Chef Of India Reviews Summary

Category: Indian restaurant Jersey City, New Jersey

Address: 324 Central Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07307, USA

Phone: +12018395055

Rating: 3.7
based on 255 reviews.

Food Quality

Pros:

  • "Delicious food! Good variety of both vegetarian and non vegetarian dishes."
  • "The pieces in Goat Biryani were very tender and the spices were well balanced."
  • "The biryani was so delicious it was almost similar to the taste I've experienced in Hyderabad loved it."
  • "This place serves the best chicken dum biryani by far, the flavors were beautiful and species were all right."
  • "The food was really delicious and completely worth the price rather I found prices cheaper."
  • "The food is really really good. We ordered chicken biryani and it was very delicious."
  • "Food is good. If you are looking for authentic Indian taste this is the place."

Cons:

  • "Worst food. Have ordered chicken chilly & paneer tikka masala, the gravy was watery it felt like they just added butter in the tomato puree without any flavor."
  • "The samosas were burnt on the outside and the filling was over cooked and bland."
  • "Horrible food quality. I found plastic pieces in soup and hair in biriyani."
  • "The most horrible biryani I have ever eaten."
  • "The worst and dirtiest place I've ever seen."
  • "Malai kofta was entirely spoilt."
  • "The most horrible food I have ever tasted in my life !!! Ordered malai kofta and bread, couldn’t even take a bite !!"

Customer Service

Pros:

  • "would highly recommend to restaurant jst for customer attention and the freshness"
  • "People who work there are really nice and humble and they always try to make sure you are happy with the food."
  • "Our server was awesome, Brindra."
  • "Great food and friendly staff made our day. Food was hot and freshly cooked."
  • "Very friendly people who love to serve great food."
  • "Service was so nice with good manners and friendly."
  • "Friendly customer service. Quick delivery."

Cons:

  • "Chef of India restaurant worst experience ever - ruined my son’s birthday party."
  • "The person who spoke to me was very rude and the customer service is very bad!"
  • "Went for a dine in and realised the place was awful and filled with fruit flies. The ambiance is utterly bad."
  • "This place should be shut down."
  • "The receptionist is also arrogant."
  • "The waiter a bit rude and thinking whether to allow to sit there or not."
  • "The staff (female) was very rude and walked away while I was still talking."

Delivery & Packaging

Pros:

  • "I almost always get my delivery on time and if it’s late the delivery guy would call and apologise and let me know."
  • "They delivered on time and the food was piping hot with perfect combination of freshness & flavor."
  • "And the delivery guy was well before time and was so kind to walk up four floors to deliver my food."
  • "Food was always delicious and delivery was very quick."
  • "They are, without a doubt, the fastest delivery place I have ever ordered from."
  • "Even after 20 mins of getting it delivered the food was extremely warm. Well made and fresh !!"
  • "A definite recommendation to everyone."

Cons:

  • "They don't even care for packing the correct items when placed through postmates."
  • "The delivery guy from the restaurant (not third party service provider) denied to leave it at the door and told to come pick it up from his car."
  • "Worst delivery experience ever."
  • "Cooking chefs don’t tie hair and it falls in your food. Scammers!"
  • "They got my order wrong twice."
  • "Cancelled an uber order less than a minute after placing... Called restaurant and they said they can't issue refund."
  • "Called them for 6 times to order food. Been on hold for 20 mins. After an hour they said they have issues with the delivery guy and couldn’t deliver the food."

Hygiene & Cleanliness

Pros:

  • "The food was fabulous! So impressed, very tasty, fresh and plenty."
  • "Food is fresh, even if delivered its hot and fresh, use of spices is immaculate and to the point."
  • "Food was very very delicious and fresh."
  • "The food was fantastic and the service was great! My family came here for a birthday and were very happy with our experience."
  • "The food was amazing! Cheap and huge portions."
  • "Really good food and they are super friendly."
  • "Please please do not order anything from here! The food is extremely hygienic."

Cons:

  • "Huge chunks of broken plastic forks and spoons in the food."
  • "Hair in the food."
  • "We found pieces of hair in our food and rats 🐀 running in and out of the kitchen door."
  • "I found a piece of wire from a dish washing sponge in my rice."
  • "I am found a fingernail in my Briyanni."
  • "A plastic bag properly cooked and melted into the biryani."
  • "There was a cockroach in my Mushroom biryani it was a to go order."

Value for Money

Pros:

  • "And on top of all these perks you satisfy your craving for indian food in budget..."
  • "Pakka home style food. I love food from this restaurant it's delicious, quality with reasonable prices."
  • "Chef of India has always offered delicious and diverse Indian cuisine at affordable prices."
  • "Very good quanty of food for the price."
  • "Good quality foods at reasonable prices."
  • "Food is very authentic and very reasonable pricing."
  • "Mostly come here for Biriyani and after 10 pm as they offer buy one get one free option at $12 which is worthy."

Cons:

  • "Not only is it expensive (about $70 total), not only are the portions small, BUT they continually food poison people!"
  • "The meal cost was overpriced and I would not recommend."
  • "But we didn't like the mandatory 18% tip added to the bill."
  • "Tried their unlimited chicken lunch and frankly speaking not enjoyed at all."
  • "The food was actually very good! I ordered the dum chicken biryani and potatoes dosa and both were totally on point."
  • "Unfortunately, the ten dollar delivery charge and a 30$ mean for chicken biryani that had two pieces of meat was not worth it."
  • "$60 wasted on horrible food that went in trash!"

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