Aladdin's kitchen VA — Restaurant in Virginia

The owner of this restaurant charged me more than 3 times of what would have been charged by another Bengali restaurant few doors down which is Gharer Khabar. I will not go back there because when I ordered the catering the new owner did not tell me the cost even after I asked him several times and told me he would give me a special price because he knows me. When I went to pick up the food he charged me an exorbitant amount of over $1100 and after I showed him the estimate from Gharer Khabar which would have been less than half the price he gave me a discount and charged me $950 which was still high. Thr owner was charging me $6 fpr chicken toast which is $3 at Gharer Khabar next door. Hr charged me $100 for a few pieces of gulab jamun which was rock hard probably old. When I showed him the estimate from Gharer Khabar for yhe same food he was saying their food quality is not good. I was given a estimate of $12 per person for the same food at Gharer Khabar and Aladdin owner charged me $20 per person for the same food. His business ethics is not good as he should have told me the price of the food when I placed the food order. He clearly took advantage of me as I had to pick up the food just before my party and there was no way to cancel the order. I won't go back there ever again and he lost a customer and I will not recommend anyone to order catering at Aladdin because the owner clearly does not have any business ethics and tries to rip off...

This Restaurant is under new management since February, 2022. Despite seeing all the bad reviews, still I thought of trying their Kachhi Biryani as I was really craving for it. Before I ordered the food I spoke to the person who took the order who was praising their Kacchii Biryani, said it test just like Kacchii found in Dhaka. Both the owner and the guy who was working at the register talked very highly about all of their food saying “food taste nothing like before”. After being impressed by their talk I ordered Kacchii Biryani with some chicken Samosas. They took awfully long time to give my order. Even though Biryani was ready in about 15 minutes but the chicken Samosas took another 20 minutes. Anyhow, I came home with this take out order, after I opened it I was despicably disappointed. Biryani had a strange smell, it was covered with burned onions and burned meats. It neither tasted nor smelled any Biryani forget about Kacchii Biryani. On the top of that, it was overly salty. Next, I tasted Somosas despite of horrible burn look I almost puke. I never tasted such a horrible tasting samosas before even in other poor reviews restaurants. Chicken samosas were not only over fried, but definitely fried in burnt or old oil as it tasted bitter. Meats inside the Somosas had no flavor of spices and tasted so dry. I wish google review had Zero before the stars. I am very disappointed after wasting my money on these trashy food from this...

First time trying this restaurant. First of all they should stop taking dine-in orders. Small things that can improve customer experience were lacking. For example, serving four portions of food for four people in three plates without an extra plate. No water served on table. And orders take ages. They are probably understaffed and should focus mostly on take-outs. Service (2/5)

We also ordered take-outs. I ordered the kacchi, and it smelled strange/old/rotten. I am also curious why I had chicken pieces in kacchi. Wasn't it supposed to be goat? Baby goat? I remember asking the person twice while paying if this is what the kacchi is supposed to be like and he was like. " yes, we are even giving you an extra egg that we generally don't provide." (0/5). I paid $17.99 and got a rotten chicken biryani like dish.

The polao and roast were decent. I give them that. I wont say it was magical, but it's a 4/5 for me.

We also had daal puris, that were as crunchy and hard as papads. (2/5)

Moghlai porota was good. (4/5).

Fish - 4/5

Overall, I don't recommend dining in. Both this restaurant and the one next door has serious service issues. They take hours for services. However, in terms of taste and quality I feel Aladdin...