Swadist Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "They make amazing Indo Chinese and good Thai as well."
• "Food, very fresh and tasty."
• "Tastiest food, great service and good atmosphere."
• "The food was very very good, nan was fantastic, and the lamb cooked to perfection."
• "Ordered Baby Goat Masala, Chili Garlic Naan & Cheese Naan... The food was delicious."
• "One of the best butter chicken and lamb kebabs I've had in a while."
• "Every single dish was amazing. Food was fresh, tasty and yummy."

Cons:

• "I was missing chilly garlic flavor in noodles."
• "Even though the food is excellent, they have a terrible delivering service!"
• "The food was an utter shame to Indian, Indo-chinese and Thai cuisine."
• "Food quality is not good. We got all BURNT Naan also there is no salt in chicken kadai & Rice."
• "Paneer Tikka was chewy and rubbery, it was hard to chew and swallow."
• "Horrible food. Ordered Chicken Tikka Masala, the chicken quality was so bad, not a fillet, lots of skin and fat, disgusting."
• "Not even one non veg item was edible, it was hard and cold and had rotten taste."

Service

Pros:

• "Love the hospitality, atmosphere. The service is great. The staff are very welcoming."
• "Excellent service and would definitely recommend."
• "The staff was attentive, knowledgeable about the menu, and eager to make recommendations based on our preferences."
• "The owner personally came to check on us and make sure we had a great experience!!"
• "The service is phenomenal."
• "Also the staff is very polite and humble and they listen to your requirements and you get what you need."
• "The host was very friendly and attentive. She checked up on us regularly and helped us to choose our foods."

Cons:

• "The server picking my dishes didn't even notice most of the meat was on the plate and I didn't eat it, didn't ask why."
• "The service is quite slow, had to wait for more than half hour for food."
• "Service was a bit slow on Friday evening, many of tables serviced before ours."
• "The servants are also very rude and disrespectful."
• "Really good food, but one of the worst service."
• "Very pathetic experience with this restaurant. It took 1.15 hrs."
• "The staff was not polite & rude."

Ambiance

Pros:

• "Very homely ambiance. This shows they really do care about their food quality and get their customers feedback."
• "It's a family owned restaurant. The whole family works here."
• "Their seating ambience is definitely best among all the restaraunts in the area."
• "The ambience was warm and cozy."
• "The Hospitality of the owner and the staff is very warming."
• "Calm ambience. Very clean and tidy."
• "The ambiance was clean and calming with lofi Indian music!"

Cons:

• "We had been for the Sunday lunch buffet. The spread was smaller as compared to other Indian buffet places in Indian square. Not worth the price at all."
• "Could do better and investment to make the ambiance more appealing."
• "Ambience is too good and only problem we had noticed is restaurant is not spacious and parking is limited as street parking in Newark avenue."
• "I peeped thru the window and it's dirtier than a homeless encampment."
• "Ambiance was alright."
• "Restroom was not clean and smelly."
• "Unhygienic place to eat."

Pricing

Pros:

• "The pricing was quite reasonable too."
• "Great food, very good price."
• "And the prices are pretty reasonable."
• "The amount of food you get for the price is very reasonable."
• "Reasonable prices and if we could right now enjoy the AYCE buffet we would, so its A+ in my book."
• "Both veg and non veg buffet price is $19.99."
• "The place is clean (even the cloth linens smell good!), the portions are great, pricing spot on."

Cons:

• "They charge 15% gratuity in buffet without mentioning it anywhere."
• "Prices are too expensive."
• "So horrible that we left there with a $112 bill that already included a 18% gratuity and food on the table."
• "Prices were little higher than other food places in that area."
• "If it’s the restaurant taking away a share from the driver than this is not acceptable."
• "Just had Chinese food here this time, which was avg to good, had chicken Hakka noodles and drums of heaven which were nice but oriental chicken was not worth paying $13 in Taste or in quantity."
• "Used to order from them often for 3 years until recently since they won't believe me that they have delivered soggy papadum at least 3 times to me!!"