Chowpatty Restaurant Reviews Summary
Category: Indian restaurant Iselin, Woodbridge Township, NJ
Service
Pros:
- "Jeetu ji is the star of Chowpatty! He served us like we were in India!!"
- "Hats off to the small cap guy for his exceptional service."
- "Great service and amazing food."
- "They are very cordial and accommodating."
- "Feeding 500 people is no easy task yet Chowpatty did it so seamlessly."
- "The team expressed enthusiasm to give us the best experience we could ask for during one of the most important weekends of our lives."
- "Staff is always friendly and humble."
Cons:
- "Extremely rude to my wife and her friends."
- "Unbelievably rude!"
- "Service was slow and staff was less talkative."
- "Very unpleasant experience! Dint serve us just tea on the table for a party of 5 because it was weekend!"
- "They have a server who is so rude, not even trying to listen what the order is or so."
- "The waiter wasn't very helpful when I asked questions."
- "BAD Customer service."
Cleanliness
Pros:
- "Very clean."
- "The place is clean and effort is maintained to keep it clean."
- "Restaurant was clean."
- "Place was clean and safe for outdoor dining during Covid era."
- "Store is clean and appealing."
- "Place was very clean."
- "Not only this place is hygienic but food is consistently good compared to others."
Cons:
- "Also, they could do better with keeping the place clean."
- "Used their rest room, they were not hygienic."
- "Place was not very clean, tables were sticky."
- "People use their bare hand to make and serve food. So gross!"
- "We even found a hair in our food, but when we told the staff, we didn't get any response."
- "In all the food had some kind of weird smell!!!"
- "Used their rest room, they were not hygienic."
Food Quality
Pros:
- "Sweets are good and they have wide variety of sweets."
- "The puri was great, as it was the size of a meatball and very crispy."
- "Gujarati Thali, Lunch Special and Corn Kachoris were mouth watering."
- "Love chowpathy thalis. Amazing taste. Punjabi thalis are too good."
- "Their food was amazing to boot."
- "The food was good."
- "The food was quite tasty."
Cons:
- "Ragda pattice is not worth the price."
- "Felt like chole bhature is made of old used oil and not fresh."
- "Low quality food.. Not freshly made."
- "The stuffing for the panipuri was stale and unappetizing."
- "The gathiyas then have a very dirty oil smell."
- "Food was not good at all."
- "Hakka noodles were super oily and smelly."
Ambiance
Pros:
- "The restaurant vibe was good."
- "The ambiance is also so cute - love the feel of being in India with the cool truck style kitchen - must come see."
- "Loved the ambiance and interior is very interesting."
- "The ambience was welcoming, wait staff was accommodating, and the decor is beautiful inside."
- "Colorful interiors with amazing murals."
- "Very colorful and beautiful interiors."
- "The interior has a casual and festive street fair vibe."
Cons:
- "The atmosphere was very quiet. It definitely needed some soft music to liven up the vibe in the restaurant."
- "Biggest challenge is parking spots."
- "All of them provide only the Indian names of the dish and no description of what it contains."
- "Finding a street parking was such a pain in the super busy Oak tree road."
- "Parking is an issue. You have to park your car in other block as it has a street parking which is always hard to get."
- "Says it has outdoor seating on Google... But doesn't actually have outdoor seating, none!!!"
- "Also they don't have parking for their customers."
Value
Pros:
- "Chowpatty had excellent service and fair pricing."
- "Nice food, good for evening snacks. Reasonable price."
- "Prices are also competitive."
- "A good one among tons of options available on oak tree road... reasonable price and good quality food."
- "Price was reasonable."
- "Overall good place. Visible from road, they don’t have parking space."
- "Highly recommend."
Cons:
- "They should have a time limit on photos. We waited 20 minutes to take 3 pictures."
- "Awful service, very small portions, and too expensive for the price."
- "I am deeply disappointed as the sweets were not fresh and were hard and dry."
- "The prices are ridiculously high and food quality is not up to the mark of price points."
- "For just 2 plates of Panipuri I spent a whopping $23."
- "Too pricey for the area."
- "But price is high for the quantity."
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