I was excited to try this place after the franklin park cocktail competition.
Got a margarita, a mule, the sweet potato chaat, saag, garlic naan and chili naan. Fellow diner got the pista sour and paan clouds and kofta.
The drinks have great profiles. My only gripe is that it is $14 for an immensely small amount of fluid. My mango mule was served in a comically tiny glass that had mostly ice in it, and I literally finished it in two small drinks. The taste though - fantastic.
The chaat was also very good and I recommend this shareable/starter type plate.
The entrees and naan were terrible. I requested spicy, and there weren't a lick of spice in anything. Both mains (kofta and saag) were shockingly bland, tiny amounts served on noisy textured plates. The saag is a blob of gooey baked feta in a bland green sauce. I did sense a small amount of a cinnamoney type flavor, but that's it. I do not recommend this type of cheese at all for saag.
The kofta was bizarre and actually tasted like unseasoned American breakfast gravy. The pale white stuff, but with no pepper or seasoning.
The bread was insulting. The chili naan is an $8 single piece of bread that honestly looks like a late-night drunk college student's microwave creation. A hardened, greasy piece of bread that someone put some type of yellow or orange cheese on it and it hardened. The garlic naan is a single piece of bread cut in half and served in a casket for precisely no reason.
Obviously we didn't eat it all, and I think I could help the gravies with some seasoning so I asked for togo boxes. They do not offer to box your items, you have to do it at your tiny table, shuffling the plates and glasses to try and make room.
Last, you have to have a cellphone to read the food menu because they don't have paper menus for food, only drinks. That should have been my warning, but I will say that a business that charges 8 bucks for a single piece of bread and $14 for 3 ounces of fluid can afford to print a paper menu for their patrons and box their takeaways.
While whoever is curating the drink profiles is clearly a wonderfully talented and skilled person, I don't recommend, unfortunately.
Giorgio Pereira
The not so good? One thing, and it stings.
The food, our server (Tony, he's cool as hell), the place? All great and fire.
The not so good. The host was friendly enough and the performative aspect of being a host task doesn't escape me. We had gone in there to celebrate a birthday, we went during happy hour and our host asked us if we were sitting at the bar or a table, we indicated table. This is where it goes horribly sideways. This was a Friday, the dining room was not buzzing or too busy. We ordered items from the happy hour menu, and yeah the food is straight fire and Tony our server was great. The issue arose when the bill came up; no happy hour menu pricing was applied and this is because we sat at a table. The host never explained the policy of bar sitting and happy hour pricing whereby sitting at a table is considered non happy hour seating. It is labeled in the menu available on the QR code, but the issue is that this is a Friday after work; the last place where I expect to look over my shoulder is in a hospitality setting and it burns because it feels as though we got taken for a ride. Will I come back? YES!
The food is great, the servers are awesome, the drinks are a direct competition to the food in a ranking sense and totally compliment each other, the policy is poorly explained and honestly kinda trash. Instead of happy hour we went to oh what the hell hour, knocks the place down quite a bit and it's a bummer.
(Service: 2 stars, Tony you get 5 though)
Madalyn Lynch
Food was excellent as always!! HOWEVER even though we went to Happy Hour and have been many times before and were given a happy hour menu apparently if you sit at a table and not the bar—you don’t get the half off drinks and appetizers—nearly doubling our bill. I wish the server or host would have informed us. This had never happened to us before today’s visit and it seems like a money grab/someone could/should have informed us of this updated policy that had never been an issue in the past.
Jeremy
hosted a corporate dinner there and had a fantastic experience - great food, great service. highly recommended.
Swathi Puskoori
We loved the food. Karina was really sweet and she recommended The lamb keema Hyderabadi which was fabbb. Overall a great experience
Morgan Yore
Steven was the best!
Chris Morris
Fun time for groups
Scott
Dinner was fantastic. Our server Marianne gave us great recommendations and we loved every one of them. I'm all in on progressive Indian food if it is like I had at Rooh.
Maestro Maestro
Worth a special trip - you won't be disappointed. Oddly, the best feature are the cocktails.
Kate
My lamb was amazing!!! Fell right off the bone! My server, Karina, was also amazing! She was so friendly and personable, I loved getting to chat with her!
Our group of 4 had a celebration dinner. We enjoyed unique cocktails, then shared 4 delicious small plates, followed by two mains. Each was a winner and although we had favorites, all dishes had flavor and would be ordered again. Service was attentive yet unobtrusive and the timing of the dishes was perfect. This was our second visit but we will not wait so long before returning again.
Paige
Food was amazing, we got butter chicken and biryani as well as the short rib koftas - all were delicious. Service was great, our food came quickly, our server was friendly and provided great suggestions. Would go back!
William
This is a very interesting restaurant. The food is excellent and the food is well flavored. The menu provides a variety of well thought out selections. The staff delivers best in class customer service and is particularly attentive. . We enjoyed our evening and I would highly recommend.
Andre
Wonderful service, very clean and comfortable. The food was delicious, the cocktails excellently crafted! Definitely going back soon!!
KatieC
Very good food which, IMHO, lives up to its “Progressive Indian” description. Dishes are lighter on the palate than you might expect from a more traditional Indian restaurant. Decor is a delightful departure from other High Street restaurants. I'm no interior design expert, but the color choices stand out to me and add to my enjoyment of the space. I imagine it is just the prices that keep this from being a regularly-bustling restaurant — but I'll be back :)
I was excited to try this place after the franklin park cocktail competition.
