May 15, 2008
I've read the other reviews to this place and I think one thing is quite apparent, not only from the reviews but from personal experience as well.
If you want to have a good time and remember this place fondly, go early on the weeknights, or at lunch any time during the week.
If you want to think of this place as one you would never want to come back to then visit it at Saturday night... I would thoroughly appreciate not being subtly (although thats not exactly what it was...bill on the table before we asked for it) asked to leave no matter how many people are waiting outside, as long as my behavior and that of my companions are within acceptable norms...
Either way, the food is nice, and well priced. The service can vary from being completely unobtrusive, to standing on your head so that you catch the hint... Its not that I mind being asked to, "..move along now...", and I have been, but that was in places where I expect such a situation (udipi's etc.), so if these guys could come up with a streamlined reservation system wherein you were assured you were not necessarily going to need to wait too long for a table and also not pressured while inside, to vacate your table.
The food here is better than most places, comfortably priced as well, and the ambience is generally good (except for those non-smokers). But there are other places nereby that offer just as good food, with similar ambience, and equally as reasonable pricing, and where you are NOT made to feel pressured to vacate your table...
Hope these folks get it together for their weekend services, it'd do much better for it as a restaurant.
Word-of-mouth power is amazing, which is why this site is amazing... Proprietor's beware...