Since every restaurant in Manhattan is expensive, this is on the pricey side as well, given that they serve lunch buffet style. Their roti is delicious and their Punjabi style eggplant is a must. Overall excellent food.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 5
Baljeet Singh
Best service
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Samosa
Liz Knott
The feast portion is perfect for a student, it’s vegetables, a meat, and a bunch of delicious white rice for 13.75. The food was absolutely delicious and the staff were so friendly and helpful.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Sage Lau
Delicious the food is fast and affordable! You can get a meal for $13! Got the Chicken Tika Masala eggplant and rice.
Garlic naan is delicious. Also tried the Papri chat and malai kofta very flavorful!
The workers are very nice
Food: 5
Service: 5
Khurram Parkar
Net and clean restaurant. Good food. Nice serving.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 4
Neha Sarin
We used Saffron Thread for catering a few times now. The service and food are always top notch. Our guests were raving about everything, especially the aloo tikki chaat and mixed grill. Highly recommend!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Bonhomme
Excellent food and service, I highly recommend! 👍🏼
Zoe Steinberg
A Saffron Thread on Chambers Street is a complete rip-off. The prices are outrageous for the microscopic portions they serve — it’s insulting, especially when people are already struggling to make ends meet. This isn’t fine dining, it’s daylight robbery with a side of saffron.
How do you charge luxury prices for food that barely covers half a plate? The portions are laughable, and the flavor doesn’t come close to justifying the bill. It feels like they’re banking on tourists or people too polite to call it what it is — a scam in plain sight.
To make it worse, the staff barely understand English, so trying to ask a question or clarify anything turns into a frustrating guessing game. At these prices, communication should not be a struggle.
Bottom line: this place preys on location, not quality. Skip it. There’s nothing special here except the size of the bill.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 2
Service: 1
Kayli
Amazing chai and welcoming service
Rajesh kumar
if you want to enjoy food, Make sure you go to washroom before entering retaurant, no washroom!!!!! Overall service was okay, but it lacked friendly faces or welcoming body language.
This may be a small spot, but the friendly staff, delicious food, and cozy atmosphere make it one of the best. Highly recommend, definitely coming back .
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Chithra Venkataramani
The restaurant looks small. But goes for the saying Don’t judge a book by its cover. Me and my parents went there for a late lunch almost 4pm. They had both veg and non veg buffet. We ordered separately. Roti, dal tadka, veg Hakka noodles and an chai. Everything taste so delicious. The attendant was very courteous, and polite. I recommend this place.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Priya Biradar
Very nice food. Indian Chinese and tea a must try
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Narayanan Srinivasan
We came in for an evening tea and were pleased with the quality of Chai. Saffron Cardamom Chai was absolutely amazing. Together with some Bhel Puri and Veg Samosa, couldn’t ask for a better evening snack in downtown Manhattan near the Brooklyn Bridge.
Since every restaurant in Manhattan is expensive, this is on the pricey side as well, given that they serve lunch buffet style. Their roti is delicious and their Punjabi style eggplant is a must. Overall excellent food.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 5
Best service
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Samosa
The feast portion is perfect for a student, it’s vegetables, a meat, and a bunch of delicious white rice for 13.75. The food was absolutely delicious and the staff were so friendly and helpful.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Delicious the food is fast and affordable! You can get a meal for $13! Got the Chicken Tika Masala eggplant and rice.
Garlic naan is delicious. Also tried the Papri chat and malai kofta very flavorful!
The workers are very nice
Food: 5
Service: 5
Net and clean restaurant. Good food. Nice serving.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 4
We used Saffron Thread for catering a few times now. The service and food are always top notch. Our guests were raving about everything, especially the aloo tikki chaat and mixed grill. Highly recommend!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Excellent food and service, I highly recommend! 👍🏼
A Saffron Thread on Chambers Street is a complete rip-off. The prices are outrageous for the microscopic portions they serve — it’s insulting, especially when people are already struggling to make ends meet. This isn’t fine dining, it’s daylight robbery with a side of saffron.
How do you charge luxury prices for food that barely covers half a plate? The portions are laughable, and the flavor doesn’t come close to justifying the bill. It feels like they’re banking on tourists or people too polite to call it what it is — a scam in plain sight.
To make it worse, the staff barely understand English, so trying to ask a question or clarify anything turns into a frustrating guessing game. At these prices, communication should not be a struggle.
Bottom line: this place preys on location, not quality. Skip it. There’s nothing special here except the size of the bill.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 2
Service: 1
Amazing chai and welcoming service
if you want to enjoy food, Make sure you go to washroom before entering retaurant, no washroom!!!!! Overall service was okay, but it lacked friendly faces or welcoming body language.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 2
Restaurantji Recommends
This may be a small spot, but the friendly staff, delicious food, and cozy atmosphere make it one of the best. Highly recommend,
definitely coming back .
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
The restaurant looks small. But goes for the saying Don’t judge a book by its cover. Me and my parents went there for a late lunch almost 4pm. They had both veg and non veg buffet. We ordered separately. Roti, dal tadka, veg Hakka noodles and an chai. Everything taste so delicious. The attendant was very courteous, and polite. I recommend this place.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Very nice food. Indian Chinese and tea a must try
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
We came in for an evening tea and were pleased with the quality of Chai. Saffron Cardamom Chai was absolutely amazing. Together with some Bhel Puri and Veg Samosa, couldn’t ask for a better evening snack in downtown Manhattan near the Brooklyn Bridge.
There’s no guest restroom in here though.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Food was tasty and friendly service.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 4
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