Got a margarita, a mule, the sweet potato chaat, saag, garlic naan and chili naan. Fellow diner got the pista sour and paan clouds and kofta.
The drinks have great profiles. My only gripe is that it is $14 for an immensely small amount of fluid. My mango mule was served in a comically tiny glass that had mostly ice in it, and I literally finished it in two small drinks. The taste though - fantastic.
The chaat was also very good and I recommend this shareable/starter type plate.
The entrees and naan were terrible. I requested spicy, and there weren't a lick of spice in anything. Both mains (kofta and saag) were shockingly bland, tiny amounts served on noisy textured plates. The saag is a blob of gooey baked feta in a bland green sauce. I did sense a small amount of a cinnamoney type flavor, but that's it. I do not recommend this type of cheese at all for saag.
The kofta was bizarre and actually tasted like unseasoned American breakfast gravy. The pale white stuff, but with no pepper or seasoning.
The bread was insulting. The chili naan is an $8 single piece of bread that honestly looks like a late-night drunk college student's microwave creation. A hardened, greasy piece of bread that someone put some type of yellow or orange cheese on it and it hardened. The garlic naan is a single piece of bread cut in half and served in a casket for precisely no reason.
Obviously we didn't eat it all, and I think I could help the gravies with some seasoning so I asked for togo boxes. They do not offer to box your items, you have to do it at your tiny table, shuffling the plates and glasses to try and make room.
Last, you have to have a cellphone to read the food menu because they don't have paper menus for food, only drinks. That should have been my warning, but I will say that a business that charges 8 bucks for a single piece of bread and $14 for 3 ounces of fluid can afford to print a paper menu for their patrons and box their takeaways.
While whoever is curating the drink profiles is clearly a wonderfully talented and skilled person, I don't recommend, unfortunately.
The not so good? One thing, and it stings.
The food, our server (Tony, he's cool as hell), the place? All great and fire.
The not so good. The host was friendly enough and the performative aspect of being a host task doesn't escape me. We had gone in there to celebrate a birthday, we went during happy hour and our host asked us if we were sitting at the bar or a table, we indicated table. This is where it goes horribly sideways. This was a Friday, the dining room was not buzzing or too busy. We ordered items from the happy hour menu, and yeah the food is straight fire and Tony our server was great. The issue arose when the bill came up; no happy hour menu pricing was applied and this is because we sat at a table. The host never explained the policy of bar sitting and happy hour pricing whereby sitting at a table is considered non happy hour seating. It is labeled in the menu available on the QR code, but the issue is that this is a Friday after work; the last place where I expect to look over my shoulder is in a hospitality setting and it burns because it feels as though we got taken for a ride. Will I come back? YES!
The food is great, the servers are awesome, the drinks are a direct competition to the food in a ranking sense and totally compliment each other, the policy is poorly explained and honestly kinda trash. Instead of happy hour we went to oh what the hell hour, knocks the place down quite a bit and it's a bummer.
(Service: 2 stars, Tony you get 5 though)
Food was excellent as always!! HOWEVER even though we went to Happy Hour and have been many times before and were given a happy hour menu apparently if you sit at a table and not the bar—you don’t get the half off drinks and appetizers—nearly doubling our bill. I wish the server or host would have informed us. This had never happened to us before today’s visit and it seems like a money grab/someone could/should have informed us of this updated policy that had never been an issue in the past.
hosted a corporate dinner there and had a fantastic experience - great food, great service. highly recommended.
We loved the food. Karina was really sweet and she recommended The lamb keema Hyderabadi which was fabbb. Overall a great experience
Steven was the best!
Fun time for groups
Dinner was fantastic. Our server Marianne gave us great recommendations and we loved every one of them. I'm all in on progressive Indian food if it is like I had at Rooh.
Worth a special trip - you won't be disappointed. Oddly, the best feature are the cocktails.
My lamb was amazing!!! Fell right off the bone! My server, Karina, was also amazing! She was so friendly and personable, I loved getting to chat with her!
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Our group of 4 had a celebration dinner. We enjoyed unique cocktails, then shared 4 delicious small plates, followed by two mains. Each was a winner and although we had favorites, all dishes had flavor and would be ordered again. Service was attentive yet unobtrusive and the timing of the dishes was perfect. This was our second visit but we will not wait so long before returning again.
Food was amazing, we got butter chicken and biryani as well as the short rib koftas - all were delicious. Service was great, our food came quickly, our server was friendly and provided great suggestions. Would go back!
This is a very interesting restaurant. The food is excellent and the food is well flavored. The menu provides a variety of well thought out selections. The staff delivers best in class customer service and is particularly attentive. . We enjoyed our evening and I would highly recommend.
Wonderful service, very clean and comfortable. The food was delicious, the cocktails excellently crafted! Definitely going back soon!!
Very good food which, IMHO, lives up to its “Progressive Indian” description. Dishes are lighter on the palate than you might expect from a more traditional Indian restaurant. Decor is a delightful departure from other High Street restaurants. I'm no interior design expert, but the color choices stand out to me and add to my enjoyment of the space. I imagine it is just the prices that keep this from being a regularly-bustling restaurant — but I'll be back :)
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