am not Bengali I just love Bengali food, much much variety which I never saw in other cuisines. Don’t get me started on fish types and their various preparation. I knew it's not a proper restaurant so my expectation was not like that. We went there with 3 other Bengali friends. You have to go to counter to see all the food items and then you can choose whatever you want. We ordered so many things, alu-chokha-baigan bharta- alu bhaja- mutton curry- ilish mach-prawn curry- some fish with gobhi- fish fry Out table was not sufficient for keeping all the dishes. My fellow Bengali friends were really happy to see this and we liked the food. Yup, we liked it. As it was more like home food and not fancy Bengali restaurant type. Everything was bringing memories from Kolkata homes. And it is not even expensive. Every item was from $4-$12. We four were there and it was $72 only and we had 6-7 dishes. Only bad thing is that from Jersey City to Queens, we had to change 2 paths, so one person it is $11 for both ways. So we spent $44 to come here and have this food. Was it worth it? I would say NO. but yes, once in while...

They served our order with room temperature not even warmed! We also orderd couple of sodas and we did not receive any cold one and surprisingly water too. It was the last day of Ramadan's iftar. Everybody expect atleast warm food does not matter how busy the store is and when it is iftar. We were at other Bengali restaurant last week for iftar (I don't want to mention the name of the store) and they served hot food and warmed in microwave infront of us. However, I spoke to the person about our dissatisfaction who came for the bill and he said sorry for...

Food is good but the way the staff behaves.. OH MY GOD I was just shocked. I was patiently waiting for my food and when I asked the guy to give me some more caramelized onions on my dish the guy serving me the food yelled at me saying “ DITASI NA” I have driven 3 hours straight to just have some Roast and Polao in a hospitable and nice restaurant; I was tired and I was really nice and patient and still the guy yelled.. Only good food quality is not enough, having bad staff who behaves rudely with customers is never good business. 1st impression...